1 State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China 2 Key Lab of Southwestern Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Innovation Ministry of Agriculture, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources, Yunnan Academy of Agr...

Introduction Smallholder agricultural development in developing countries faces challenges and constraints related to persistent food insecurity, food price volatility, food safety, and sustainability concerns, but also is experiencing increased opportunities arising from growing domestic and global agricultural market demand (McCullough, Pingali, and Stamoulis 2008; World Bank 2006, 2007). Suc...

The significance of Science Framework (SF) to date is receiving more acceptances all over the world to address agricultural sustainability. The professional views, however, advocate that the SF known as Mega Science Framework (MSF) in the transitional economies is not converging effectively in many ways for the agricultural sustainability. Specially, MSF in transitional economies is mostly inca...

1 Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China 2 Freshwater Aquaculture Collaborative Innovation Center of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei, China 3 Division of Fish Pathology, Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China 4 Key Lab of Freshwater Animal Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, Hubei, Chin...

1 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2 Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 3 Department of Plant Sciences, Tree Protect...

The timely and efficient commercialization of innovation is one of industry’s principal needs if it is to invest in research and development within a given jurisdiction. Increasing regulatory requirements are resulting in longer regulatory approval times, and in some cases where socio-economic considerations are now part of the regulatory approval process, the regulatory system has been put int...

Jin-Feng ZHONG, Xiao-Qing ZHANG, Wei-Gao WU, Wei TU, Zhen-Xiang LIU, Re-Jun FANG* College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, P.R. China Hunan Co-Innovation Center of Animal Production Safety, Changsha, P.R. China Hunan Polytechnic of Environment and Biology, Hengyang, P.R. China Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohho...

JianNing HE, DongWei HUANG, Ran DI, JinXin WANG, MingXing CHU, QiuYue LIU, WenPing HU, XiangYu WANG, ZhangYuan PAN Key Laboratory of Farm Animal Genetic Resources and Germplasm Innovation of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, P.R. C...

Amid expectations for a European ‘transition to sustainable agriculture’, there are competing transitional processes. Given the widely acknowledged harm from agro-industrial systems, unsustainable agriculture has divergent diagnoses and innovative solutions. In the EU policy context of a Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE), there are also divergent accounts of its key terms: biological resources...