Received 15/4/2009 Accepted 23/1/2010 (004164) 1 Veterinary Toxicology and Toxic Plants Laboratory, Preventive Veterinary Medicine Department, Agrarian Sciences Center, State University of Londrina, Rod. Celso Garcia Cid, s/n, Km 445, Bairro Perobal, CP 6001, CEP 86051-990, Londrina, PR, Brazil, E-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding autor Determination of presence and quantification of cadmium, ...

During the last 50 years, mechanization of the rural environment, and more recently the Common Agricultural Policy have led to deep changes in the agrarian landscapes across Europe, and with special relevancy in the case of mediterranean landscapes (Pinto-Correia et al., 2004). In the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a small area of enclosures landscape persists as a relict of what had been...

The Shining Hospital is situated in the town of Pokhara in the Himalayan foothills, at an altitude of 1000 metres. To the north lie the desolate peaks of the Annapurna range, while in other directions numerous small villages are scattered among the hills. The people of these agrarian communities, together with the traders of Pokhara Bazaar, make up the hospital's catchment population of about o...

Different aspects of the dynamic or temporal of GIS are very frequently discussed and we can register new approaches and applications in this field every week. This paper analyses the possibility of the selected approaches to contribute to the temporal data processing and gives the overview of the most basic ones. The author presented part of these results also at the Agrarian Perspectives Conf...

The agrarian conflict occurred in Kintapura Village, Kintap District, Tanah Laut Regency. This study aims to analyze the by using perspective of and contestation political ecology paradigm. uses a qualitative research method with case approach. Data collection techniques used were participant observation, in-depth interviews, documentation. results showed that has made village an arena for cont...

We examine spillovers from agricultural estates to Malawian smallholders within an econometric counterfactual framework. consider economic such as income, well agrarian yields, harvests, and crop diversity. identify long-run effects of large investments on small-scale farmers. For the location estates, we use a novel OpenStreetMap dataset, while data smallholder’s stems household survey. provid...

In the following account we apply a Marxist ‘mode of production’ framework that attempts to create a better understanding of the complex relationships between society and nature. Most of the discussion of the dualism of nature/society has tended to replicate this divide as reflected in the intellectual division between the natural sciences and the social sciences. We hope to cross this analytic...