Searching The authors searched 19 electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, BIOSIS Previews, Dissertation Abstracts, DARE and the Cochrane Library (up to October 1997) using a detailed search strategy listed in three appendices to the review. This was supplemented by a handsearch of five specialist wound care journals, twelve conference proceedings and systematic reviews held on D...

Correct default risk classification of an issuer is a critical factor. Practitioners and academics alike agree on this. Thus, under the supervision of financial experts, significant resources of investment advisory companies are used for this task. Researchers, both theoretical and empirical ones, are not the exception either. Nowadays, many methodological and technical advances allow support f...

The meeting of phosphorus recycling organised in the frame of the ANR Phosph’OR research project by MidiPyrénées Innovation brought together scientists, industry, water companies and agricultural organisations to exchange on perspectives for recovery of phosphorus from waste streams, and market and agronomic criteria for distribution and reuse of recycled phosphorus as fertilisers according to ...

This paper discusses the significance of voluntary arrangements for the water and agricultural policies in the European Union. The current implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) require new approaches in water management. As many case studies have shown, co-operative agreements (CAs) between water companies, farmers ...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...

The Agricultural Act of 2014 solidified insurance as the cornerstone of U.S. agricultural policy. The Congressional Budget Office (2014) estimates this Act will increase spending on agricultural insurance programs by $5.7 billion to a total of $89.8 billion over the next decade. In 2014, total government liabilities associated with the crop insurance program exceeded $108.5 billion. In light of...

Maintaining drinking water quality is essential to water companies and their customers. However, agricultural non-point source pollution of waterways is a major cause of water quality degradation. In this paper we examine the feasibility of using payments financed by a water company to pay farmers to adjust agricultural land management practices to protect water quality. We use the choice exper...

In Sweden there is a joint focus on injury prevention in agriculture and this is coordinated through the Swedish Committee on Working Environment (LAMK). LAMK is a network working for a good, healthy and safe working environment in Swedish agriculture from the view of the enterprise with the humans in focus. It is a committee consisting of representatives of authorities, institutions, companies...