Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas
Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book introduces state-of-the-art approaches, methods and research, focusing on smart management of rainwater. In addition, it provides an overview of projects from across the world, illustrating how rainwater-smart management has been implemented in drylands. Focusing on the scientific perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Focusing on organic farming, this book presents peer-reviewed contributions from leading international academics and researchers in the field of organic agriculture, plant ecosystems, sustainable horticulture and related areas of biodiversity science. It includes case studies and reviews on organic...
Functional Diversity of Mycorrhiza and Sustainable Agriculture
Management to Overcome Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Functional Diversity of Mycorrhiza and Sustainable Agriculture is the first book to present the core concepts of working with Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to improve agricultural crop productivity.
Highlighting the use of indigenous AM fungi for agriculture, the book includes details on how...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters...
Agriculture et gaz à effet de serre
Dix actions pour réduire les émissions
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
En France, l’agriculture représente environ 20 % du total des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Limiter les émissions en provenance de ce secteur devient impératif. Dans ce contexte, l’Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie, le ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Agroalimentaire...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies. The book focuses primarily on India, a fast developing economy, whose natural resource base comprising land and water supporting agricultural production is not only under enormous stress, but also...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by highly variable rainfall, frequent drought and low water productivity. There is an urgent need, heightened by climate change, for appropriate technologies to address this problem through managing and increasing the quantity of water on farmers’...
Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture
Upscaling in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: Upscaling in Developing Countries defines integrated climate smart agricultural technologies (ICSAT) as a suite of interconnected techniques and practices that enhance quantity and quality of agricultural products with minimum impact on the...
The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture
A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies describes and synthesizes existing methodologies for evaluating competitiveness in agriculture, introduces extensions and refinements, and provides a novel approach based on a combination of quantitative...
Management of Climate Induced Drought and Water Scarcity in Egypt
Unconventional Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
The book contains suggestion on suitable crop rotations for salt-affected soils to maximize the productivity of lands and water under current climate and under climate change in 2030. This book discusses droughts and water scarcity, which are important issues related to natural phenomena and affected...
World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030
An FAO Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry....
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture
World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...
The Mouse in Biomedical Research
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, the third volume in the four volume set, The Mouse in Biomedical Research, encompasses 23 chapters whose contents provide a broad overview on the laboratory mouse’s normative biology, husbandry, and its use as a model in biomedical research. This consists...
Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry
Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
This book collects wide-ranging contributions such as case studies, reviews, reports on technological developments, outputs of research/studies, and examples of successful projects, presenting current knowledge and raising awareness to help the agriculture and forestry sectors find solutions for mitigating...