We study a Hotelling’s duopoly in world cotton market to examine the effects of Precision Agriculture’s (PA) adoption in term of strategic international trade between the United-States and Central and West Africa (CWA). We prove that US producers should be well advised to adopt PA to offer...

El desarrollo económico, la evolución de la ciencia y la tecnología, la explosión demográfica, la “cultura” informatizada, las libertades democráticas y la corrupción, han provocado una crisis moral sin precedentes, una revolución del concepto que tiene el hombre de sí mismo, de lo...

Quinoa is considered a strategic crop because it is well adapted to the adverse abiotic conditions of the Bolivian Altiplano; however, the average yield is low. Previous studies have demonstrated that quinoa yield would increase with deficit irrigation technology. Nevertheless, to irrigate...

In this work we analyse the evolution of organic agriculture in Europe from the point of view of Innovations Diffusion Theory in order to understand the characteristics of the process, and the factors that have determined its course in the past. From the corresponding diffusion models for data...

Scientific research on Greenhouse Gases (GHG) focuses mainly on CO2 emissions. But non-CO2 gases (mainly F-gases in the form of HFCs, PFCs, SF6) are more potent at trapping heat within the atmosphere. Currently, F-gases constitute a small proportion of GHG emissions but they are extremely high...

The recent transition, in Italy, to an improved sampling scheme for fisheries catch and effort data, is described, with emphasis on the interactions between civil servants and fisheries scientists and on specific features of Italian fishery resources and research that may be common with those of...

This paper presents a tentative estimate of the parameters L8 and K of the von Bertalanffy growth function, and an estimate of total mortality derived from the analysis, using the ELEFAN I and II programs, of length-frequency data on the snapper Etelis carbunculus (Lutjanidae) collected on...