agriculture and its development is the foundation of development in iran as a developing country. so, it can be regarded as the foundation for economical and social development.the capabilities of agriculture sector are limited and its efficiency is trivial because of neglecting agricultural development and keeping its support just as a slogan. the transformation of agriculture to a developed, ...

This is an edited, multi-authored volume reporting the results of a decade-long interdisciplinary research project (1990-1999), the Research Program on Sustainability in Agriculture (REPOSA). The project was undertaken by the Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), based in the Netherlands, and conducted in Costa Rica with two resident partner agencies, the Tropical Agricultural Research and ...

nowadays, issues such as global climate change, poverty and inequity, and the unsustainable use of resources are driving organizations to incorporate the principles of sustainable development into projects. sustainable development of organizations and companies requires consideration of all three sustainability dimensions: environmental, economic and social should integrate economic, social and...

The new direction taken by the Common Agricultural Policy towards rural development, originating in the year 1992, was strengthened in the Agenda 2000 and re-intensified with the CAP reform 2003. Austrian agriculture followed this track very early and intensively, explainable because of the natural conditions and agricultural structures. Here Austria differs considerably from other Iron Curtain...

this research project aimed to investigate the scientific performance motivators in agriculture and natural resources by means of measuring attitude approach. the population consisted of 300 agriculture and natural resources faculty members from agricultural and natural resources colleges as well as from the academy of sciences of islamic republic of iran who were selected through purposive sam...

This study was supported by the French National Research Agency; CERoPath (Community Ecology of Rodents and their Pathogens in Southeast Asia Project ANR 07 BDIV 012); Infectiopôle Sud; Center for Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology; the Science and Technology Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education (AGBIO/PER...

The field of bioinformatics emerged as a tool to facilitate biological discoveries more than 10 years ago. With the development of Human Genome Project (HGP), the data of biology increased fabulously and marvelously. The ability to capture, manage, process, analyze and interpret data became more important than ever. Bioinformatics and computers can help scientists to solve it. Here are introduc...

Embedded System based submersible motor control to prevent it from over load, dry run and single phasing using GSM for Agriculture Irrigation is the work done in this project which can be used to control and monitor the submersible motor used for agriculture irrigation using GSM network. This project provides the development of mobile phone as remote control application for submersible motor pu...

In this paper we discuss research work that enables the development of mixed societies of communicating plants and artefacts. PLANTS is an EUfunded Research and Development project, which aims to investigate methods of creating “interfaces” between artefacts and plants in order to enable people to form mixed, interacting (potentially co-operating) communities. Amongst others the project aims to...