INTRODUCTION Business and governments have used both formal and informal processes to make food safety decisions. In the past, scientific data, as well as other technical, economic, and consumer research have served as the basis for much of the decision-making process, including the determination of whether the benefit of an action outweighed its costs. Data gaps always exist, however, and when...

By using classified agricultural software products registered during last 15 years from 1994 to 2009, the author analyzed data and statistics in order to look at growth in number of the agro-software packages, their application areas, and research and development organizations, as well as their contribution to the agricultural IT industry in China. Based on the analysis, the article also assess...

1Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Greek Agricultural Organization Demeter, 14123 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida ...

1Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium 2Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium •E-mail: [email protected], Tel. +32 9/2646163...

1 Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Montes Claros, MG, Brazil 2Department of Bioengineering, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Bornim, Potsdam, Germany 3Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), Campinas, SP, Brazil 4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD...

Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Technology and Food Unit, Brusselsesteenweg 370, 9090 Melle, Belgium; Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Animal Science Unit, Scheldeweg 68, 9090 Melle, Belgium; Provincial Centre for Applied Poultry Research, Poiel 77,...

The chapter reviews the generation and adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector. The first section describes models of induced innovation and experimentation, considers the political economy of public investments in agricultural research, and addresses institutions and public policies for managing innovation activity. The second section reviews the economics of technology adoptio...

INTRODUCTION It is widely known that agriculture has a long history. Starting approximately 12,000 years ago, the domestication of plants and animals began independently in several different places, including centers in West Asia, East Asia, Central America, and South America. Domestication also may have occurred in other locations, although convincing archeological evidence has not been found....

INTRODUCTION In April 2002, researchers at the Swedish National Food Administration and Stockholm University, using a new analytical procedure, announced they had discovered the presence of acrylamide in foods prepared by heating (frying, baking) at temperatures above 120°C (Swedish 2002; Tareke et al. 2002). Identification of acrylamide in these foods, which include french fries, potato chips ...