A growing number of studies have shown that adequate spatial access to healthy foods leads to increased fresh produce consumption and reduced risk of chronic diseases. Annual dynamics of spatial access to 1,539 vendors of fresh produce (including farmers markets and roadside farm stands) are analyzed in Massachusetts. Travel distance to the nearest fresh produce vendor was calculated for each c...

This chapter analyzes the technical efficiency of banana production among Ugandan smallholders by estimating a stochastic production frontier model with inefficiency effects. The empirical models are formulated within the overarching framework of the agricultural household specified in Chapter 2. The data design is also summarized in Chapter 2, although additional information about soil quality...

About 900 000 people, consistingmainly of farm workers and their families, have been displaced by the recent takeover of white-owned commercial farms in Zimbabwe. The occupation of the farms by veteran independence fighters and ‘‘land-hungry’’ villagers is supported politically by the government as part of a land redistribution plan. According to the Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe (FCTZ) esse...

background and objectives: leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease caused by leptospira interrogans . leptospirosis leads to economical losses in dairy farm industry. the objective of this study was to evaluate the pathogenic serovars of leptospira interrogans in dairy cattle herds of shahrekord by pcr. materials and methods: two hundred samples (100 urine and 100 blood) were collected f...

Reservoir Eutrophication Reservoirs are water bodies created specifically for the purposes of water management. They differ in many significant ways from natural lakes. Studies have shown, however, that reservoirs have many functional similarities to natural lakes. Furthermore, since much of our limnological understanding stems from the studies of natural lakes (Wetzel, 2001), it is reasonable ...

Introduction: Most of the animals reared for food are reservoirs Extended Spectrum Beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing coliforms. ESBL Escherichia coli (E. coli) in chicken meat increasing worldwide. Since consumption meals is higher compared to other livestock Sri Lanka, there a threat transmit these organisms humans via food. The aim this study was determine E. prevalence stools and presence anti...

The development of irrigated agriculture is a strategic direction sustainable the agrarian sector economy, ensuring national food security, increasing export potential and efficient use land resource potential. purpose article to systematically analyze economic framework for in Ukraine. methodological basis study systematic approach, within which following general scientific special methods hav...

We develop a consistent stochastic thermodynamics for environments composed of thermodynamic reservoirs in an external conservative force field, that is, environments described by the generalized or Gibbs canonical ensemble. We demonstrate that small systems weakly coupled to such reservoirs exchange both heat and work by verifying a local detailed balance relation for the induced stochastic dy...

Sequestration of CO2 in oil reservoirs is considered to be one of the feasible options for mitigating atmospheric CO2 building up and also for the in situ potential bioconversion of stored CO2 to methane. However, the information on these functional microbial communities and the impact of CO2 storage on them is hardly available. In this paper a comprehensive molecular survey was performed on mi...