The Kennedy Leigh Centre for Horticultural Research and The Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel (A.V., D.W.); Newe Ya’ar Research Center, ARO, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel (E.L.); and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University o...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting increasing research attention, due to their wide spectrum of applications, including military purposes for monitoring, tracking and surveillance of borders, intelligent transportation systems for monitoring traffic density and road conditions, and environmental applications to monitor, for example, atmospheric pollution, water quality, agriculture,...

The Kennedy Leigh Centre for Horticultural Research and The Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel (A.V., D.W.); Newe Ya’ar Research Center, ARO, Ramat Yishay 30095, Israel (E.L.); and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University o...

Sensor networks are increasingly being implemented for environmental monitoring and agriculture to provide spatially accurate and continuous environmental information and (near) real-time applications. These networks provide a large amount of data which poses challenges for ensuring data quality and extracting relevant information. In the present paper we describe a river basin scale wireless s...

Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164–6414 (B.W.P., L.D.); College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310036, People’s Republic of China (L.D., H.W.); and Food Quality Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, ...

Blanca B. Landa, College of Agriculture (ETSIAM), University of Córdoba (UCO), P.O. Box 3048, 14080 Córdoba, Spain; Juan A. Navas-Cortés, Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), P.O. Box 4084, 14080 Córdoba, Spain; María del Mar Jiménez-Gasco, Department of Plant Pathology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Jaa...

German social theorist Ulrich Beck has suggested that the political economy of post-industrial society has shifted away from the competition among relatively well-defined social groups for control of benefit streams resulting from technological and organizational innovations that characterized the roughly 200-year period of industrialization. In its place, we find constantly changing aggregates...

In this paper we address two topical questions: How do the quality of governance and agricultural intensification impact on spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of governance are more likely to ensure that agricultural intensification allows sparing land for nature? Using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, the World Database on Protected Areas, and the Y...

This paper presents an overview of the development of macroeconomic conditions in Ukrainian agriculture from 1990 to the present, and highlights the main features of land privatization & farm reorganization that have strong impact on the environment. In this regard, the review describes the major agri-environmental issues drawn from national Ukrainian datasets accompanied by a discussion of the...

This paper examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas. The paper’s objectives are first, to increase awareness of livelihood diversification in approaches to rural development; second, to consider th...