More than a billion people have limited access to safe drinking water; over 2 million die each year from water-related diarrhea, which is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in less economically developed countries (UNICEF and WHO, 2009). In more economically developed countries, increasing demands on water resources raise concerns about sustainable provision of safe drinking w...

ICT can be a potential solution in order to cover agricultural professionals' lifelong learning needs. An application area of particular interest is the one of digital learning repositories (DLRs). These are online databases where digital learning resources are systematically organised and classified. In such repositories, educational metadata play an important role since they allow the descrip...

For professionals at the beginning of the 21st century, much of the conventional wisdom on business management and engineering is founded in the 20th century industrial / manufacturing paradigm. In developed economies, however, the service sector now dominates the manufacturing sector, just as manufacturing prevailed over the agricultural sector after the industrial revolution. This chapter pro...

Internet usage is growing rapidly among agricultural producers and processors, but little attention has been paid to the advantages of agribusiness firms using the Internet as an information exchange with other firms, such as input suppliers. A case study of a beef processor using the Internet to deliver information to input suppliers is presented to illustrate possible information transfer eff...

The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to high rates of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and some cancers. Affluent citizens in middle- and low-income countries are adopting similar high-meat diets and experiencing increased rates of these same chronic diseases. T...

this comment on professor fotaki’s editorial agrees with her arguments that training health professionals in more compassionate, caring and ethically sound care will have little value unless the system in which they work changes. it argues that for system change to occur, senior management, government members and civil servants themselves need training so that they learn to understand the effec...

conclusions the monitoring of at-risk groups like seasonal migratory farmworkers is necessary to strengthen the healthcare service provided to this population. objectives this study aimed to determine the prevalence of hbv infection and associated risk factors in the reproductive-age female farmworker. materials and methods this cross-sectional study was conducted between january and april 2013...