Plant diseases are a significant constraint to agricultural productivity. Exotic plant diseases pose a continued threat to profitable agriculture in the United States. The extent of this threat has increased dramatically in the 1980s and 1990s due to the expansion of international trade in agricultural products and frequent movement of massive volume of people and goods across national boundari...

Foreword At its recent plenary meeting, the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) discussed the issues surrounding the implementation of the Biosafety Protocol (BSP). During that discussion, IPC Members expressed grave concerns that the potential implications for the agricultural trade system, in particular for importing and developing countries, were not well documented ...

The authors gratefully acknowledge support for the preparation of this report from the Directorate General for Development (DGVIII) of the European Commission. However, the views expressed and any errors or omissions are those of the authors and not of DGVIII.

The research relevance is predefined by the need to find ways increase profitability of agricultural production in difficult economic conditions Ukraine. aims analyse production, influencing factors and determination directions for its improvement. methodological approach based on analysis statistical data changes profitability; method average values – obtain value indicators; comparison compar...

A Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group has formed around a community of scientists and researchers who wish to make agricultural data, information, and knowledge more accessible. The objective of the Agricultural Data Interest Group is to get together active representatives of the major international institutions that work on agricultural research and innovation worldwide, in order to ad...

1 Pete Smith has been a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 8 " Agriculture " of the IPCC Working Group III fourth assessment report "Mitigation of Climate Change". Abstract Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions are closely linked. This paper reviews agricultural options to reduce energy intensities and their impacts, discusses important accounting issues related to system boundaries,...