China’s legal system governing fisheries in China has been stable during development. In line with national conditions and the spirit of times, they have adhered to concept green development maintaining sustainable fishery production activities. Studying history Chinese law is beneficial for world understand evolution this legislation a better gateway characteristics. Fishery, context, refers f...

It is argued that from the viewpoint of efficiency, agriculture should not be taxed relative to other sectors, and neither should it be favored. Nevertheless, developing countries have traditionally taxed the agricultural sector while developed countries have protected it, and both have incurred efficiency losses. Based on Schiff and Valdes (1992), it was shown that the taxation of agriculture ...

Abbreviations: BRAD: US EPA Biopesticides Registration Action Document, EA: Environmental Assessment, EC: European Commission, EPA: US Environmental Protection Agency, FAO: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, FDA: US Food and Drug Administration, FFDCA: Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, GE: genetically engineered, MRID: Master Re...

Production agriculture in Rural America has two major problems. The first is that it has long-term excess productive capacity at acceptable prices. The second, accentuated by the recent change in Federal farm program policy, is widely fluctuating prices with their resulting “boom and bust” cycles. These severely damage the economies of communities in which production agriculture provides the ma...

Biofortification of staple crops has been proposed as a strategy to address micronutrient malnutrition, particularly with respect to insufficient intake of vitamin A, iron, zinc, and folate. The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences, convened...

a r t i c l e i n f o The forest sector can contribute to atmospheric greenhouse gas reduction, while also providing other environmental, economic, and social benefits. Policy tools for climate change mitigation include carbon-related payment programs as well as laws and programs to impede the loss of agricultural and forest lands to development. Policy makers will base their expectations of th...

Recently, there has been an increased amount of attention dedicated to WS-Policy it has become a W3C submission and a working group was formed to standardize the specification. In our previous work, we provided a mapping of WS-Policy to OWL-DL. In this paper, we continue that work by analyzing the operation of policy intersection (determining whether two web service policies are compatible). We...

The research problem is based on the increasing global environmental pollution, reduction of natural potential countries, and importance exploration effective measures for solution these issues. analyzes impact taxes as an policy instrument helping reduce pollution increase agriculture. Environmental are one most important tools GHG emissions in EU. aim to theoretically substantiate role mitiga...

Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different types of groups in society, and affects these groups’ influence in policy-making. We use data on agricultural policy from 67 countries, spanning a wide range of ...