Food webs of habitats as diverse as lakes or desert valleys are known to exhibit common "food-web patterns", but the detailed mechanisms generating these structures have remained unclear. By employing a stochastic, dynamical model, we show that many aspects of the structure of predatory food webs can be understood as the traces of an evolutionary history where newly evolving species avoid direc...

B spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been one of the most widely discussed animal diseases of the past 20 years. Its prominence in the US dialogue increased greatly following diagnosis of the first case in the United States in December 2003. Yet, knowledge of the disease and its many impacts on agriculture and society is limited. Many excellent review sources are available that detail the dise...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the gaps in the adoption of crop insurance in Thailand and suggest possible solutions relating to policy support and framework, implementation mechanisms, technology adoption, and awareness amongst farmers. The methodology includes a literature review, interaction with officials, rice experts and insurance experts, and discussion with farmers. A study was ...

This report addresses the challenges encountered and, to a certain extent, overcome, while health risk assessment and management were being conducted in Mae Sot, Thailand following cadmium contamination to rice, the main diet of Thais. In November 2003, Department of Agriculture (DOA), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) sent a summary report of a 6-year study revealing serious contamination of cadmi...

The meeting on Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People took place at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, 30 October–1 November 2012. The meeting was sponsored by The Center for Genetics Nutrition and Health, The Rockefeller Foundation, Green Templeton College of the University of Oxford, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Nutrilite Health Institute, Health Studies Collegiu...

Nowadays, promoting entrepreneurship to train graduates endowed with entrepreneurial traits is considered as one of the new functions of the faculties of agriculture. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to design an appropriate model for entrepreneurial faculty of agriculture in Iran. This study was of descriptive-correlational research type in which a survey method was employed for d...

Abstract This study aims to compare the suitability of two ergonomic evaluation tools, AULA and RULA, in assessing musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) potential risks oyster mushroom farmers. The was based on 26 activities involved cultivation process, observed four farms Lempake Samarinda, assessed by 12 experienced experts ergonomics, safety health, agriculture. hit rate quadratic weighted κ were...

reluctance towards implementation of precision agriculture (pa) seems to be based on lackof consideration to education, extension, and research sectors. the objective of this study isto identify educational, extensional, and research requirements in application of the pasystem. the research population included all the experts in qazvin province who are familiarwith pa concepts and pa’s equipmen...