Drawing on a pragmatic approach, this paper provides an analysis of government support for organic farming in Ireland. Varying levels of encouragement and programmes are provided to farmers in their conversion from conventional to organic production, and in their maintenance of organic production. As support policies vary across regions and are linked to European Union legislation, it is challe...

Over the last 40 years, the Yucatan Peninsula has experienced the implementation and promotion of development programs that have economically and ecologically shaped this region of Mexico. Nowadays, tourist development has become the principal catalyst of social, economic, and ecological changes in the region. All these programs, which are based on a specialization rationale, have historically ...

Farnesol, an isoprenoid, improves metabolic abnormalities in mice via both 1 PPARα-dependent and -independent pathways 2 3 Tsuyoshi Goto 1, , Young-Il Kim , Kozue Funakoshi , Aki Teraminami , Taku Uemura , 4 Shizuka Hirai , Joo-Young Lee , Makoto Makishima , Rieko Nakata , Hiroyasu Inoue , 5 Hiroyuki Senju , Masayoshi Matsunaga , Fumihiko Horio , Nobuyuki Takahashi 1, , and 6 Teruo Kawada 1,2, ...

1 suppresses the induction of UCP1 level in mice 2 Tomoya Sakamoto*, Takahiro Nitta*, Koji Maruno, 3 Yu-Sheng Yeh, Hidetoshi Kuwata, Koichi Tomita, Tsuyoshi 4 Goto , Nobuyuki Takahashi , and Teruo Kawada 3 5 1 Laboratory of Molecular Function of Food, Division of Food 6 Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, 7 Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan 8 2 Center for Genet...

Antibiotic resistance, a global concern, is particularly pressing in developing nations, including India, where the burden of infectious disease is high and healthcare spending is low. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) was established to develop actionable policy recommendations specifically relevant to low- and middle-income countries where suboptimal access to antibiotics - ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations promotes nutrition interventions considering food as the basis for action, given the strategic role of food and the agricultural sector to improve food security for the community; thus, a large number of people, especially the poor, who participate directly or indirectly in agricultural activities are able to obtain benefits from its m...

In developing countries, small scale integrated agriculture acts as a tool for supplying the fast-growing human population with high-quality protein, additional income to poor and food security to household, especially women. This study was conducted in different SLOPBBangladesh project areas of Patuakhali, a coastal district of Bangladesh to observe the effect of small scale integrated agricul...

For centuries swidden was an important farming practice found across the girth of Southeast Asia. Today, however, these systems are changing and sometimes disappearing at a pace never before experienced. In order to explain the demise or transitioning of swidden we need to understand the rapid and massive changes that have and are occurring in the political and economic environment in which the...

Subtherapeutic antibiotics have been widely used in agriculture since the 1950s, which can be accumulated in human body through various approaches and may have long-term consequences. However, there is limited information about the link between chronic subtherapeutic antibiotic exposure and the outcome of ischemic brain injury. Here we showed that long-term treatment with subtherapeutic chlorte...

China is a populous agricultural country, the arable land is the most basic resources which is needed for agricultural production, the quality of arable land has a direct impact on the entire agricultural production and development ,so to carry out the Evaluation of Farmland is a very important foundation work which is advantage to know china’s arable land resources and to improve the efficienc...