The original research question for this Biehl Internship was, “How does Cuba provide healthy, locally-produced food to the public with minimal inputs and environmental impact?” Through interviews of Cubans involved in urban agriculture, the study would explore how technology, research, policy, social norms, and collective decision-making contribute to the country’s local food movement. The inte...

Abstract Biodynamic agriculture (BD agriculture) was presented as an alternative form of by the philosopher Rudolf Steiner and is nowadays considered one forms organic agriculture. The objective present manuscript to critically review international scientific literature on biodynamic published in highly ranked journals assess its performance. This based a structured survey peer-reviewed indexed...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in...

1Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Fungi and Mycotoxins of Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 2Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology of Education Ministry, and School of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 3Key Laboratory of Agroecological Processing and Safety Monitoring, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China 4Ins...