This book provides an up-to-date information on Vertisols research, and guides readers to important reference material. Four keynote papers and eight country papers and national perspectives on the management of Vertisols in Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabw…
"Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals - especially trace elements - to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids - mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated from oce…
Certification of coffee producers is frequently suggested as a promising strategy for improving the position of smallholder farmers in the market. After the launch of the first Fairtrade label in 1988, several other standards have been promoted either by voluntary agencies (Utz…
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…
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., Jones, M. A., Ibrahim, M. M.
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Ecologists, agronomists, and others who may question the validity of current models for determining sustainable growth of agroecosystems, need a new set of analytical tools that more effectively address the complex nature of related processes. Those who challenge traditional ass…
The Mediterranean area shows a great diversity of livestock systems, depending on local resources and traditions, but also on the networking space where informational resources are available for producers. During the last decades, a lot of innovations have been conceived or int…
Livestock production systems are the result of an interaction between domestic animals and the environment, modulated by man, that dates back to Neolithic times. As a consequence of this interaction among the wide diversity of animal resources, natural habitats and population n…
Sub Saharan Africa; Middle east and North Africa; Eastern Europe and Central Asia; South Asia; East Asia and pacific; Latin America and Caribbean; Global challenges, potentials and priorities.