Internet cannot provide perfect information services for farmers in rural regions in China, because farmers in rural regions can hardly access the internet by now. But the wide coverage of mobile signal, telephone line, and television network, etc. gave us a chance to solve the problem. The integrated pest management platform of Northern fruit trees were developed based on the integrated techno...

* Silvina M. Cabrini ([email protected]) is a Graduate Research Assistant for the AgMAS Project in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Scott H. Irwin is the Laurence J. Norton Professor of Agricultural Marketing and Darrel L. Good is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illin...

The expansion of pollinator-dependent crops, especially in the developing world, together with reports of worldwide pollinator declines, raises concern of possible yield gaps. Farmers directly reliant on pollination services for food supply often live in regions where our knowledge of pollination services is poor. In a manipulative experiment replicated at 23 sites across an Ethiopian agricultu...

the state agricultural extension system (saes) due to serious limitations of finance, equipment and staff could not meet all the expectation of the farmers. use of unemployed young graduates' services as consultant, farm manager or farm supervisor has been considered as a solution to the problem and as an alternative, in recent years. this research was aimed at an evaluation of the extensi...

Moderne Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien ermöglichen die Vernetzung unterschiedlichster Aktoren und Sensoren. Das bewirkt bei Produktionsprozessen einen immensen Mehrwert, da verschiedenste Teilprozesse durch eine übergeordnete Regeleinheit und eine Vielfalt von neuartigen Daten optimiert werden können. Speziell in der Landwirtschaft bedeutet dieser Mehrwert vor allem höhere Erträge, ...

Scott M. Swinton⁎, Frank Lupi, G. Philip Robertson, Stephen K. Hamilton Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, United States W.K...

Nomads and pastoralists represent around 30% of the population of North East zone of Somalia (Puntland) and have very limited access to basic health including immunization. During the 2013-2014 polio outbreak in Somalia, an increase number of polio cases notified health services among these underserved communities highlighted the urgent need to devise innovative strategies to reach them. Harnes...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org F covers more than 35% of Earth’s ice-free terrestrial area, and agriculture is expanding and intensifying in many regions to meet the growing demands of human populations (FAO 2013). This trend threatens biodiversity and the ecosystem services on which agriculture depends, including crop pollination (Garibaldi et al. 2011a). Indeed...