Private R&D is a major source of innovation and productivity growth in agriculture worldwide. This paper examines trends and determinants of agricultural R&D in China. Results show that while the public sector monopolized agricultural research until recently, private agricultural R&D has grown rapidly since 2000, driven largely by agribusiness privatization. Public-sector R&D investments in bas...

Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (A.J.S., G.A.P., R.C.S.); Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (W.W.X.); Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 (D.L.H.); United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural R...

This paper sets out to develop a framework for characterizing agricultural growth orientations. We identify four main components in the global food system (technology, institutions, people, and natural resources). Based on the extent to which any two of these components are important in driving the growth of agriculture, we distinguish four main orientations of agricultural growth: local food, ...

XIAOLONG YAN, PING WU, HONGQING LING, GUOHUA XU, FANGSEN XU and QIFA ZHANG* Laboratory of Plant Nutritional Genetics, Root Biology Center, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Ins...

Sarah J. Pethybridge, Botanical Resources Australia – Agricultural Services Pty. Ltd., Ulverstone, Tasmania, 7315, Australia; David H. Gent, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit and Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR 97331; Paul D. Esker, University of Wisconsin, De...

This paper focuses on the AGRIS Application Profile (AGRIS AP), a standard created specifically to enhance description, exchange and subsequent retrieval of agricultural Document-Like Information Objects (DLIOs). The AGRIS AP provides a minimum interoperability layer through which agricultural information can be described and exchanged. The standard, developed in light of the new AGRIS vision, ...

To effectively manage water resources in agricultural production, it is necessary to understand the spatiotemporal variation of the water footprint (WF) and the influences of agricultural inputs. Employing spatial autocorrelation analysis and a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model, we explored the spatial variations of the WF and their relationships with agricultural inputs from 1998 ...

China is at a critical stage of transformation from traditional to modern agriculture and its agriculture and rural economic sector faces severe challenges of shortage of natural resources, environmental degradation, agricultural disasters, sluggish income growth of farmers and widening disparity between urban and rural areas. The fundamental solution to these problems lies with the advancement...

In order to effectively implement sharing and integrated application of agricultural remote monitoring data, which is of distributed areas, various types, different systems and a large amount of data, across different areas, departments and systems, new networked framework is needed to be introduced to promote sharing of resources. In this paper, based on grid, considering the current situation...

With rapid development of computer science, the means of the agricultural park planning are renewed continuously. Based on the long-term practice in the agricultural park planning, we put forward innovatively the integrated information processing technology in three dimensions in the paper, that is, information, time and spatial dimensions, On the basis of the coupling relation of multi-dimensi...