Nathalie Berger,a Bertrand Dubreucq,a François Roudier,b Christian Dubos,a and Loı̈c Lepinieca,1 a Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique–Agro-ParisTech, Saclay Plant Sciences, 78026 Versailles cedex, France b Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche...

We use recent data on transport costs in West Africa, including the added burden of bribes and enforced delays, to show how such costs represent a deterrent to investment in — and therefore the sustainability of — agricultural assets. We focus on data for two important tree crops in West Africa, cashew and shea. We also have data for the transport of onions between Niger and the urban market in...

Jeneberang Basin is situated in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In the recent years, the function of this basin could not be performed optimally in maintaining sustainability hydrologic function of Jeneberang dam. Therefore, in order to maintain the hydrologic function of the dam, it is necessary to formulate suitable landuse at upstream of the river basin. This research is objected to formulate pol...

Lignocellulose in the form of forestry, agricultural, and agro-industrial wastes is accumulated in large quantities every year. These materials are mainly composed of three groups of polymers, namely cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Cellulose and hemicellulose are sugar rich fractions of interest for use in fermentation processes, since microorganisms may use the sugars for growth and prod...

Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) are lethal parasites of insects, used as biocontrol agents. The objectives of this work were to survey the presence of EPN in continental Portugal and to characterize the different species. Of the 791 soil samples collected throughout continental Portugal, 53 were positive for EPN. Steinernema feltiae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora were the two most abundant ...

* Corresponding author This study was partly carried out in the framework of the project “Using satellite images for automatic mapping of forest clear cuts and new plantations” (Project number 130), funded by Programa AGRO, Medida 8 – Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Demonstração, Acção 8.1 – Desenvolvimento Experimental e Demonstração (DE&D) Abstract – The launch, in recent years, of several very...

An extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was applied by means of Structural Equation Modelling to testing various hypotheses on attitudes and intentions of dairy farmers towards three novel sustainable production strategies, as well as the influence of organic practices and collaborative behaviours, such as information sharing with supply-chain partners. Data on the acceptan...

considering the current upward drift in farm use all over the world, the russian agro-food market has immense possibilities to create such economic conditions under which the farming sector could develop dynamically. the increase in the grain production is of crucial importance for all agricultural branches. in this respect, the grain sector is russia’s strategically significant economic segmen...