Organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .The purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of Organic Agriculture in West Azerbaijan Province (Iran) farms. The target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in We...

Purpose: The development of leisure agriculture is an important means of agricultural industry structure adjustment of Henan province, China, to realize the transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. Design/methodology/approach: The SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis of Henan leisure agriculture will contribute to the sustainable development of Henan lei...

Brazil is one of the most biodiversity rich countries in the world, including a wealth of agricultural biodiversity in both wild and cultivated forms. This is particularly noticeable in southern Brazil, home to a wide array of underutilized food species whose genetic diversity is maintained mostly by farmers through on-farm management practices. Farmers’ contribution in safeguarding and keeping...

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York [J. C.]; Channing Laboratory [J. M., M. J. S., L. M. H., D. J. H.], Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Departments of Epidemiology [M. J. S., L. M. H., D. J. H.] and Nutrition [M. J. S.], Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Jean Ma...

1Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center detachment USDA ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32068, [email protected] 2U.S. Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6, Pearl Harbor, HI 3U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo, Egypt PSC 452, Box 154, FPO AE 09835-9998 4U.S. Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the global amount of forest and woodland consumed annually for curing tobacco between 1990 and 1995; to estimate tobacco's share in total deforestation; to rank tobacco-growing countries by the degree of impact of tobacco deforestation; and to indicate environmental criticality emerging from tobacco's impact on forest resources. DESIGN Production of country-specific estim...

The purpose of this study was to determine how high school students perceived science and agriculture after completing a yearlong biology class that used animal agriculture as the context. This study utilized a case-study approach. The population for the study included all students who participated in a biology course utilizing animal agriculture as the context for teaching biology (N=531). Mor...