Land Transfer or Trusteeship: Can Agricultural Production Socialization Services Promote Grain Scale Management?

Agricultural land management options following large-scale environmental contamination.

The recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, have raised questions about the accumulation of radionuclides in soils, the transfer in the food chain, and the possibility for restricted land use in the foreseeable future. This article summarizes what is generally understood about the application of agricultural countermeasures as a land management option to reduce the...

What Can Agricultural Land Use Planning Contribute to Food Production and Food Policy?

Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to ‘protect’ agriculture ...

Can Web Services Scale Up?

I n the past, only major Internet players such as Amazon, eBay, and Google were interested in deploying large-scale Web services. However , this is changing rapidly—all sorts of companies and governmental organizations are suddenly looking towards Web services as a platform that might support a wide range of demanding applications. Examples of such systems include big banking and brokerage data...

Assessment of Land Management Practices in Food Crops Production among Small Scale Farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria

The study carried out an assessment of agricultural land management practices in food crops production among small scale farmers in Kwara Sate, Nigeria. Specifically, the study determined the socio economic characteristics of crop farmers in Kwara State; ascertained the cropping patterns common among them; highlighted the soil conservation methods adopted by the farmers; examined the relationsh...

Land Market Development and Agricultural Production Efficiency in Albania