Landowners in Japanese Agricultural Villages

Landowners' incentives for constructing wetlands in an agricultural area in south Sweden.

Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea has in Sweden led to the initiation of government schemes aiming to increase wetland areas in agricultural regions and thereby reduce nutrient transport to the sea. Landowners play a significant role as providers of this ecosystem service and are currently offered subsidies to cover their costs for constructing and maintaining wetlands. We undertook a grounded t...

Three Japanese Villages: a Filipino's Glimpses of Rural Japan

At the outset, I would like to emphasize that this report is highly impressionistic. The observations made here are merely based on wQat I have seen in the course of nearly three months of stay in Japan in 1977 for purposes of participating in a pioneering research project involving Southeast Asian and Japanese scholars, and making use of the interdisciplinary mode of analysis. The remarks I wi...

How Japanese students reason about agricultural biotechnology.

Many have claimed that education of the ethical issues raised by biotechnology is essential in universities, but there is little knowledge of its effectiveness. The focus of this paper is to investigate how university students assess the information given in class to make their own value judgments and decisions relating to issues of agricultural biotechnology, especially over genetically modifi...

Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Tales of 18 Natural Villages in China

Fecundability among newly married couples in agricultural villages in Palestine: a prospective study

BACKGROUND The validity of studies on fecundability in Western countries has been questioned. The complexity of societal and cultural factors makes it difficult to dissect pure biological impact. Our aim was to assess couple fecundability in a population which to a large degree is unaffected by the same socio-cultural influences. METHODS We conducted a prospective study on time-to-pregnancy (...