As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects millennia human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This review describes key developments prehistoric kinship, from matricentric hominin evolution to Neolithic transition agriculture heterogeneous resilience matriliny. Starting with our ancestors, evolved among a cooperative bree...

Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated over 10,000 years ago and are part of human societies since beginning agriculture. play a major role both in commercial farming systems subsistence agriculture systems, particularly tropical, subtropical Mediterranean regions where they crucial for supply meat, milk, fibre dung. This review concerns Serrana breed, most important numerous ind...

In 2001, the UK was hit by Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) precipitating one of the biggest crises ever to affect the UK farming system. The crisis unfolded as a series of information and communication problems, from government to farmers and from farmers to farmers, with consequences for action in a time of crisis, social support, and the maintenance of community. What happens to a farming commun...

Sustainable supply of food and energy without posing any threat to environment is the current demand of our society in view of continuous increase in global human population and depletion of natural resources of energy. Cyanobacteria have recently emerged as potential candidates who can fulfill abovementioned needs due to their ability to efficiently harvest solar energy and convert it into bio...

It is well known that the performance of simple models of economic growth improves substantially through the introduction of subsistence consumption. How to compute subsistence needs, however, is a difficult and controversially discussed issue. Here, I reconsider the linear (Ak) growth model with subsistence consumption and show that the evolution of savings rates and economic growth rates over...

In a modern globalised world, military and peace keeping forces often face situations which require very subtle and well planned operations taking into account cultural and social aspects of a given region and its population as well as dynamic psychological awareness related to recent events which can have impact on the attitude of the civilians. The goal of the EUSAS project is to develop a pr...

Lavender crops have had an impressive continuous development in recent years, being currently a suitable alternative to other traditional because they can yield high profit per hectare. This be especially useful Romania, with its prevalence of subsistence and semi-subsistence farms. study aims analyse the issue small emergent lavender farms context current Romanian agricultural background, incl...

Considerable attention has been devoted to contaminants (mainly PCBs and mercury) in subsistence foods (particularly fish) from various parts of the world. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to examining mercury levels in a full range of subsistence foods from a particular region. While managers and scientists compute risk based on site-specific data on contaminant levels and...

The dominant direct physical processes responsible for desertification are water erosion, wind erosion and salinization. Other threats that degrade the soil include loss of biodiversity, organic matter, fire, changing resources, compaction, sealing contamination. Soil management inevitably combines human effects. Climate, which is most important driver systems, now being rapidly modified by act...