Nathalie Berger,a Bertrand Dubreucq,a François Roudier,b Christian Dubos,a and Loı̈c Lepinieca,1 a Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1318 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique–Agro-ParisTech, Saclay Plant Sciences, 78026 Versailles cedex, France b Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche...

considering the current upward drift in farm use all over the world, the russian agro-food market has immense possibilities to create such economic conditions under which the farming sector could develop dynamically. the increase in the grain production is of crucial importance for all agricultural branches. in this respect, the grain sector is russia’s strategically significant economic segmen...

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...

Coloured rice genotypes have greater nutritious value and consumer demand for these varieties is now greater than ever. The documentation of these genotypes is important for the improvement of the rice plant. In this study, 42 coloured rice genotypes were selected for determination of their genetic divergence using 25 simple sequence repeat (SSR) primers and 15 agro-morphological traits. Twenty...

Paecilomyces lilacinus has potential for pests control. We aimed to analyze mycelial growth and spore production in P. lilacinus strains in several agro-industrial residues and commercial media. This study suggests alternative nutrient sources for fungi production and that the biotechnological potential of agro-industrial refuses could be employed in byproducts development.

This paper examines the effect of pastoralist-farmers conflict on access to resources in savanna area of Oyo state, Nigeria. A snow ball technique was used to obtain a list of agro-pastoralists and their camps in the study area whose conflicts with crop farmers were caused by the nomadic pastoralists’ uncontrolled grazing. Fifty percent of the households in each camp were randomly chosen and si...

In a bid to return the country to food selfsufficiency, the Government of Kenya has been spearheading strategies for a new ‘Green Revolution’ in the food producing sector, as spelt out in its Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA), a ten-year action plan launched in 2004. The SRA is entrenched in Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s framework for long-term investment and development (Republi...

There is increasing interest in rural development circles in promoting alternative livelihoods opportunities for pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods. However, there is very little empirical evidence that effectively evaluates the impact of the existing approaches. As pastoral and agro-pastoral production conditions change, due to factors such as increasing competition over natural resources ...

In-service education programs have provided the professional development level of companies' employers, in the high quality form. The applying of in-service education programs has been a key component of professional development process for staff agro-industry Company. The study is utilized experimental Solomon four group designs to determine the impact of in-service education programs on agro-...

1 Institute of Agro-products Processing Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; E-Mails: [email protected] (L.S.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); [email protected] (Y.M.E.F.); [email protected] (J.C.); [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.N.S.); [email protected] (F.X.); [email protected] (L.Z.); [email protected] (Y.W.) 2 Key Labor...