Scientific Agriculture

Scientific capacity, economic growth and agriculture: Implications for the CGIAR

The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management in Hamedan's Jihad- Agriculture Applied-Scientific (HJAAS) Higher Education Center

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management in Hamedan's Jihad- Agriculture Applied-Scientific higher education center (HJAAS). Denison's Organizational Culture Model and the Building Blocks of Knowledge Management Model were used for finding this relationship. A descriptive correlative methodology was used. The stat...

Chesapeake Bay eutrophication: scientific understanding, ecosystem restoration, and challenges for agriculture.

Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of intensive research on cultural eutrophication and extensive efforts to reduce nutrient inputs. In 1987 a commitment was made to reduce controllable sources of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) by 40% by the year 2000, although the causes and effects of eutrophication were incompletely known. Subsequent research, modeling, and monitoring have shown that: (i)...

Scientific and Technical Collaboration between the CMEA Member Countries in the Sphere of Agriculture

The contemporary scientific technical revolution is considerably changing the productive forces of society; it reorganizes the material and technical basis of production, turns ·science into an immediate productive force, raises to a new level the nature of labour, accelerates the social division of labour both nationally and internationally, and enriches its forms. In the conditions of this mo...

Innovative design for agriculture in the move towards sustainability: scientific challenges

Agriculture is facing increasing innovation challenges to meet current societal expectations, yet very few design science studies are devoted to it. This paper highlights some of the particularities of the objects, reasoning and organization of design in agriculture that may open fruitful scientific dialogue between design scientists and agricultural scientists. We first provide an overview of ...