a U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois, USA b U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Dynamics Laboratory, Auburn, Alabama, USA c Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA d Department of Crop Sciences, University of...

THOMAS A. SPIES,∗††† JAY D. MILLER,† JOSEPH B. BUCHANAN,‡ JOHN F. LEHMKUHL,§ JERRY F. FRANKLIN,∗∗ SEAN P. HEALEY,†† PAUL F. HESSBURG,§ HUGH D. SAFFORD,‡‡ WARREN B. COHEN,∗ REBECCA S.H. KENNEDY,∗ ERIC E. KNAPP,§§ JAMES K. AGEE,∗∗ AND MELINDA MOEUR∗∗∗ ∗U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A. †U.S. Departmen...

As a kind of advanced productive forces, the advantage and potential of E-commerce could not be ignored for upgrading the industrialization degree of agriculture, adjusting the agricultura structure, reducing the transaction cost of agricultural products and enlarging the market sale range and channels of agricultural products. This paper analyzes the present status and problems of application ...

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, a major e€ort has been launched in Canada to identify cost-e€ective measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Agriculture is an important contributor of methane and nitrous oxide in Canada. Over one-third of methane and almost four-®fths of nitrous oxide emissions are from agriculture either directly or indirectly. By 2010 primary agricultural p...

Filling and submission of electronic forms is a key issue for egovernment, since most electronic services offered in this context include some variant of electronic forms. Insofar, IT experts are placed in the centre of electronic forms services lifecycles, undertaking the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance phases. This practice, however, implies various impediments, such as the n...

* Vinod Ahuja is a faculty member at the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Elizabeth Redmond is a consultant at the Livestock Information, Sector Analysis and Policy Branch, FAO, Rome. This paper was prepared during Vinod Ahuja’s visit to FAO in April-May 2001. We sincerely acknowledge the inputs received from Henning Steinfeld and Joachim Otte on ...

Molecular phylogeny of the nematode genus Longidorus (Nematoda: Longidoridae) with description of three new species Carlos Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Carolina Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, Miguel Montes-Borrego, Juan E. Palomares-Rius & Pablo Castillo* Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Apdo. 4084, 14080 Córdoba, Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroal...

Departamento de Nutrição e Produção Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo, 13630-000 Pirassununga, SP, Brazil United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US Dairy Forage Research Center, U.S.A. Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. Department of Biological Sciences, University of No...

Duccio Rocchini 1,2,3 1 University of Trento, Center Agriculture Food Environment, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 S. Michele all’Adige (TN), Italy; [email protected] 2 University of Trento, Centre for Integrative Biology, Via Sommarive, 14, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy 3 Fondazione Edmund Mach, Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 S. Mich...