This perspective discusses nine conditions for enhancing the performance of multistakeholder partnerships for sustainable development. Such partnerships have become mainstream implementation mechanisms for attaining international sustainable development goals and are also frequently used in other adjacent policy domains such as climate change, health and biodiversity. While multistakeholder arr...

The awareness of the Sustainable Development (SD) issues and stakeholder interactions in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) management, forces companies to adopt the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Green IT to meet the challenges of innovation agility, and afterwards to create differentiation in the processes of governance and strategic alignment...

Ice Nucleation, Propagation, and Deep Supercooling in Woody Plants M. Wisniewskia; M. Fullerb; J. Paltac; J. Carterd; R. Arorae a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysvile, WV, USA b University of Plymouth, Newton Abbot, UK c Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WA, USA d Department of Horticulture, U...

THE PURPOSE OF MODELS AND THE MODELING EXERCISE In order to better understand the significance of models in practical horticulture we have to put ourselves into the position of the horticulturist (orchard grower, consultant . . . ) and appreciate first of all some skepticism toward modeling. This does not necessarily mean a downright refusal to use models: on the contrary, it is often the resul...

■ In some instances involvement in social and therapeutic horticulture programmes can also lead to employment or further training or education. ‘Horticultural therapy is the use of plants by a trained professional as a medium through which certain clinically defined goals may be met’. ‘Therapeutic horticulture is the process by which individuals may develop well-being using plants and horticult...

Global reduction of chemical deposition into the environment is necessary. In protected horticulture, different strategies with biodegradable products are used to control pathogens. This review presents the available tools, especially for the management of protected horticultural species, including vegetables and ornamental plants. An analysis of the potential for degradable products that contr...

The worldwide increases in both environmental damage and human population pressure have the unfortunate consequence that global food production may soon become insufficient to feed all of the world's people. It is therefore essential that agricultural productivity be significantly increased within the next few decades. To this end, agricultural practice is moving toward a more sustainable and e...

in order to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of horticulture processing industries in north khorasan province, this study was used in the analysis of strategic factors approach. required information through interviews and questionnaires completed by 20 people of professional management and agricultural industries, horticulture experts and owners horticulture process...

In recent years, the world has suffered an exaggerated and disproportionate exploitation of natural resources that directly affects people's lives both now in future. This utilitarian way understanding environment also extends to our society, which is becoming dehumanized, producing so-called social exclusion. Horticulture, as basis food production for humanity, a notable influence on Earth eco...

ISHS XXXI International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022): Symposium on Urban Horticulture for Sustainable Food Security (UrbanFood2022) Do we still need to develop new tools assess the sustainability of urban agriculture?