Programmes of education for sustainable development are important to reformulate and revise educational programmes in Sustainable Agriculture. Higher institutes emerge as learning places integrate into the system, through graduation MSc programmes, provide a more effective response higher environmental agriculture concerns. The aim this study was identify best practices be included programme ba...

Agricultural production relies heavily on manmade chemicals used as fertilizers and pesticides, and to regulate plant growth. Pesticides are released intentionally into the environment to control insects, weeds, plant diseases and other pests that affect crop or animal production, as well as to control insects that spread human diseases. Pesticides have a well-established role in agriculture an...

In this paper, we consider the effect of increasing the area of agricultural land under organic practises. We assumed that organic agriculture does not have effective means of pathogen control. We model pathogen dispersal with a diffusive logistic equation in which the growth/death rate is spatially heterogeneous. We find that if the ratio of the organic plots to conventional plots is below a c...

In the agrarian context of early 20th century, networks experts and interest groups were created. These formed institutions across state borders to achieve prestige derived from their supranational character ostensible technical scientific capacity. The objective this article is analyse impact in Spain International Institute Agriculture (IIA), year its creation until advent Primo de Rivera dic...

This unique two-week elective, offered each February, is designed for fourth year medical students and residents in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and other disciplines who have an interest in public health and health policy but no advanced degree in these subjects (MPH or JD). The course combines class lectures by health policy experts and site visits in the Washington, D.C. area with a g...

The role of extension dairy, poultry, and livestock educators is evolving rapidly; and to be relevant, we must continue to provide science-based information to an ever-broadening clientele. Campus-based specialists have remained insulated from this shifting paradigm longer than fieldbased staff that often facilitate disputes involving agriculture. Examples of conflicts involving animal agricult...

In the intensive livestock production systems, with decrease in grazing land and intensification of agriculture, the animal feeds are most likely to be contaminated with pesticides, dioxins, radionuclide, heavy metals, bacterial, fungal / mycotoxin contaminants etc., which may , market, it is the need of the hour to produce the livestock products free from contaminants. The feeds and fodders ar...

Climate change affects agriculture differently due to the heterogeneity in bio-physical and economic conditions in Austria. Therefore, stakeholder and expert knowledge is required in regional vulnerability assessments to address region specific challenges and develop compatible adaptation strategies. In a transdisciplinary research project, a working group consisting of regional stakeholders an...

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In this study, a cross-cultural analysis was undertaken to compare the knowledge of organic producers and agricultural experts in Iran concerning concepts good farming, farmer, farming field sustainable agriculture. We put conversation with Bourdieu’s cultural capital, identity, dynamics ‘rules game’ determine gaps between farmers field. Data are derived from interviews 45 52 experts. The findi...