The historical record shows that neither state-led nor market-led land reform models have been successful in removing these inequities. In response to this problem, this Policy Research Brief draws primarily on a UNDP-ISS supported set of country studies and analytical papers in order to point toward an alternative model of land reform that could both satisfy legitimate and urgent demands for s...

Marı́a J. Salgueiro, Bioch, Marcela B. Zubillaga, PhD, Alexis E. Lysionek, Pharm, Marı́a I. Sarabia, Pharm, Ricardo A. Caro, PhD, Tomás De Paoli, PhD, Alfredo Hager, PhD, Eduardo Ettlin, Pharm, Ricardo Weill, Eng, and José R. Boccio, Bioch From the Radioisotope Laboratory and the Physics Department, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires; and the Agrarian Industries Depar...

Exemplifed by the “Neetzower Agrarhof Peenetal Ltd.”, a farmstead with arable ground of 1.740 hectares (approx. 4.350 acres), the status and extend of application of modern information and communication technologies in an agricultural large-scale enterprise is represented. Since 1998 the enterprise uses appropriate technologies for precision farming and automated process recording for significa...

Received 15/4/2009 Accepted 23/1/2010 (004164) 1 Veterinary Toxicology and Toxic Plants Laboratory, Preventive Veterinary Medicine Department, Agrarian Sciences Center, State University of Londrina, Rod. Celso Garcia Cid, s/n, Km 445, Bairro Perobal, CP 6001, CEP 86051-990, Londrina, PR, Brazil, E-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding autor Determination of presence and quantification of cadmium, ...

During the last 50 years, mechanization of the rural environment, and more recently the Common Agricultural Policy have led to deep changes in the agrarian landscapes across Europe, and with special relevancy in the case of mediterranean landscapes (Pinto-Correia et al., 2004). In the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a small area of enclosures landscape persists as a relict of what had been...