Organic Agriculture and Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Main Potentials and Challenges

Organic Agriculture and Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Main Potentials and Challenges. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 53(9): 917-928. Organic Agriculture and Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Main Potentials and Challenges

While much has been published on the advantages of organic agriculture, less has addressed its potentials and challenges to fight undernourishment in developing countries. This article aims at reviewing the main potentials and challenges of this approach when dealing with “undernourishment” as a multi-faceted concept in developing countries. Accordingly, two main issues of the concept which are...

Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Management Challenges in Developing Countries

Cities in developing countries are experiencing unparalleled growth and rapidly increasing water supply and sanitation coverage that will continue to release growing volumes of wastewater. In many developing countries, untreated or partially treated wastewater is used to irrigate the cities’ own food, fodder, and green spaces. Farmers have been using untreated wastewater for centuries, but grea...

Organic agriculture: opportunities and challenges

The tradition in agriculture has been to maximize production and minimize the cost of food with little regard to impacts on the environment and the services it provides to society. As the world enters an era in which global food production is likely to double, it is critical that agricultural practices be modified to minimize environmental impacts even though many such practices are likely to i...

The Gatt , Agriculture , and the Developing Countries

The Determination of Current Challenges and Potentials in Each of the Main Elements of Social Harms in Tehran

This study is an attempt to monitor and investigate the main elements of social harms from political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal perspectives in accordance with the factors of PESTEL. One of the findings of the present study indicates that Iran has taken several measures in order to fight narcotics.  In poverty and unemployment, it must be admitted that cast...