By all accounts, the proness of the Merhabete people to recurrent, and sometimes colossal, food shortages has had several interlocking sources, including maladministration, untimely execution of government policies, unsuccessful handling of issues of land reform, environmental bankruptcy and the unprecedented intensity of the "grain drain", resulting from rapid soil erosion, over-cultivation, d...

INTRODUCTION The manure policy is one of the most important environmental policies in the Flemish agricultural sector. The first version of the manure decree was introduced in 1991 as a result of the introduction of the European Nitrate directive (91/676/EEC). The goal is to protect groundand surface water against nitrogen pollution out of agricultural sources. Since its introduction, the manur...

International conflict over agricultural regulation continues after more than six years to threaten to destroy the whole Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and with it an agreement that greatly extends corporate power relative to national (and public) power. Paradoxically, the deadlock has been caused by a type of national regulation of agriculture whose days ar...

Children comprise a significant portion of the agricultural workforce and are exposed to many workplace hazards, including farm machinery, pesticides, poor field sanitation, unsafe transportation, and fatigue from doing physically demanding work for long periods. Migrant farmworker children face the additional hazard of substandard or nonexistent housing in the fields. Children account for a di...

Diet includes many risk factors for the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs), but diets consumed in Europe and in other parts of the developed world are not being modified sufficiently to take account of health priorities concerning, in particular, the prevention of NCDs, while much excess mortality and morbidity could be prevented by government actions to regulate appropriately both th...

he careless application of technology and poor planning have had deteriorating effects on the economy, agricultural production and social structure in iran. the country, where the exportation of excess agricultural production brought a major portion of her income some 20 years ago, had to import more than 75 per cent of the food needs of her prople in recent years. some national plans or major ...