It is a globally important challenge to meet increasing demands for resources and, at the same time, protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. Farming is usually regarded as a major threat to biodiversity due to its expansion into natural areas. We compared biodiversity of bees and wasps between heterogeneous small-scale farming areas and protected forest in northern coastal Belize, Central ...

This paper provides new perspectives on USA landlord–tenant contracting, where technical change is creating scale economies in farming and farm enlargements, and results that are important to the sustainability of land use and environmental quality. We develop a conceptual model of landlord–tenant contracting that emphasizes minimizing transactions costs and setting incentives for effort when t...

New Zealand’s success in raising agricultural productivity has been accompanied by higher input use, leading to adverse effects on the environment. Until recently, analysis of farm performance has tended to ignore such negative externalities. The current emphasis on environmental issues has led dairy farmers to target improvements in both environmental performance and productivity. Therefore, m...

Grabbing of pastoralists’ traditional land to put it under the commercial farming system, which has widely been adopted as a development and investment strategy in Sudan, is creating a cruel dilemma of increasing both resource conflict and environmental degradation. This is one of the fundamental reasons that the country has earned the reputation as a home of bloody c...

The salmon farming production chain is structured in four consecutive phases: freshwater, seawater, plant processing, and distribution and marketing. The phases interact in a pull manner, freshwater stocks fish to meet seawater’s demand, seawater produces to meet plant processing biomass demand, and the processing plant produces to satisfy consumers’ demand. Freshwater planning decisions are in...

This paper explores two questions facing the use of concept ‘good farmer’ in rural studies: what are most appropriate methods to understand good farming; and is relevance non-western countries? The these issues context pig farmers' biosecurity decisions daily disease management practices New Territories Hong Kong. Specifically, we argue that broaden farming concept, need devise specific methodo...

A need shared by current and future generations is a reliable food supply. Components of agroecosystems include food and fiber production, domestic and wild biodiversity, surrounding environments, local and global markets, and human communities (Francis et al. 2003). Thus, understanding and maintaining agroecosystems will require a multidisciplinary approach and decision-making tools that integ...

This Essay offers the first in-depth examination of the role of colorblind constitutionalism in the history of Brown v. Board of Education. In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, such an examination is needed today more than ever. In this case, Chief Justice John Roberts drew on the history of Brown to support his c...

The landmark 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jackson v. Indiana prohibited the indefinite commitment of criminal defendants on grounds of incompetence to stand trial if there was no substantial probability of restoration to competency in the foreseeable future. Such defendants are still subject to ordinary civil commitment; however, not all will meet civil commitment criteria, given that th...