This article describes international collaborative efforts aimed at improving the global capacity to address fisheries crime, with a particular focus on the International Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (IMCS) network and INTERPOL activities. These 2 initiatives have emerged as a response to existing governance deficits and, combined, substantially improve the prospects for addressing ill...

The author briefly describes the work of Malthus and the development of first- and second-generation economic-demographic models. He then discusses a proposed third-generation model which "examines conjointly both consequences and determinants of population growth, and analyzes them at the level of the agricultural household." A project being conducted by the Food and Agricultural Organization ...

1 Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850 USA 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430 USA 3 Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 4 Laboratory of Plant Patholog...

throughout the gastrointestinal tract of pre-weaned calves 2 3 Nilusha Malmuthuge, Philip J. Griebel , Le Luo Guan 4 5 Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 6 AB, Canada; Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, SK, 7 Canada; School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada. 8 9 Corresponding Aut...

Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases: report of a joint WHO/FAO expert consultation, Geneva, 28 January-1 February 2002.

This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the author alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO.

The aim of this contribution is to introduce three livestock species of Oman – camels, goats and horses. Even though cattle and sheep are nowadays very numerous in Oman, too, the three mentioned species were identified as being part of the country’s long tradition of nomadic and semi-nomadic livestock keeping and can thus be called the most important livestock species of Oman. FAO data from 200...

During the discussion, the important role of agriculture as a major provider of environmental services also emerged, with participants pointing to its important role in sequestering carbon, managing watersheds and preserving biodiversity. Conversely, it was pointed out that agriculture is also a major consumer of natural resources and that sustainable About this online discussion This document ...

INTRODUCTION The rapid pace of discovery in the lifesciences can have profound implications for public health, and the focus of much deliberation in recent years has been on how best to ensure that they are positive and not negative. A key focus of debate has been on dual-use research of concern (DURC), which has been defined as life-science research that “could be directly misapplied to pose a...