The aim of this book is to improve the understanding of transition processes in European agriculture. It focuses on 'emerging transitions' - how new organizational forms and technologies change, and are changed by, mainstream actors and practices in the agricultural sector. This…
This book focuses on understanding farming transition pathways towards sustainability, using case studies from Europe. It assesses the utility of the multi-level perspective in transition theory for addressing contemporary issues and identifies future research needs, making it a…
"Tropical areas present ecological, cultural and political problems that demand analysis that is distinct from general ecological analysis. At a time when the sustainability of natural resource use in the tropics has become a big issue, this guide provides a scientific foundatio…
The chapters in this book are a small subset of chapters that could have been written. They were chosen to represent a broad range of approaches to agroecosystem analysis, focusing on the special problems of the tropics. To speak of blatant omissions first, there are no chapters…
"Tropical areas present ecological, cultural and political problems that demand analysis that is distinct from general ecological analysis. At a time when the sustainability of natural resource use in the tropics has become a big issue, this guide provides a scientific foundatio…
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage s…
The Role of legumes in the farming systems of the Mediterranean areas: proceedings of a Workshop on the Role of Legumes …
by International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, United Nations Development Programme, Osman, A. E., Ibrahim, M. H., Jones, M. A.
fromDevelopments in plant and soil sciences