Through the European controversy over agricultural biotechnology, genetically modified (GM) crops have been evaluated for an increasingly wide range of potential effects. As the experimental phase has been extended into commercial practices, the terms for product approval have become more negotiable and contentious. To analyse the regulatory conflicts, this paper links three theoretical perspec...

ion and Modelling of Agri-Food Chains as Complex Decision Making Systems Kim P. Bryceson and Carl S. Smith, School of Natural and Rural Systems Management University of Queensland, Gatton, Qld 4343 [email protected]

Michael F. O’Neill1,2*, George M. Leigh3, You-Gan Wang4, J. Matı́as Braccini5, and Matthew C. Ives6 Agri-Science Queensland, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Maroochy Research Facility, PO Box 5083 SCMC, Nambour, Queensland, 4560, Australia School of Geographic Planning and Environmental Management, and Centre for Applications in Natural ResourceMathematics (CARM) in the School...

Fast Bayesian Choice of Phylogenetic Models: Prospecting Data Augmentation–Based Thermodynamic Integration NICOLAS RODRIGUE1,2,3,∗ AND STÉPHANE ARIS-BROSOU1,4 1Department of Biology and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5; 2Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, 1205 Drive, Penfield Ave...

Please cite this article in press as: Potter, A., et al., Trends in product re Republic of Ireland, Trends in Food Science & Technology (2012), ht Trends in product recalls within the agri-food industry: Empirical evidence from the USA, UK and the Republic of Ireland Antony Potter*, Jason Murray, Benn Lawson and Stephanie Graham Queen’s University Management School, Queen’s University Belfast, ...

The agricultural reform in Hungary broke the previously vertically integrated agri-food system in different lines. The structures in agriculture, food industry and food retailing have fundamentally changed. These changes have also influenced the vertical governance structures in agri-food sector. The aim of this paper is to investigate the choice of farmers among various supply channels in Hung...

i Contents Executive Summary iii 1. Introduction 1 1.1 The origins of agri-environment policy in England 1 1.2 The England Rural Development Programme 2 1.3 The context of this evaluation 3 2.

based on existence of the chromite deposits in the sistan and baluchestan province in iran, and also various applications of chromite in different industries, it is expected that the establishment of chromite processing plant is required in the erelong. the geographical location of a processing plant can have a strong influence on the success of an industrial venture. the processing plant site ...

the effect of membrane molecular weight cut off (mwco) at three levels (10, 20 & 50 kd) on dynamic behavior of permeate flux (jp), hydraulic resistances (total hydraulic resistance, rt; reversible fouling resistance, rrf; irreversible fouling resistance, rif and membrane hydraulic resistance, rm) and milk solutes rejection (protein, rp; fat, rf; lactose, rl; minerals, rm and total solids, r...