Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

Sustainability has recently become a buzzword for agricultural programs in education, extension, research, and government policy. For effective communications among those teaching, studying, and practicing agriculture, it is essential that there be some agreement as to the definition of the term sustainable agriculture. The definition should be general enough to accommodate th wide range of agr...

1 Department of Crop and Soil Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, 2 Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pullman, WA, United States, 3 Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, 4 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington St...

EC1763 How Windbreaks Work EC1764 Windbreak Establishment EC1766 Windbreaks for Livestock Operations EC1767 Windbreaks for Rural Living EC1768 Windbreak Management EC1770 Windbreak for Snow Management EC1771 Windbreaks and Wildlife EC1772 Windbreaks in Sustainable Agricultural Systems EC1777 Windbreak Renovation EC1778 Field Windbreaks EC1779 Windbreaks for Fruit and Vegetable Crops University ...

founded in 1970 as the Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation. It is an independent, not-for profit, environmental law and policy research and education organization. Over the last 15 years, CIELAP has been involved extensively in environmental law and policy development related to biotechnology. In 1984, CIELAP organized the first conference in Canada on environmental law and policy is...

It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally balanced by migrations. This conclusion has major consequences for biodiversity conservation in fragmented tropical forests and the agricultural matrices in which they are embedded. Here we make the argument that the conservation ...

internationally, employability has recently become an increasingly controversial issue in higher education. the emergence of knowledge-based economies, accompanied by the by-products of globalization, has forced agricultural higher education systems all around the world to think twice about the quantity and quality of their courses. on one hand, there has been a surplus of highly educated gradu...

extended abstract 1. introduction more than one decade has passed since the significant and extensive emergence of organic agricultural concepts on international level. rapid and serious loss of vital agricultural resources due to erosion, salinization of land, desertification, extinction of species and environmental pollution is among the world's major concerns. the main cause of such a concer...