The recent Crop Intensification Program represents a great opportunity for Rwanda to guarantee food security and strengthen the country`s agricultural productivity. However overwhelming evidence is arising that a sustained growth path will be preserved over time only if the production process incorporates sustainability issues. Through qualitative interviews, a quantitative analysis and finding...

Agricultural innovation in low-income tropical countries ontributes to a more effective and sustainable use of natural resources and reduces hunger and poverty through economic development in rural areas. Yet, despite numerous recent public and private initiatives to develop capacities for agricultural innovation, such in itiatives are often not well aligned with national efforts to revive exis...

— This paper presents an empirical analysis that addresses recent work seeking ‘‘win– win–win’’ scenarios for economic development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. I focus on arguments for ‘‘productive conservation’’ in forest frontier regions, namely raising rural incomes while conserving the forest resource base. The analysis examines the impacts of agricultural product an...

Most agricultural crops cultivated in Brazil are highly nutrient demanding. Brazilian soils are generally acidic with low base saturation and available nutrients. Demand for fertilizer application has increased because the national agricultural sector expansion. To improve productivity without environmental impact, there is the need for the utilization of novel procedures and techniques to opti...

Identification, evaluation and optimization of a minimum simple sequence repeat marker set for triticale breedingW.C. Botes D. Bitalo

In 1973, Jim Hightower and his associates at the Agribusiness Accountability Project dropped a bombshell – HardTomatoes,HardTimes–onthe land-grantcollegeandagricultural scienceestablishments.Fromtheearly1970s until roughly 1990, Hightower-style criticism of and activism toward the public agricultural research system focusedonasetof closely interrelated themes: the tendencies for thepublicly sup...

6 Agricultural sustainability practices make the best use 7 of both nature’s resources and available technology, 8 and generally avoid those land use practices that lead 9 to greater environmental stress. There are examples in 10 some agro-ecosystems, however, where stress is vital 11 to food quality and productivity. In the case of grape 12 production, a limited amount of environmental stress ...

Feeding 9 billion people is not solely a matter of food, health, nutrition, and the environment. Promoting human health by increasing the sustainability and resilience of food systems requires integrating information from a broad range of disciplines from human nutrition/health systems and agricultural/natural systems to social, financial, physical and political systems. Ontologies serve to spe...