Variations in availability and nutritional quality of feed resources in the tropics affect cattle production under smallholder production systems. This results in undernutrition of cattle because of fluctuations in feed and nutrient supply. The term undernutrition is very complex and not clearly understood. The end products from animal production in the forms of body growth, milk yield, reproduction and traction power are expressed as a result of the influence of undernutrition. The mechanisms involved in physiological changes need to be understood.

Summary:
"Wrong-headed agricultural and development policies, counter-insurgency activities, as well
as corruption and cronyism by the Burmese military regime, have all caused a dramatic
decrease in rice production and food security in southern Shan State over the past ten years.
The township of Mong Nai provides a good example of how food security, commonly defined
as the physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times, has

Hoe zou de land- en tuinbouw er in 2030 uit moeten zien en welke stappen moeten we daarvoor nemen? Deze vragen stonden centraal bij de toekomstverkenningen van de Systeeminnovatieonderzoeksprogramma’s. De verkenningen, gehouden met diverse vertegenwoordigers van belangengroepen, leverden interessante toekomstbeelden op waarmee beleid en onderzoek zich kunnen richten op de gewenste toekomst. Ook zijn knelpunten vastgesteld die weggenomen moeten worden om de weg naar de toekomst vrij te maken.

In de Systeeminnovatieprogramma’s voor de geïntegreerde en biologische open teelten zijn drie innovatieprojecten van start gegaan: De smaak van morgen, Nutriënten waterproof en Topsoil+. Elk project pakt een knelpunt op om de teelten duurzamer te maken en voor te bereiden op de geschetste toekomst van de open teelten in 2030. De toekomstbeelden schetsen een toekomst van agrarische functies die in diverse ringen rondom stedelijke kernen zijn gegroepeerd: dichtbij de stad kleinschalige verweven belevingslandbouw tot verder weg van de stad grootschalige productielandbouw

In 2004, ICARDA began strategic visioning, driven by the global focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the realignment of the CGIAR System priorities by the Science Council. It involved, among other actions, a consolidation of the 19 research projects into six mega-projects for better integration of the Center’s multidisciplinary teams, and an increased use of new tools of science in addressing the problems of poverty and degradation of natural resources.

Released on March 30, 2005...
This bulletin examines the factors causing many villagers in Pa'an district to say that they now face a deepening food and money shortage crisis which is threatening their health and survival. Based on villagers' testimony, the main factors appear to be recurring forced labour for both SPDC and DKBA authorities, made worse in some areas by orders for farmers to double-crop on their land and the encroachment of new SPDC military bases on villages and farmland.

Agrarian reform, or AR, is the redistribution of public and private agricultural lands, regardless of produce and tenurial arrangement, to landless farmers and regular farm workers, to include support services and other arrangements alternative to distribution of land such as production/profi t sharing, labor organization, or distribution of shares of stock.

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) describes itself as “the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade fl ows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.”