A Károly Róbert Főiskolán 1994 őszén beállított nehézfémterhelési tartamkísérlet (Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) hetedik évében őszi árpát (Hordeum vulgare L.), nyolcadik évében fehér mustárt (Sinapis alba L.) termesztettünk. A talaj és a növények kadmiumtartalmának...

The present paper approaches a usual problem in the industrialised area, respectively Zlatna Area in Romania. The aim of this research is to establish the heavy metal soil contamination degree using modern research methods namely spectrometric and stripping methods. The results pointed out very...

Hazardous heavy metal pollution of soils is one of the most important environmental problems throughout the world. In fact, heavy metals have a significant toxicity for humans, animals, plant and microorganisms. Our results indicate that enzymatic activities are a great utility for understanding...

The volatility of agricultural markets has increased remarkably in recent years. In spite of this, the way in which supply chain actors perceive market volatility has only rarely been analyzed. This paper seeks to close this research gap by presenting empirical findings about how the volatility...

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.

The civil war in Côte d’Ivoire has caused an increase in household size due to returnees and a decrease in remittance received in rural Burkina Faso. This paper, taking advantage of a rare dataset covering the covariate shocks caused by the Ivorian Crisis, examines empirically the impact of...

The purpose of this study is to assess and evaluate the most important risks in selected Europeanand international food chains from the perspective of the buying company. The primary objectiveis to identify the “non-acceptable” risks in terms of damage potential and likelihood of...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the interaction between consumers’ past eating behaviors, risk perceptions and future information processing procedure. In the study, participants were required to choose whether or not to eat chicken that was potentially be tainted with Avian...

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