Sustainable agriculture has lately made significant inroads into US agricultural policy discourse. An examination of the “life cycle” of the Fund for Rural America, a component of the 1996 farm bill, provides an example of the complex and contested ways in which the goals of sustainable agriculture are advocated, negotiated, and implemented at the level of national policy, in the context of the...

In many parts of the world food security is at risk. One of the biophysical root causes of falling per-capita food production is the declining quality and quantity of soils. To reverse this trend and increase soil fertility soil and plant nutrients have to be replenished. This review provides a literature survey of experiences of using multi-nutrient rock fertilizers for soil fertility enhancem...

Title of Document: CARTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES AND GEOGRAPHIES OF PAIN: BODILY REPRESENTATIONS IN CARIBBEAN WOMEN’S ART Belinda Deneen Wallace, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Merle Collins, Department of English Definitely, this dissertation’s central intellectual and political aims are rooted in a guiding principle of Caribbean womanhood; and, with black women’s bodies located at ...

Filling and submission of electronic forms is a key issue for egovernment, since most electronic services offered in this context include some variant of electronic forms. Insofar, IT experts are placed in the centre of electronic forms services lifecycles, undertaking the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance phases. This practice, however, implies various impediments, such as the n...

During past decade the general attitude of the population toward health, nutrition, quality and environment remarkably changed. Consequently ecological farming showed an upswing especially in developed countries. Due to growing demand, government subsidies and other economic advantages the cropping area increased and it will keep its pace in the near future. In Hungary the actors of economy hav...

This article analyzes why the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) experiences contract withdrawals. Among approved contracts, 17%withdrew one ormore conservation practices. After presenting a model of producers’ behavior, a logit model is used to examine thewithdrawalphenomenon.Withdrawals are linked toproducershaving an incentive to include low cost-share payments and practi...

and cost-benefit calculations to improve management practices regarding health status in organic dairy farming Exploration of policy options recovery progress and documentation of the success of therapy. While the therapeutic success is the result of the overall effort invested in improved living conditions and treatment effort, the level of envisaged cure rate determines the means and the degr...