In recent years, serious food safety accidents are of frequent occurrence. Although government has taken many practical and feasible measures to contain food safety accidents, new food safety accidents still emerge in large numbers. In this situation, food safety control is a long-term and...

By using conceptual model of BPEIR (Behavior-Pressure-Effect-Impact- Response) and Delphi method, we establish the evaluation index system of agricultural circular economy including four indices, namely index of socio-economic development, index of reducing input of resources, index of recycling...

Based on literature review, according to relevant consumption data in Hunan Statistical Yearbook and China Statistical Yearbook during 1978-2009, the thesis selects three indexes involving the average income per rural resident, per capita living expenses of rural residents and per capita savings...

This paper firstly introduces development history of China’s farmers’ specialized cooperatives and connotation and mechanism of tobacco farmers’ specialized cooperatives. Then, it analyzes current development situations of tobacco farmers’ specialized cooperatives in...

The agro-ecosystem is a complex system, with various parameters that can impact on its productivity. Over time, human beings have put the sector under stress due to their demands for food and other agricultural products from it. The proposed Ecological-Footprint Agro-Ecosystem Model (EFAM) has...

Effective solutions for integrating agricultural development and conservation of biodiversity at the landscape scale remain to be identified. We present a case study in an intensively farmed French cereal plain, where the reintroduction of grasslands has been proposed first for conservation...

The present paper attempts to identify the determinants of the relation between the natural system and the human system in the rural area from Ţara Haţegului – Retezat. The natural system and the human system from the rural area represent a coupled system, where people interact with the...