1Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan 2Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan 3Art, Science and Technology Centre for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University, Kasuga-shi, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan 4Biophysics and Electron Microscopy Section, Indian Veterinary Res...

1. General Background for Agro-Ecology 1.1. The Field of Ecology 1.2. Specifics of Agro-Ecology 2. Environmental Resources of Food Supply 3. Environmental Constrains on Food Production 4. Loss of Biological Diversity and its Potential Impact on Food Production 4.1. General causes of Biodiversity losses 4.2 Impact on Food Production 5. Water for Agriculture and Food Production 6. Energy use in F...

Precision agriculture is an important choice for the future agriculture. It is the base for precision agriculture development to change the state of small-scale farmland production and weak agricultural foundation in China gradually. Combined with the poorness of village in China, the variation of farmland and the dominance of small-scale peasant economy, this paper analyzed the adaptability of...

This research was supported by the U.S Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program under Cooperative Agreement No. 99354007797. We are grateful to Bob Chambers, Ethan Ligon, Tigran Melkonyan, David Zilberman, and seminar participants at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Texas-Dallas for their comments and sugg...

Mark S. Sisterson and Jianchi Chen, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93611; Mario A. Viveros, University of California Cooperative Extension, Bakersfield 93307; Edwin L. Civerolo and Craig Ledbetter, USDA-ARS, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center; and Russell L. Groves, Depar...

Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil resources. Both direct energy use for crop management and indirect energy use for fertilizers, pesticides and machinery production have contributed to the major increases in food production seen since the 1960s. However, the relationship between energy inputs and yields is not linear. Low-energy inputs can lead to lower yields and perversely to ...

Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Rural Health Panel receives continuing support from RUPRI, the result of a Congressional Special Grant, administered through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. REDESIGNING MEDICARE: CONSIDERATIONS FOR RURAL BENEFICIARIES AND HEALT...

In the conditions of insufficient use possibilities cooperation in improving efficiency agricultural production, food provision to population through development cooperative entrepreneurship, research work was carried out substantiate essence its features sector, develop recommendations for ensuring and effective functioning forms management on an entrepreneurial basis. The studies were using m...