Potensi sektor pertanian di Desa Kluncing Kabupaten Banyuwangi memerlukan keterlibatan berbagai lapisan masyarakat yang sebagian besar berada pertanian. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi model strategi dalam pengembangan agrowisata berbasis Klancing. Metode pengumpulan data digunakan adalah forum diskusi kelompok sosialisasi masterplan desa, wawancara mendalam, observasi langsung, d...

Urban population growth accompanied by the phenomenon of urbanization is a global issue. This raises challenges and problems in various aspects, including decline environmental quality due to reduced agricultural land/green spaces that are changing functions need for adequate food availability. As has been implemented cities world, urban farming activities were then developed as promising solut...

Ants are known to function as reliable biological indicators for habitat impact assessment. They play a wide range of ecological roles depending on their feeding and nesting habits. By clustering ants in guilds, it is possible both to assess how agriculture and forest fragmentation can disturb ant communities and to predict the ecological impacts due to losses of a specific guild. This study ai...

In the context of economic renovation, Vietnam has transferred land-use rights form state and cooperative units under central planning to individual, community and other entities. Despite remarkable success in the lowland agriculture, the advancement in the uplands stays behind expectation. Agriculture land and forest, two basic components of the human ecosystem of the ethnic minority communiti...

Several activities of the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health involve enhancement of dietary supplement databases. These include an initiative with US Department of Agriculture to develop an analytically substantiated dietary supplement ingredient database (DSID) and collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics to enhance the dietary suppleme...

Department of Community, Health Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA;National Institutes of Health Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, NIDDK, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Examination Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA; Obesity Research Center, St Lukes-Rooseve...

Declining profi tability of agriculture and/or higher prices of forest products and services typically drive an increase in forest cover. This article examines changes in forest cover in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico. Forest cover increased in the area as a result of coffee cultivation in coffee forest-garden systems. Dependence on forest products and services, and not prices of forest products, d...