The study examines the kind of actors and resources that empower small-scale farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. It also analyzes the reasons given by farmers who changed their farming methods. In 2004, the Department of Agriculture launched a project for the Promoting Organic Farming and Marketing in Lao PDR (PROFIL). PROFIL tried to develop market opportunities for Lao’s organic produ...

BackgroundDiets in high-income countries such as the UK are generally both unhealthy and unsustainable, contributing to climate change an escalating prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Community supported agriculture schemes (CSAs) present a promising sustainable alternative large-scale intensive monoculture farming. Our study aimed explore this potential by investigating whether CSA membe...

Agri-Food business requires access to increasingly accurate, detailed, and up-to-date information and data. Worldwide, agriculture lacks the coherence and coordination for exchanging these data. Many data are captured in existing information systems, but for developers of new services it is often difficult to use the data of these systems in order to make them interoperable. This paper describe...

Arkansas agriculture teachers (N=259) were surveyed to obtain information needed by a planning committee studying the issue of science credit for agriculture. Objectives were to determine: (a) the level of support for granting science credit for agriculture; (b) teachers' support for methods of granting science credit for agriculture for agriculture; (c) teachers' support for methods of certify...

The Italian Chapter (SYDIC) of the System Dynamics Society, needed an effective tool to monitor its member activities, and to support the diffusion of the System Dynamics methodology in Italy, by encouraging the contacts between scholars, researchers and professionals making use of this discipline. Among the existing tools, we identified the web community idea as the most suitable. By carefully...