1Département des sciences animales, Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Soils and Crops Research and Development Centre, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada G1V 2J3 (e-mail: [email protected]); and 3Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre, Lennoxvi...

The agri-food sector is facing global challenges that cannot be met without support by information technologies (IT) on a level even beyond today’s advanced IT utilizations. However, emerging technologies and their integration open the way for the development of integrated digital environments that could provide platforms for a reorganization of sector activities, and especially market related ...

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Zur Gewährleistung der Kontrollmaßnahmen und für einen reibungslosen Informationsfluss zur Umsetzung von Verordnungen und Vorschriften der EU und des Bundes aus dem Bereich des EAGFL erteilten im August 1998 sechs Bundesländer der Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information (ZADI) den Auftrag zum Betrieb eines Dokumenten-Managementsystems (DMS), aus dem inzwischen das Wissens-Manageme...

L. Song, X. M. Bao, X. J. Liu, Y. Zhang, P. Christie, A. Fangmeier, and F. S. Zhang College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions of the Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Urumqi 83...

Preface: The knowledge revolution is transforming the basis for Western Canadian agriculture. Professor Peter Drucker has argued that " the basic economic resource – 'the means of production,' to use the economist's term – is no longer capital, or natural resources (the economist's 'land'), nor 'labour.' It is and will be knowledge. " This series of research and policy papers is designed to con...

a State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China b Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China c Agri-Environmental Services Branch (AESB), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), 960 Carling Av. Ottawa, ON, Canad...

The causes of agriculture-related conflicts over environmental goods are typically diffuse, making their governance costly compared with point-source conflicts (Wills, 1997). Over the last couple of decades, moreover, there has been a noticeable acceleration in the onset of these ‘agri-environmental’ conflicts as more and more of the environmental goods relied upon by agriculture have become fu...

esca of grapevine is a serious and injurious disease in grape-growing all over the world, for which no effective control exists. the presented research ,in two separate experiments ,thirteen fungicides (benomyl, thiophanate-methyl thiram, mancozeb, fosetyl-al, metalaxyl mancozeb, caboxin thiram, ortiva, topas, penconazole , tebuconazole ,propiconazole, sodium arsenate, agri-fos ) were evaluated...