Biotechnology and Developing Country Agriculture

Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007

This study is part of a larger investigation which focused on determining and comparing the perceptions of agriculture teachers and science teachers on integrating science into agricultural education programs. Science and agriculture teachers' perceptions of barriers to integrating science, the support of stakeholders, and collaboration between science and agriculture teachers and programs were investigated. The majority of both science and agriculture teachers were in agreement that funding, equipment, and the science teachers' lack of an agricultural background were barriers to integration. However, they differed in their level of agreement about curriculum and teachers' philosophical differences as barriers. Both groups agreed their school has strong science and agriculture programs, that collaboration would benefit students, and that the two departments have something to offer each other. However, fewer than one-half of teachers in both groups reported they work in a collaborative effort with the other department.

Outlook on Agriculture

Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction. Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative Agriculture. But what is Regenerative Agriculture, and why is it gaining such prominence? Which problems does it solve, and how? Here we address these questions from an agronomic perspective. The term Regenerative Agriculture has actually been in use for some time, but there has been a resurgence of interest over the past 5 years. It is supported from what are often considered opposite poles of the debate on agriculture and food. Regenerative Agriculture has been promoted strongly by civil society and NGOs as well as by many of the major multi-national food companies. Many practices promoted as regenerative, including crop residue retention, cover cropping and reduced tillage are central to the canon of ‘good agricultural practices’, while others are contested and at best niche (e.g. permac...

2020

This article presents the relationship between community resilience and urban agriculture as a strategy for food and nutrition security forthe vulnerable urban group. Through a systematic literature review and using thematic analysis, the study reveals four related domains identified as food security, food production, food flow, and resilience strategy. The community resiliency was presented through the contribution of urban agriculture as part of community preparedness, response, and recovery in short and long-term impacts. The study concludes that green spaces provision in a residential area act as a viable support system underlined the economic, social, and environment interaction. Keywords: urban agriculture; vulnerable urban group; community resilience; food insecurity eISSN 2398-4279 ©2020 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

Journal of Agricultural Education

Nationwide, agricultural education has experienced a shortage of qualified school-based agriculture teachers for over four decades. Students who seek careers as agriculture teachers are often those who participated in agricultural education and FFA in high school. The Ag Ed FIT-Choice® Model (Lawver 2009; Lawver & Torres, 2012) was used as the investigative framework for this phenomenological study, which sought to explore how active participation in school-based agricultural education programs influenced students' choice to major in agricultural education and pursue a career in teaching. Seven agricultural education majors who participated in agricultural education and FFA in high school participated in a focus group interview. Transcripts of the focus group interview were analyzed and coded for thematic content using open, axial, and selective coding protocols. Five themes emerged from the data, which included, 1) socializer influencers, 2) social value 3) passion for agriculture, 4) alignment with personal values, and 5) agricultural education factors. The agricultural education factors theme was broken into four subthemes, which include agriculture teacher encouragement, FFA events, increased self-efficacy through a quality program, and post-high school opportunities. Based on the findings, implications and recommendations for recruitment are discussed.

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021

With the deep combination of both modern information technology and traditional agriculture, the era of agriculture 4.0, which takes the form of smart agriculture, has come. Smart agriculture provides solutions for agricultural intelligence and automation. However, information security issues cannot be ignored with the development of agriculture brought by modern information technology. In this paper, three typical development modes of smart agriculture (precision agriculture, facility agriculture, and order agriculture) are presented. Then, 7 key technologies and 11 key applications are derived from the above modes. Based on the above technologies and applications, 6 security and privacy countermeasures (authentication and access control, privacy-preserving, blockchain-based solutions for data integrity, cryptography and key management, physical countermeasures, and intrusion detection systems) are summarized and discussed. Moreover, the security challenges of smart agriculture are analyzed and organized into two aspects: 1) agricultural production, and 2) information technology. Most current research projects have not taken agricultural equipment as potential security threats. Therefore, we did some additional experiments based on solar insecticidal lamps Internet of Things, and the results indicate that agricultural equipment has an impact on agricultural security. Finally, more technologies (5 G communication, fog computing, Internet of Everything, renewable energy management system, software defined network, virtual reality, augmented reality, and cyber security datasets for smart agriculture) are described as the future research directions of smart agriculture.

Journal of Agricultural Education, 1996

The purpose of this study was to assess secondary educators' knowledge of and attitude toward agriculture. The population consisted of teachers and administrators in 245 secondary schools in Missouri that offered an Agricultural Education program as part of the curriculum. The sample consisted of 200 randomly selected schools and a cohort group of educators representing: administrators, agriculture teachers, language arts teachers, mathematics teachers, science teachers, and social science teachers. Data collection instruments included 35 items to assess respondents' knowledge of agriculture and 35 items to assess their attitude toward agriculture. Usable responses were collected from 616 educators representing 146 schools. Data analysis revealed that agriculture teachers were the most knowledgeable and had the most positive attitude toward agriculture. Language arts and mathematics teachers were the least knowledgeable and had the least positive attitude toward agriculture. However, each of the educator groups surveyed were judged to be knowledgeable of and had a positive attitude toward the industry of agriculture. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that pre-service and in-service programs be conducted to promote strategies to integrate agricultural concepts and illustrations into other courses in the secondary school curriculum.

African Journal of …, 2009

African Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 4 (12), pp. 1334-1350, December, 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJAR ISSN 1991-637X © 2009 Academic Journals ... The role of agriculture education and training on ... Gazi Mahabubul Alam1*, Kazi ...

Environmental sustainability is important to protect and to ensure a high quality of life. Therefore, Malaysian government had put an effort by establishing a Malaysia Standard for good practices in agriculture. However, some guidelines in Malaysia Standard need to be improved. Therefore, the proposed of this study is to identify and improve Good Agriculture Practice in Malaysia Standard. Method used was by reviewing the past research and selecting the sustainable agriculture practices from existing study and international guidelines. As a result, there were six guidelines in Good Agriculture Practice need to be improved to achieve a better quality of life.

Social Change, 2018

The objective of the study was to examine levels of absolute poverty and relative poverty (inequality) within and across various occupations practised by the Mishing tribe of Assam. The tribe inhabits the flood-prone riverine areas of Assam, a state located in India's Northeastern region. Our study was based on primary data collected from two sample districts of Assam: Dhemaji, remote, completely rural and extremely flood-prone and Sivasagar, a district with some urban characteristics and less susceptible to floods. The research revealed a high level of poverty among casual labour working in agricultural and non-agricultural areas. Additionally, it was observed that inequality was higher among the selfemployed working in the agriculture, non-agriculture and services sector. For the diversification of agriculture, expansion of the rural non-farm sector; provision of socioeconomic safety nets; creation of employment opportunities; improvement in infrastructure and a long-lasting solution of the region's flood and erosion problem, we recommend an equity-based approach to raise the standard of living of Mishing tribes and their villages.