Conceptual approaches to research modern agricultural food systems

Food and Agricultural Research Council

The significance of N2O emission from soils cropped with sugarcane was measured at Réduit and Belle Rive. The data demonstrated that N20 emissions from soils receiving 140 Kg N ha-1 was not markedly enhanced with regard to the background level emission from unfertilised soils.

Food and Agricultural Research Council

The process of transforming data or observations into a coherent, meaningful framework generates information, that is something which can be utilised by the recipient. The technology by which such a transformation is achieved is information technology and in an agricultural context this can be traced back at least as far as Fisher at the beginning of the 1900s. The utilisation of Information Te...

Modern Approaches to Control Systems Design

Agricultural Research Service Food Safety Review

Members of the ARS National Program in Food Safety (NP 108) Assessment Panel (NP108) met in Beltsville, Maryland on December 14 and 15, 2004 to conduct a retrospective evaluation of this program. This report summarizes the panel’s discussions, written assessments, and overall feedback regarding research and related program administration within NP108. An assessment of impact and relative streng...

[Ethical principles and approaches to health systems governance research: conceptual and methodological implications].

Governance refers to decision-making processes in which power relationships and actors and institutions' particular interests converge. Situations of consensus and conflict are inherent to such processes. Furthermore, decision-making happens within a framework of ethical principles, motivations and incentives which could be explicit or implicit. Health systems in most Latin-American and Caribbe...