2 Agropolis Fondation is a French foundation for scientific cooperation established in 2007 to promote and support high-level research and higher education (training-through-research) as well as to broaden international partnerships in agricultural sciences and sustainable development research. It supports a research network with scientists working on a continuum of multidisciplinary knowledge ...

this work investigates the effect of the application rate and type of sludge throughout the soilcarbon cycle in a semiarid mediterranean agro-ecosystem. we study the two-year evolution of the variouspools of soil organic and inorganic carbon and their influence on soil respiration. we applied three rates (40, 80 and 160 mg/ha) of two types of sludge –aerobically and anaerobically digested sewag...

2 Agropolis Fondation is a French foundation for scientific cooperation established in 2007 to promote and support high-level research and higher education (training-through-research) as well as to broaden international partnerships in agricultural sciences and sustainable development research. It supports a research network with scientists working on a continuum of multidisciplinary knowledge ...

International experts were invited by WHO to join an international team, which visited Riyadh 4-9 June 2013. The joint Saudi/WHO team comprised officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and public health institutions and hospitals in...

This paper describes the administrative organisation of veterinary public health (VPH) activities in seven countries of the Western Mediterranean region. These structures vary greatly, as a function of the national administrations overall and, in particular, as a result of assigning VPH to either the Ministry of Agriculture or Public Health. Whereas the VPH unit is generally involved in specifi...

International experts were invited by WHO to join an international team, which visited Riyadh 4-9 June 2013. The joint Saudi/WHO team comprised officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and public health institutions and hospitals in...

This paper provides standardized estimates of labor productivity in arable farming in selected regions of the early Ottoman Empire, including Jerusalem and neighboring districts in eastern Mediterranean; Bursa and Malatya in Anatolia; and Thessaly, Herzegovina, and Budapest in eastern Europe. I use data from the tax registers of the Ottoman Empire to estimate grain output per worker, standardiz...

The world productions of olive oil reach 2,800,000 ton and 98% of this production is to be found in the Mediterranean basin, where this agricultural system has been developed for thousands of years, characterized by its adaptation to the environment and its empiricism. Several factors have modified the olive production and processing systems in the last decades. The crisis of traditional agricu...