FARMING PATTERNS AND EXPORT GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTH CANTERBURY

Farming for new opportunities

It is a rare twenty-first century biologist who hasn’t found themselves at some point dreaming of a simpler, less administrative, more collegial time in research. For some, that dream may entail a trip back to the 1950s, when early molecular biology hooligans shook each other down for ideas in the pubs of Cambridge. But for Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the dream lies in the near future and ...

Farming in South Africa

The Strategy of Export Diversification and Economic Growth in

Today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. For various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...

Plant molecular farming: opportunities and challenges.

Production of foreign molecules in transgenic plants is anticipated to be an alternative to already established, microbial or animal expression systems with lower production costs. This article reviews the different technologies and approaches currently used to produce economically interesting molecules in plants or plant cell cultures, to evaluate their technical feasibility and economic impli...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...