Extension and advisory services are integral to the AIS, where now more than ever they play a brokering role, linking key actors such as producer organizations, research services, and higher education. This module looks at the history and current status of extension and advisory services and examines important topics such as pluralism, new roles for extension, new kinds of service providers, IC...

4 CSA News June 2014 related to ABR, from the development of superbugs like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to speculation about the overuse of biocides like triclosan in hand soaps. A report published in 2000 by the World Health Organization (WHO) identified ABR as one of the most critical human health challenges of the 21st century. The report observed that more than two mi...

Agriculture is a complicated system, related to a wide range of environments, which is difficult to deal with perfectly. Web-based agricultural support system (WASS) has been proposed to applicable support agricultural activities, which combines web technologies and agricultural systems. In this paper we analyze the basic characters of the web-based agricultural support system and then describe...

With the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. However the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. Robot n...

spiders are one of the most abundant invertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems that have a good potential to pest control in crops. species richness and abundance of spiders and the effects of different agricultural practices on these predators were studied in winter wheat fields in shirvan, mashhad and gonabad, cities in northeast of iran. in each region, high and low input fields of winter whea...

Global agricultural feeds over 7 billion people, but is also a leading cause of environmental degradation. Understanding how alternative agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice drive environmental degradation is necessary for reducing agriculture’s environmental impacts. A meta-analysis of life cycle assessments that includes 742 agricultural systems and ...

most developing countries have achieved productivity growth in economic sectors like agriculture for more than 30 years. universities and governmental research centers have tried to generate knowledge with direct social and economic effects during these decades. so, productivity and production growth can be attributed to technological changes made possible through investment in agricultural res...

this paper tries to comparatively study agricultural products insurance factors and the international agricultural products insurance systems in developed and developing countries. it analyses these supporting systems typology form the view points of variables such as covered risk factors, program insurer and the insured, insurance projects operational fundamentals, insurance system type (priva...