The emergy evaluation of the Ladakh socio-economic system and traditional agriculture is presented. Ladakh is a region of West Himalaya (State of Jammu and Kashmir, northern India), geographically classified as “high cold desert” (altitude ranging from 2300 m to 7672 m a.s.l.), located among the Karakoram Range, the Himalayan Range and the Tibetan Plateau. The region is poor in natural resource...

How important are the 'non-traditional' economic roles of agriculture in development? Randy Stringer Some good reasons explain why early approaches to identifying agriculture’s economic roles resulted in a one-way strategic path that involved the flow of resources towards the industrial sector and urban centres. In an effort to provide a more comprehensive view of the roles that agriculture pla...

The way we regulate food and agricultural systems is inherently of ethical concern. Thus, we are dealing with issues relevant to moral philosophy. Agricultural ethics is an emerging discipline which is principally concerned with topics involving public policy. Agriculture – ethical approaches contrasts the traditional concept of moral philosophy and applied ethics. When we try to face specific ...

China is a big agricultural country with long history, and has created brilliant civilization. Agriculture always been an important foundation of China's national economy made great achievements. At present, promoting sustainable development become part the strategic adjustment economic mode, it significance to explore strive blaze path Chinese characteristics.

Introduction Much of the early development and diffusion of sustainable agriculture information has occurred outside of traditional avenues for agricultural information exchange. Studies have shown that farmers engaged in sustainable agriculture obtain most of their information on sustainable practices predominately from other farmers, followed by private non-profits, other educational organiza...

E-learning is a modern way of learning now days. It includes electronic media in the field of education. E-learning makes use of (ICT) information and communication technology. Now a day, In every field like learning in medical or learning in agriculture, e-learning is going popular to use. E-learning involves various types of media that provide video, audio, images and text. E-learning uses th...

Farmmanagement information systems (FMIS) have steadily increased in their level of sophistication as they have included new technologies with Internet connectivity being the latest addition. However, few FMIS have used the full capabilities of the Internet, and the emerging concept of precision agriculture has little or no support in the current commercially available FMIS. FMIS for precision ...

Regimes of protection for biodiversity throughout the agricultural landscape are needed to support the agriculture sector in general and farmers in particular. There are many opportunities to establish protective regimes that will contribute to the agriculture sector through “protect-and-connect” policies and practices. These can also contribute to the biodiversity value of natural protected ar...