This article examines the need for disclosure of non-financial information in agricultural organizations. The authors use comparison method to prove disclose social, environmental and corporate governance spheres. importance dividing into these areas is explained by ESG agenda. emphasize that there a sufficient number studies confirming positive impact on various companies. It was noted both di...

Lt. Governor Peeler closed his welcoming speech at this NABC meeting by stressing the importance of family farming to South Carolina, and the fact that much more needs to be done to help save family farms. I agree. Even so, when we discuss research, technology and so on in relation to family farming, there are often clashes among differing groups because competing social values relating to the ...

Agricultural policies are increasingly replaced by agro-environmental and rural-development polices. The rationale behind this evolution is that the policies seek to enhance the sustainability of agricultural systems and contributions from these systems to sustainable development at large. The same can be argued for agricultural innovations; they are increasingly aimed at serving a range of sus...

Previous quantitative assessments of likely impacts of recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (in particular the Agenda 2000) differ across empirical studies. Differences are mainly due to the ways the policy instruments are taken into account (explicit modeling or implicit modeling i.e. using ad-valorem equivalents). The aim of this paper is to assess empirically the impacts of recen...

The twenty-five fold expansion of oil palm cultivation in Sarawak over the past two and a half decades constitutes the most rapid and radical transformation of the agrarian landscape ever seen in that state. From 23,000 ha in 1980, mostly in government schemes, the area planted with oil palm has increased to over 580,000 ha in 2006, mostly in private estates, closing in on an official target of...

In times of heightened uncertainty and unpredictability it is believed that incrementalist approaches that are not resolute to order and control in information security risk management (ISRM) are necessary. This is because information security incidents that occur in context are noted to differ one from another. Incrementalist approaches to ISRM apply when contextual security risk instances are...

Regena Spratling, PhD, RN, CPNP, Rita H. Pickler, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Christina Calamaro, PhD, CRNP, Juanita Conkin Dale, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, Sharron Docherty, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Catherine J. Goodhue, MN, CPNP, Jill Kilanowski, PhD, RN, APRN, CPNP, FAAN, Ann Marie McCarthy, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary C. O’Laughlen, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAAAAI, Lois S. Sadler, PhD, RN, PNP-BC, FAAN, Leigh Small, PhD, ...

Scholars have called for more critical considerations of social justice and tourism that align with the tenets, values, practices sustainability, transformation, change. The aim this research was to map critically assess status refugee-related in tourism, particularly regards extent which it adopts, or extends, a justice-oriented agenda. A systematic literature review existing studies conducted...

The paper reports the first results of the EU funded Project WADI (Sustainability of European Irrigated Agriculture under Water Directive and Agenda 2000). The objective of the WADI project is to evaluate the economic, social and environmental sustainability of European irrigated farming under different scenarios concerning water policy and the Common Agricultural Policy. The methodology relies...