introduction: universities and their faculty members are responsible for educating students for social responsibilities. if the faculty members are to contribute to the attainment of university and societal goals, they should trust their dean, colleagues, and students. this will facilitate the collective efficacy of faculty members. if faculty members believe in their collective abilities, the ...

This study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in Delta State, Nigeria. A total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.Farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. Highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

The paper analyzes the possibility of applying theory peasant farming by Alexander Chayanov to personal subsidiary farms (LPH) collective farmers and state farm workers. It is noted that significant factors affecting their functioning were rural urbanization demographic evolution family, as well policy severe administrative restrictions on individual households. Despite unfavorable conditions f...

This issue of PLoS Genetics contains the second of two important papers describing the high levels of meiotic failure caused by exposure of female mice to a chemical known as Bisphenol A (BPA) [1]. In the first article [2], Pat Hunt and her collaborators demonstrated high levels of meiotic failure in females exposed to BPA, suggesting that BPA exposure affects maturing oocytes. This conclusion ...

Because of intensive animal farming, the problem of animal wastes disposal has become very acute in the Reunion Island, namely for liquid wastes such as pig slurry. In this paper we address the problem of determining efficient supply policies of a slurry treatment plant collectively managed by individual farmers. For this, we built a simulation model with a continuous part (i.e., slurry stocks ...

Population growth and climate change challenge our food and farming systems and provide arguments for an increased intensification of agriculture. A promising option is eco-functional intensification through organic farming, an approach based on using and enhancing internal natural resources and processes to secure and improve agricultural productivity, while minimizing negative environmental i...

The management of hydrologic catchments typically faces the challenge of keeping a reasonable balance between water quality demands and farming restrictions. In order to handle this problem it is most important to identify farming areas whose land use have a high influence on the nutrient leaching into the receiving stream. This identification can be regarded as a sensitivity analysis (SA). Cha...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that care farming practices have the potential to provide positive outcomes for young people in foster-care and residential care environments. A systematic review (searching; CINAHL, Web of Knowledge, PsychInfo) was conducted to explore how participation in care farming initiatives impacts attachment in children in foster-care and what aspects of care farming initiat...

Many contemporary forms of oppression are not primarily the result of formally organized collective action nor are they an unintended outcome of a combination of individual actions. This raises the question of collective responsibility. I argue that we can only determine who is responsible for oppression if we understand oppression as a matter of social practices that create obstacles for socia...

This study was conducted with the objective of testing the hypothesis that tomato fruits from organic farming accumulate more nutritional compounds, such as phenolics and vitamin C as a consequence of the stressing conditions associated with farming system. Growth was reduced in fruits from organic farming while titratable acidity, the soluble solids content and the concentrations in vitamin C ...