More than 4 years has passed since the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Immediately after the accident, 40 to 50 academic staff of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo created an independent team to monitor the behavior of the radioactive materials in the field and their effects on agricultural farm lands, forests, rivers, animals, etc. ...

This article reviews literature on competitiveness of agricultural product and input markets. Although researchers in the United States and Europe emphasize different stages of the agricultural and food marketing system, their focus is similar: extent of buyer power, although both have largely ignored the sector supplying inputs to agriculture. The key conclusion is that there is little robust ...

Mitigation of climate change requires a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. It motivates an increase renewable electricity generation. Farmers can develop energy and their profitability by allocating agricultural land to PV power plants. This transition from crop production generation needs ecological economic assessment alternative utilization. The novelty this study is integrated that links...

Co-firing biomass plants are of extensive demand due to utilization of both agricultural residues (main) and natural gas (stand-by). Researchers have shown that one strategic decision in establishment of agricultural residues based plants, is location optimization problem. Moreover, mismatch between agricultural lands and biomass plants can lead to high transportation costs and related carbon d...

this study concerns with calculation of iran's agricultural bilateral trade costs and major influential factors in iran's bilateral trade with developed and developing countries. the main findings revealed that over the period 1995-2010 weighted average of agricultural trade cost with developing partners has declined by 44, and with developed partners has increased by 22 percent. this reduction...

The challenges in deploying robust Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in agricultural environments are limited power supply and variability of wireless propagation channel that restrict performance. Proposed protocols do not meet the challenges for realistic simulation and evaluation of WSN for agricultural applications. The design of LEACH protocol is, for the most part, efficient for many applic...

The evolution of wireless sensor network technology has enabled us to develop advanced systems for realtime monitoring. By forming wireless sensor network (WSN) we can make good monitoring systems in the Agricultural practices. The advantages of using Wireless sensor networks in agriculture are distributed data collection and monitoring, monitoring of climate, irrigation and nutrient supply. He...

Preferences with respect to agricultural policy have changed in Germany and Switzerland. In the middle of the 20 century, food self sufficiency and a certain cultural solidarity with farmers were central issues. Today, farmers are expected to contribute to environmental protection and safe food. Switzerland and Germany are two examples of countries where national agricultural policies have atte...