The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase their exports of the agricultural and food products. But such objective and desire have often been st...

There is now significant policy and academic interest in the governance of science and technology for sustainable development. In recent years this has come to include a growing emphasis on issues of public understanding of science and innovative processes of deliberative and inclusive policy-making around controversial technologies such as nuclear power and agricultural biotechnology. Concern ...

s of papers presented at the International Conference on Rodent Biology and Management, held at Beijing, China, 5-9 October 1998 Editors: Zhi-Bin Zhang, Lyn Hinds, Grant Singleton and Zu-Wang Wang Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

The applications of and recent issues on life cycle assessment (LCA) for agriculture are reviewed in order to provide an integrated perspective on environmental and food safety issues. First, the relationship between the good agricultural practice (GAP) approach and LCA of agricultural production systems is discussed. Second, applications of LCA to agricultural production systems are surveyed m...

One of humanity's major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food production will have to rise by 70 percent between 2000 and 2050 to meet effective demand which poses major challenges to food production systems. Doing so without compromising environmental integrity is an even greater challenge. This study look...

ISNAR, one of the 16 Future Harvest Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), seeks to contribute to the generation and use of knowledge that fosters sustainable and equitable agricultural development. ISNAR's mission is to help bring about innovation in agricultural research institutions to increase the contribution of research to agricultural ...

Biological Resources and Post-harvest Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8686, Japan (A.J., K.M., D.T., K.N., K.Y.-S.); Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology (S.K., K.Y.-S.) and Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry (E.Y.), Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–8657, Japan; Departme...

*Rachael Goodhue is an assistant professor, Dale Heien a professor, Hyunok Lee a research economist, and Daniel Sumner a professor all in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Sumner is also the director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center (AIC). Goodhue, Heien, and Sumner are members of the Giannini Foundation of Ag...