Intelligent Design Theory (ID) has been much maligned recently as Neo-Creationist pseudoscience. This paper looks briefly at the common arguments used against ID, including arguments from methodological naturalism (MN), falsifiability, productivity, and religious fundamentalism. Ultimately it goes on to explain why the theory could be beneficial to our society today and suggests a need for a me...

In the food safety arena, a clear role for government is to adopt sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures to protect human, animal, and plant life or health. Relative to developing countries, developed countries tend to adopt more stringent food safety standards and regulations with a broader scope and to rely increasingly on certification and traceability. The additional costs of compliance ...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: – to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

1 Identification of Associations between Clinical Signs and Hosts to Monitor the Web for Detection of Animal Disease Outbreaks; Elena Arsevska, Unit for Control of Exotic and Emerging Diseases in Animals (UMR CMAEE), French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation Organization (CIRAD), Montpellier, France Mathieu Roche, Unit for Land, Environment, Remote Sensing and Spatial Informati...

Not many land grant universities have seriously addressed the issues related to the global development of youth. In the United States, colleges of agriculture have a long and proud domestic record of youth leadership development through extension 4-H programs and high school agriculture programs, including FFA. Rural and urban young men and women have benefited from being involved in these educ...

from chronic food insecurity (World Food Program, 2010). One third of the population is food insecure, the most vulnerable of whom are women and children. International Financial Institutions (IFIs), including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), have severely undermined Haiti’s ability to improve food security and reduce hunge...

Most women live in the developing world, and of these, between 2% and 10% smoke cigarettes, although in some regions women more commonly chew tobacco. There can be no complacency about the lower level of tobacco use among women; it does not reflect health awareness, but rather social traditions and women's low economic resources. The number of women smokers will inevitably increase: the female ...