Agricultural biotechnology (agbiotech) has intersected with a wider debate about ‘sustainable agriculture’, especially in Europe. Agbiotech was initially promoted as an alternative which would avoid or remedy past problems of intensive agriculture, but such claims were soon challenged. Agbiotech has extended the dominant agri-industrial paradigm, while critics have counterposed alternatives cor...

Adaptation in agriculture to climate change is important for impact and vulnerability assessment and for the development of climate change policy. A wide variety of adaptation options has been proposed as having the potential to reduce vulnerability of agricultural systems to risks related to climate change, often in an ad hoc fashion. This paper develops a typology of adaptation to systematica...

background: today, with the rapid growth of scientific production, research misconduct has become a worldwide problem. this article is intended to introduce the successful experience on the management of research paper misconducts in the field of health research. methods: our aim was to design and develop the strategy for research misconduct policy. focusing on the national regulatory system, w...

In the past 20 years a key topic of public sector reform in OECD countries has been the emergence of regulatory policy. During this period, the nature of regulation has undergone profound and rapid change. It evolved from early efforts of eliminating regulation and gave way to more systemic regulatory reform, involving a mixture of de-regulation, re-regulation and improving the effectiveness of...

BACKGROUND There is limited research on the use of evidence to inform policy-making in the Pacific. This study aims to identify and describe factors that facilitate or limit the use of evidence in food-related policy-making in the Health and Agriculture Ministries in Fiji. METHODS Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with selected policy-makers in two government ministries t...

Disclaimer: The conclusions and recommendations presented here are those of the authors and do not represent the official policy of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations or the Government of Brazil.

BACKGROUND Scorpion stings are a major public health problem in Brazil, with an increasing number of registered cases every year. Affecting mostly vulnerable populations, the phenomenon is not well described and is considered a neglected disease. In Brazil, the use of anti-venom formulations is provided free of charge. The associate scorpion sting case is subject to compulsory reporting. This p...

Abstract Recent empirical analyses show consumers in electricity and water markets respond to average price rather than marginal price, calling for information provision policies that help correct the consumers’ bias. This paper characterizes regulated tariff if regulator is informed about average-price response of consumers. I find biased promotes equity gains by featuring quantity premia prov...