Farmer is a Physics learning media that functions as Learning Management System (LMS) to organize, manage, and deliver subject matter on the concept of energy its changes related work, in mechanical, chemical, electrical, heat renewable basic techniques plant production processes which refer science literacy-based flow with web format for vocational school Agriculture. The purpose this study wa...

In the mid 1980s, Brassica vegetable production in southern Queensland was at crisis point with insecticide resistance in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), leading to frequent spray failures. Through a succession of projects, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system targeted at the local Brassica pest complex was developed with farmers and industry using participative processes. Str...

Economics has looked at the decision process of politicians but the decision process of agency staff has primarily been the purview of sociologists. Agencies affect the final form of regulations, they may enforce or ignore regulations that exist, and they provide information to the political process. Policies recommended by economists for nonpoint source pollution control are seldom supported b...

The government of Viet Nam places a high priority on upgrading the quality of farmers' lives. Providing adequate occupational safety and health (OSH) protection for all farmers is an important challenge. The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) of Viet Nam trained WIND (Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development) farmer volunteers. From 2004-2007, MOLISA in cooperation wi...

With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the impact of farmer innovation is lacking. We address this issue by analyzing the effect of farmer innovation on household welfare, measured by income, consumption expenditure, and...

A critical step in the quantification of soil quality (SQ) is the selection of SQ benchmarks. The benchmarks used in this study were SQ ratings made by 32 farmer collaborators representing a range of farming systems, scales of operation and geographic locations in the Mid-Atlantic region of USA. Soils from 45 pairs of sites identified by their farmers as having good and poor SQ were sampled ove...

A dult stem cells are essential for tissue maintenance and repair. If the biology of these cells can be fully understood, their therapeutic possibilities may be limitless. To Fernando Camargo, who first worked on adult stem cells as a graduate student under Peggy Goodell (1), the possibilities of a research career also seemed endless. This enthusiastic outlook buoyed him as he skipped doing a t...

Editor ) Family medicine is not taught in Brazilian medical schools and family medicine faculty staff are absent in academic settings. Inspired by other countries associations of family medicine teachers, SOBRAMFA, the Brazilian Society for Family Medicine, was founded in 1992 as the first such society in Brazil to establish the basis and scientific method for family medicine, spreading its phi...