Ryo Sugiura , Shogo Tsuda , Seiji Tamiya , Atsushi Itoh , Kentaro Nishiwaki , Noriyuki Murakami , Yukinori Shibuya , Masayuki Hirafuji , Stephen Nuske c a Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 9-4 Shinseiminami, Memuro, Kasai, Hokkaido 082-0081, Japan b Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai...

What does this article offers? It raises questions on the assumptions of efficiency in agriculture, traces the history of the logic of scale replacing logic of scope, analyses its impact on sustainability and offers a framework to discern technical contradictions of efficiency across different sectors and find a balance for sustainability. It delves with a few basic questions: First, what is th...

World cereal production and utilization The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 1975) analysed production and consumption of cereals in 1970 and estimated corresponding values for 1980, 1985 and 1990 (Fig. I). In 1970, livestock ate more than 60% of the cereals consumed in the developed countries but less than 1070 of those consumed in the rest of the world. By 1990 these pro...

Although tropical forests cover only 6% of Earth's arable surface, they account for nearly 50% of all known species (National Research Council, 1992). Despite this diversity, these systems are increasingly threatened, as exemplified by a recent Food and Agriculture Organization report (FAa, 1999) which indicates that tropical countries are losing 127,300 km2 of forest annually; this does not co...

Agriculture remains a sensitive issue during multilateral trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization (WTO). Similar problems arise at the bilateral level, as in the case of trade talks between the United States and the Dominican Republic. The study explores the determinant of agricultural industry competitiveness in the 21st century, particularly in the case of U.S. and Dominican ag...

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Carey E. Donald1, Richard P. Scott1, Kathy L. Blaustein2, Mary L. Halbleib2, Makhfousse Sarr3, Paul C. Jepson2 and Kim A. Anderson1 1Food Safety and Environmental Stewardship Program, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, ALS 1007, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA 2Integrated Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University, 2040 Cordley Hall, Corvallis OR 97330, USA 3United ...

The nutritive values of a series of commercial fish meals and deodorized fish flours intended for human consumption have recently been examined for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is well known that fish protein can be damaged during drying, although this damage does not necessarily occur, and as these meals were prepared under widely varying conditions in six di...