This book analyzes the sustainability of community seed production under a rice-wheat farming system from microeconomic perspectives, considering how seed producers benefit from community seed production and how those benefits continue into the future.
This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting.
With a focus on environmentally friendly rice farming, this unique book integrates both ecosystem and human dimensions of ecological restoration to provide strategies to promote sustainable agriculture and rural development.
This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the "e;regional food industrial cluster"e; in Northeast Asia.
The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants.
Sustainability of rural communities is threatened by a plethora of factors including climate change and disasters which interact in an intricate manner in making rural people vulnerable and poor.
Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations comprises three major topics: 1) Discovery of the origin of rice agriculture and the Yangtze River civilization in southern China was mainly based on investigation of the Chengtoushan archaeological site, the earliest urban settlement in East Asia.
The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as "e;coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction"e; in 1998.
It is an honor and pleasure for me to write the foreword of this book comprising the of Forest Resources for proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the Improvement Recyclable Forest Products.
Tropical rain forests are increasingly expected to serve for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation amid global climate change and increasing human demands for land.
Leaf longevity is a fundamental process underlying patterns of variation in foliar phenology and determining the distinction between deciduous and evergreen plant species.
As the largest group of extant vertebrates, fish offer an almost limitless number of striking examples of evolutionary adaptation to environmental and biotic selection pressure.
Deforestation and forest degradation have continued over a long period of time, and the deterioration of forest environment management services is becoming one of the biggest concerns in the world.
This book is intended to be a record of the Biotechnology-Assisted Re/Afforestation Project in the Asia-Pacific Region (BIO-REFOR) since 1992, conducted in coop- eration with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (lUFRO).
This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems.
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview covering distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe, presenting a fresh perspective on different analytical approaches, theories, and frameworks.
This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa.
Im heißen Sommer 2018 lernen sich die Bildhauerin Bettina Thierig und die Bienenwissenschaftlerin Dorothea Brückner kennen – und entdeckten neben ihrer gemeinsamen Faszination für die Bienen wie die unterschiedlichen Blickwinkel auf die Tiere neue Perspektiven, neue Denkweisen hervorbrachten.
An exploration of the latest advances in the application of microbial nutraceuticals in healthcare, food production, and agriculture In Microbial Nutraceuticals: Products and Processes, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an up-to-date and authoritative discussion of the recent advances in the application of microbial nutraceuticals and their implementation in the health, food, and agriculture sectors.
Der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine hat ein Problem erneut ins Licht gerückt, das trotz zahlreicher Appelle entsprechender Organisationen viel zu wenig in der Öffentlichkeit steht: der Hunger in der Welt, der sich durch die deutlich reduzierte oder sogar ausbleibende Ausfuhr von Getreide und Düngemitteln aus den Kriegsregionen weiter verschärfen wird, obwohl der Export inzwischen wieder angelaufen ist.
Sehr häufig lesen wir darüber, wie die Landwirtschaft unter den Folgen des Klimawandels leidet und welche Anpassungen notwendig sind, um auch bei steigenden Temperaturen und veränderten Niederschlagsverhältnissen die Lebensmittelversorgung der Weltbevölkerung zu sichern.
Einen Permakulturgarten zu betreiben bedeutet, alle natürlichen Ressourcen zu nutzen, um die Entwicklung von unabhängigen und dauerhaften Ökosystemen zu fördern.
Es ist die Geschichte eines Mannes, der von einem kleinen, beschaulichen Ort am Neusiedlersee aus die österreichische und internationale Weinwelt auf den Kopf stellte.
In dieser Abrechnung der Aktivistin Vandana Shiva wird eindrucksvoll dargelegt, wie die Agrargroßindustrie mit Chemie und Gentechnik den Planeten plündert, die Lebenswelt zugrunde richtet und unsere Gesundheit untergräbt.
This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference for agricultural mobile robots, covering all aspects of the design process, from sensing and perceiving to planning and acting for practical farming applications.
