Immediately after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, a team of 40-50 researchers at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo began to analyze the behavior of radioactive materials in the fallout regions. The fallout has remained in situ and become strongly adsorbed within the soil over time. 137Cs was found to bind strongly to the fine clay, weat...

Many new agricultural automation technologies are being developed by university researchers that pose questions about the efficiency and effectiveness with which we carry out current agricultural practices. This has given rise to many new opportunities to service the agronomic requirements albeit in radically different ways to those currently used. This paper sets out 41 concepts relating to th...

Studies of how carbon reduction policies would affect agricultural production have found that there is a connection between carbon emissions and irrigation. Using county level data we develop an optimization model that accounts for the gross carbon emitted during the production process to evaluate how carbon reducing policies applied to agriculture would affect the choices of what to plant and ...

The Together for Agricultural Safety project is a community-based social marketing project working to reduce the adverse health effects of pesticide exposure among fernery and nursery workers in Florida. In 3 years, the collaboration between university and community researchers has embodied many of the principles of community-based research while completing multiple stages of formative data col...

Investment in research is indeed a "rational" investment. Thesis issues and projects in highereducation are the sources of research at educational institutions and have an evident role in helpingprofessionals and researchers. However, lack of fit scientific methods along with the ignorance ofthe proper processes of science has somewhat diminished the importance of research. This studypoints out...

Agricultural water may contact fresh produce during irrigation and/or when crop protection sprays (e.g., cooling to prevent sunburn, frost protection, and agrochemical mixtures) are applied. This document provides a framework for designing research studies that would add to our understanding of preharvest microbial food safety hazards and control measures pertaining to agricultural water. Rese...

Researchers are currently refining the concept and theory of trust to focus on identifying the bases of trust within specific domains. This paper examines the development of trust within the domain of agricultural water policy, where trust is a critical resource for solving collective action problems. The analysis uses data from a mail survey of farmers in agricultural water policy to integrate...

Researchers are currently developing new value-added uses for almond shells, an abundant agricultural by-product. Almond varieties are distinguished by processors as being either hard or soft shelled, but these two broad classes of almond also exhibit varietal diversity in shell morphology and physical characters. By defining more precisely the physical and chemical characteristics of almond sh...

1 ETSIA (School of Agricultural Engineering) of Seville University, Agroforestry Science Department, Ctra. Utrera km.1, 41013, Seville, Spain 2 IFAPA (Andalusia Institute of Agricultural Research and Training), Economy and Sociology Department, Camino de Purchil”, Apdo. 2027, 18080 Granada, Spain Abstract: In Spain there is a great variety of goat production systems, from the most traditional m...

One out of four jobs in agriculture, food and natural resources (AFNR) are in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), yet the integration of AFNR and STEM education are typically conducted independently within their respective domains (e.g., agriculture education or science education). Teachers play an important role in helping students learn, and literature supports a consiste...