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Sowing Seeds in the City

Ecosystem and Municipal Services

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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016

Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services. The potential impacts of urban agriculture on a range of ecosystem services including soil and water conservation,...
Cover of Agricultural Policies in Costa Rica
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Costa Rica’s strong agricultural sector is underpinned by the country’s political stability, robust economic growth and high levels of human development. The sector has achieved significant export success, yet raising productivity and staying competitive in world markets will require efforts to...
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Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture

Prospects for the 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011

As the oldest and largest human intervention in nature, the science of agriculture is one of the most intensely studied practices. From manipulation of plant gene structure to the use of plants for bioenergy, biotechnology interventions in plant and agricultural science have been rapidly developing...
Cover of Agriculture Growth in India
by Ravinder Choudhary
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011

The agriculture sector has been successful in keeping pace with rising demand for food. The contribution of increased land area under agricultural production has declined over time and increases in production in the past two decades have been almost entirely due to increased productivity.
Cover of Integrating Biofuel and Rural Renewable Energy Production in Agriculture for Poverty Reduction in the Greater Mekong Subregion
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011

This report contains the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. It also presents the executive summaries of this report, the individual biofuel study reports for the six member countries, and the biofuel modeling study. The findings were endorsed at the Fifth...
Cover of Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe.  Divided into 12 chapters it addresses some of the most recent developments and aspects of precision farming. The intention of this book is to provide an overview of some...
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The Biodynamic Farm

Agriculture in Service of the Earth and Humanity

by Herbert Keopf
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006

Bankrupt farmers, erosion of topsoil, and poor food quality owing to pesticides, hormones, and other additivesthese are the well-known realities of the modern crisis in farming. This problem is the outcome of the limited vision of conventional methods and a system that focuses exclusively on quick results...
Cover of Assessment of Pesticide Use Reduction Strategies for Thai Highland Agriculture
by Christian Grovermann
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015

This study combines econometrics and agent-based modelling to evaluate the impacts of a range of pesticide use reduction strategies in the context of Thai highland agriculture. Pesticide productivity and pesticide overuse are quantified, while determinants of the adoption of innovations in pesticide...
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Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture

Climate Change and Sustainability in Agriculture

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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

This 35-chapter book is based on several oral and poster presentations including both invited and contributory chapters. The book is thematically based on four pillars of sustainability, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Environment, Economic, Social and Institutional. The environmental sustainability,...
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Vision Infinity for Food Security

Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows!

by Shashi B. Sharma, John A. Wightman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015

A new perspective on the global food security situation and highlights the need for seeking a common vision and implementing global planning to define the manner in which the human species will manage its food security. The basic question of ‘is there enough food’ is examined in general and then...
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European Agricultural Research in the 21st Century

Which Innovations Will Contribute Most to the Quality of Life, Food and Agriculture?

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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

Jointly published with INRA, Paris. What will people eat in the future and how can the food requirements in terms of quantity and quality be met? This EU-based study elucidates the need for a productivity level that will make agriculture competitive on the market and yet is reconciled with...
Cover of Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with...
Cover of Microbial Diversity and Biotechnology in Food Security
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

The roles of microbes in agriculture, industry and environment have been the point of interest since long time for their potential exploitation. Although only a fraction of microbial diversity was accessed by microbiologists earlier for harnessing them owing to limited techniques available. The molecular...
Cover of Applied Statistics for Agriculture, Veterinary, Fishery, Dairy and Allied Fields
by Pradip Kumar Sahu
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017

This book is aimed at a wide range of readers who lack confidence in the mathematical and statistical sciences, particularly in the fields of Agriculture, Veterinary, Fishery, Dairy and other related areas. Its goal is to present the subject of statistics and its useful tools in various disciplines in...
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