Everywhere in the world, food and agricultural policy is under scrutiny.
Questions are being asked about both past and present public policy and
strategy. The motives for reassessment are various, including trade wars, health
impact, ecological concerns, population, citizens rights. After decades in which
policy was centrally concerned with raising productivity and production, using a
fairly simpl... hiện toàn bộ
To prevent harm to human health from degrading ecosystems, epidemiologists need
useful indicators that are sensitive to those shifts in health status that might
parallel these declines. Traditional measures of health (e.g., life expectancy,
infant mortality) are intuitively linkable to effects from environmental
degradation but, in fact, they do not appear to provide early warning
indications of n... hiện toàn bộ
Nathan D. Wolfe, Mpoudi Ngole Eitel, Jim Gockowski, Pia K. Muchaal, Christian Nolte, A. Tassy Prosser, Judith Ndongo Torimiro, Stephan F. Weise, Donald S. Burke
Through time people have been mobile, for a variety of complex reasons at a
range of scales from local through regional and continental to intercontinental.
Some are voluntary, others are made under pressure and the force of various
circumstances, with environmental, socio-economic and political factors often
interrelating to cause movements. We are now more mobile than at any time in the
past, th... hiện toàn bộ