Are we making the best use of laboratory computer systems? In this first issue of the 1983 volume of the Journal of Automatic Chemistry we can look back on a very successful first year with our new publisher, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Their experience in scientific publishing has been of considerable value to me and the editorial team. We now have a well-produced, accepted and well-presented produc...

Dr. Jung-Gi Im served for five years as the Editor-inchief. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Korean Radiological Society back in the last decade, Dr. Im devoted himself to giving birth to this English journal. In the editorial of the inaugural issue in 2000, Dr. Im pronounced that his editorial policy was to meet global standards and trends in radiology combined with an EastAsian pe...

After three decades of post-Soviet agrarian change, farming structures in Tajikistan remain dynamic. Despite a centralised reform agenda pushed forward by international donors, the local implementation reforms has resulted striking differences across country. This paper investigates Tajikistan’s geography and political economy. We show that unevenness Tajik state’s power autonomy vis-à-vis soci...

This paper examines the effect of the poor road transportation network on crop production in one of the rural agrarian local government of Kwara State, Nigeria. A well-structured interview schedule was conducted to elicit information from 120 crop farmers using a two-stage sampling technique. Findings from the study revealed that the poor road transportation network in their area had led to a r...

Many concerns would find it useful to have a publicly available database recording exposures to particular substances, with contextual information. The European Union's Registration, Evaluations, Authorisation, and restriction of Chemicals regulation has increased interest in this. It has been suggested that journals should require detailed publication of exposure data with papers. But there ar...

Henry Bernstein has criticized the research agenda of Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), and publications linked to it, for, among other things, not having specified which classes are supposed comprise proposed emancipatory rural politics. The Journal Agrarian Change organized a special issue (published in January 2023) that takes Bernstein's critique as its point departure. It emph...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.032.].