Regional Differences in Glyphosate Use and Fecundity Luz-Helena Sanin, Gabriel Carrasquilla, Keith R. Solomon, Donald C. Cole, and E. J. P. Marshall Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, FEN, Mexico, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico, Department of Microbiology, School of Health Sciences, ...

When dealing with environmental and ecological systems, stochastic methods may play central role at various stages for proper identification, assessment and decisions. This is particularly due to their ability to integrate the diverse knowledges which are needed to deal with the complex nature of environmental and ecological issues. The main purpose of this mini-symposium is the development of ...

Education is essential to raise public awareness on organic agriculture and agroecology (OA & AE). The EU funded project Organic.Edunet will provide an online, freely-available portal where learning contents on OA & AE can be published and accessed through specialized technologies. Thus, the future Organic.Edunet portal will offer advanced services (such as ontology-based searching and social r...

The Organic.Edunet Web portal is a multilingual federation of educational repositories, developed in order to enhance the availability and retrieval of quality educational resources about Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). This paper presents the results of an online survey that took place from March to August 2010 in order to evaluate the user satisfaction from the Organic.Edunet W...

Background: Agroecology is increasingly seen as an important contribution for the development of more sustainable agriculture and food systems. Research can have a main role to support this path. Although it seems that there gradual increasing body agroecology research, clearly lacks good knowledge about this. The objective study was therefore map research projects r...

Agroecology is a sustainable alternative to agricultural science, aiming at balancing the environment-plant-animal-man complex in an equitable way. Different players food system across world are engaging practice and promotion of agroecology. Their experience serves as input for agroecology innovation hubs, thus assisting accelerating adoption agroecological practices. Based on existing impleme...