| |
A review of functional food: government, firms and consumers.
Recently, the functional food market has been confronted with some controversial dilemmas with respect to regulation; market convergence and consum...
 Login to view |
| |
A review of regulatory issues raised by genetically modified organisms in agriculture.
The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture has been controversial since the late 1990s, and the question of how to regulate the p...
Login to view |
| |
Accounting for carbon sequestration and its implications for land-use change and forestry projects.
As carbon becomes a valuable commodity traded in markets for greenhouse-gas emissions, there will be incentives to adopt land uses that capture carbon...
Login to view |
| |
Advances in sea cucumber aquaculture and prospects for commercial culture of Holothuria scabra.
Sea cucumbers have been consumed for centuries in Asia as traditional medicinal and prestige foods, said to aid wound healing, joint pain, intestinal...
Login to view |
| |
Agricultural systems: sensitivity to climate change.
Agriculture is among the sectors most directly exposed to climate variability and change, with consequences for food production and food security. T...
Login to view |
| |
Alternative crops for biodiesel feedstock.
Biodiesel, the name popularly given to fatty acid alkyl esters, has become an attractive option for the replacement of petroleum diesel ('petrodiesel'...
Login to view |
| |
An assessment of the use of the Code of Conduct for the Import and Release of Exotic Biological Cont
The Code of Conduct for the Import and Release of Exotic Biological Control Agents was endorsed by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unit...
Login to view |
| |
Animal feeding trials for assessing GMO safety: answers and questions.
The safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) plants and their derived food and feed is nowadays a matter of lively debate. Any nutritional co...
Login to view |
| |
Animal welfare - recent developments in the field.
Animal welfare science has engaged in the studies of how mainly farm animals, but to a lesser extent also sport and pet animals and laboratory animals...
Login to view |
| |
Anthocyanins and weight loss.
This review evaluates the available scientific literature relative to anthocyanins and weight loss and/or obesity with mention of other effects of a...
Login to view |