Agriculture and health are linked in many ways. First, agriculture is essential for good health: it produces the world's food, fibre and materials for shelter; in many countries it is also an important source of livelihood among the poor. At the same time, agriculture can be linked with poor health, including malnutrition, malaria, foodborne illnesses, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immu...

The Sino-German Project between the China Agricultural University and the University of Hohenheim, Germany, focused on sustainable Agriculture in the North China Plain. One major focus of the project was the establishment of an experiment field near Beijing to investigate different agricultural practices and their impact on yield and environment. The second task was to set-up a GIS based Agricu...

the support of agricultural sector is adopted in various countries of the globe through different means and mostly with the aims such as increasing farmers incomes, protecting domestic products, ending dependence (on foreign goods), augmenting employment and reducing poverty. this paper tries to survey the support policies in agricultural sector in different countries as far as their components...

Education and career 1988, veterinary degree, university of extremadura, cáceres, spain. 1993, phD in biochemistry and molecular biology, university of extremadura; advisor: germán soler. 1999–2000, postdoctoral researcher, ceA-saclay, gif-sur-yvette, France; advisor: marc le maire. 1989–present, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, university of extremadura. 2007–present, group lea...

this research was done with the aim of analyzing the factors that influence the professional development of agricultural faculty members. methodologically, this explanatory research was carried out through survey method. the population of the research consisted of agricultural faculty members of iran universities (n=1190). using random stratified sampling method, 120 faculty members were select...

the main purpose of this study was to study the barriers to nanotechnology entrepreneurship development in the iranian agricultural sector. a descriptive- survey method was used for collecting data. the statistical population of this study consisted of 190 researchers who were working in the national agricultural research institutions (n=190). based on the krejcie and morgan table, a sample of ...