To Build Up Partnership between Agriculture and Food

Food and agriculture Chemicals for agriculture

Agricultural production relies heavily on manmade chemicals used as fertilizers and pesticides, and to regulate plant growth. Pesticides are released intentionally into the environment to control insects, weeds, plant diseases and other pests that affect crop or animal production, as well as to control insects that spread human diseases. Pesticides have a well-established role in agriculture an...

Cindy Kamikawa Jillian Inouye Partnership to Build Research Capacity

314 THE WORLDS OF NURSING education and practice have developed along parallel tracks resulting in cultures with different expectations and work styles. Leaders in contemporary nursing education acknowledge the separation from practice and the difficulty of education to keep pace with the speed of change occurring in the delivery of health care. Today’s nursing leaders are setting the stage for...

Food , Agriculture and Cities

Conceptualization of the dynamics and synergistic partnership between the agri-food production chain and public health veterinarians

Food and agriculture Food irradiation makes progress

About a quarter of the world's food production is lost after harvesting, even though a number of food preservation methods are readily available. Losses occur especially in the tropical regions where most developing countries are situated: perhaps because the available food preservation technologies do not function efficiently in such environments, or because they do not lend themselves to the ...