Market and policy incentives that encourage agricultural intensification, such as incentives for bioenergy, may contribute to biodiversity decline when they encourage a large-scale conversion of native and seminatural ecosystems to production fields. In order to appreciate the impact of these incentives on biodiversity, it is imperative to better understand how native and semi-natural ecosystem...

This article investigates the asymmetric effects of both natural resource abundance and agriculture on economic growth in Guinea (also known as Conakry). Using nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) approach annual data from over period 1986-2020, findings tend to suggest that has a negative effect while promotes growth. More precisely, results show an increase rents leads decrease GD...

In a recent study published in BMC Medicine, Singh Ospina and colleagues outlined the important gaps between ongoing research and research needs in the field of endocrinology. Many recommendations from clinical practice guidelines are based on a low level of evidence, thereby resulting in research gaps. Despite the publication of around 25,000 randomized controlled trials each year, ongoing res...

The global challenges of food security and biodiversity are rarely addressed together, though recently there has been an increasing awareness that the two issues are closely related. The majority of land available for agriculture is already used for food production, but despite the productivity gains, one in nine people worldwide are classified as food insecure. There is an increasing risk that...

Businesses that rely on a value-added network to provide information processing and communications services are only as secure as the network itself. The customer should understand the types of processing and control services provided by such vendors, and the potential exposures that use of these networks can entail. This article describes the control issues that must be addressed, the controls...

Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the tropics. How to achieve sustainable intensification of food production systems in tropical regions that are challenged by ongoing climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity is a matter of debate. Here we h...