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The EDGARv4.tox1 is part of the Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which provides time-series of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived atmospheric pollutants. The EDGARv4.tox1 contains...

At the recent event ‘Scientific support to Internal Market’ organized by JRC in Brussels on 21 February 2013 and attended inter alia by Commissioner Michel Barnier, the Deputy Secretary-General...

This review highlights developments in mycotoxin analysis and sampling over a period between mid-2012 and mid-2013. It covers the major mycotoxins: aflatoxins, Alternaria toxins, ergot alkaloids...

Agricultural monitoring is a major concern to economies largely based on agriculture like Uruguay. In order to improve crop yield forecasts, identification of crop types must be performed...

Monitoring the impact of drought on vegetation conditions is a critical activity for assessing food security in semi-arid and arid countries in Africa. Remote sensing from space offers a unique opportunity...

Despite the many challenges inherent in this exercise, from defining the concept itself to rendering it analytically tractable, the Environment and Gender Index (EGI) seems to be a tool in the right...

The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) attempts to summarise complex and versatile concepts related to human capital and talent competitiveness at the national scale worldwide. The JRC analysis...

Following more than 20 years of civil unrest, environmental information for Southern Somalia is scarce while there is clear evidence that the war economy fuelled by the conflict is rapidly...

Early warning monitoring systems in food-insecure countries aim to detect unfavourable crop and pasture conditions as early as possible during the growing season. This manuscript describes a procedure...

Given specific CO2 emission scenarios, predictions of future ocean carbonate chemistry are relatively certain at the global scale. However future regional ocean acidification...