We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we construct two indexes reflectin...

The Farmers of the Future (FoF) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. The purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of FoF programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the FoF programme and those not involved. Fur...

Three new cyclopentenone derivatives from Actinoalloteichus nanshanensis NEAU 119 Xiang-Jing Wang, Ji Zhang, Ping-Ting Qian, Ji-Dong Wang, Chong-Xi Liu & Wen-Sheng Xiang a Key Laboratory of Agriculture Biological Functional Gene of Heilongjiang Provincial Education Committee, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China b Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Taizhou 318000, China ...

1. This document is ENY-830 (formerly NFREC21), one of a series of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, Florida Cooperative Extensin Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Date first printed: unknown. Revised: June 2005. Reviewed: June 2008. Please visit the EDIS Website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Richard Sprenkel, professor emeritus, Departmen...

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 2 China Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 3 Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of Education Ministry of China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China, 4 C...

Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China (Z.Yi., Z.Z., D.D., Q.G., Y.W., Z.Ya., Y.B., C.X.); National Center for Soybean Improvement, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Ch...

1 Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 USA 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430 USA 3 Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 4 Laboratory of Plant Patholog...

This article presents a strategy for integrating community service learning with community development. It builds upon two methods in rural development: needs assessment and incorporating public schools in the development process. The strategy provides a way to have a valid needs assessment using survey research and at the same time keep costs low and involvement of local people high. It also p...

The management of agricultural education faces on-going challenges to deliver current and effective materials in an approach that takes advantage of developments in education technology. In this article the use of blended learning was compared with the traditional approach for the instruction of theoretical materials in agricultural education. This study used a pre-test, post-test experimental ...