Agriculture and farming

In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development.

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been used as a biopesticide in agriculture, forestry and mosquito control because of its advantages of specific toxicity against target insects, lack of polluting residues and safety to non-target organisms.

The book gives a detailed description of the application of DSSAT in simulating crop and soil processes within various Agro-ecological zones in Africa.

Rice is the staple food for half of the world's population.

This book elucidates the importance of long-term experiments in revealing evidence of soil fertility decline in Africa.

The book details the innovative TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) approach to regional and national economic modeling, and explains the conversion from a comparative-static to a dynamic model.

This book continues as volume 4 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

In the recent years, the looming food scarcity problem has highlighted plant sciences as an emerging discipline committed to devise new strategies for enhanced crop productivity.

Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on changes in biological communities.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

Fungi are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground.

Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water.

Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests.

This book grasps the opportunity to show the strength of AGMEMOD in terms of baseline analysis at detailed regional and market levels, supported by an experienced team of country-based modellers.

The aim of this book is to provide an accessible overview for advanced students, resource professionals such as land managers, and policy makers to acquaint themselves with the established science, management practices and policies that facilitate sequestration and allow for the storage of carbon in forests.

Microbes and their biosynthetic capabilities have been invaluable in finding solutions for several intractable problems mankind has encountered in maintaining the quality of the environment.

Crops experience an assortment of environmental stresses which include abiotic viz.

Molecular farming in plants is a relatively young subject of sciences.

In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca.

Although the majority of the world's forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost.

This review of recent developments in our understanding of the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology covers a research area with enormous untapped potential.

This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996-2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results.

Tree based production systems abound especially in the tropics.

This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA.

Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types.

The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture.

Legumes play an important role in the cropping systems of sub Saharan Africa (SSA).

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

Managing biosecurity is everybody's business.

This international rigorously peer-reviewed volume critically synthesizes current knowledge in forest hydrology and biogeochemistry.

The work builds on the results of the COMPETE Bioenergy Competence Platform for Africa, which was supported by the European Commission and coordinated by WIP Renewable Energies, Germany.

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia.

Agricultural biotechnology takes many forms and applications, with the number and diversity of products ever increasing.

Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide.

Westcott's Plant Disease is a reference book on diseases which attack plants.

Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals.

Weed scientists are confident of increasing production through agricultural technology, including herbicides, but do not must ask if the moral obligation to feed people is sufficient justification for the benefits and harms achieved.

Salmonids have widespread economic and environmental importance.

Reef fish spawning aggregations, ranging from small groups to many tens of thousands of individuals, are spectacular but poorly known natural phenomena whereby fish assemble at specific times and locations to spawn.

This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin.

The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere.

This book provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at sites characterized by contaminated groundwater.

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology.

To meet the challenge of feeding ever increasing human population, efficient, economical and environment friendly disease control methods are required.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

This book has the purpose of providing the "e;state of the arts"e; concerning bio-economic modelling dealing with agricultural systems.

This book continues as volume 2 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.