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The Blackest Soil : Africa Can Feed the World: A Scientific Roadmap for Agricultural Preeminence for the 21st Century (Paperback)

Highlights from this report: There is a new narrative we call Africa Rising which is rapidly transforming the entire African continent unleashing a pathway toward sustainable development that will astound the world over the coming 45 years.It has... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Management of Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the Development of More Productive and Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Extended Versions of Pa

Table 1. Global allocation of arable land between different com- modities Globally cereal cropping dominates cultivated land Commodities Proportion of land area use (around 50% of total area Table 1). The remain- (%) ing arable land is used for... more

Agroforestry and Sustainable Agricultural Production (Hardcover)

This book focuses on the potential of agroforestry to maximize agriculture production while minimizing negative effects on the environment. It collects several studies on agroforestry systems from around the world including a variety of types of... more

Handbook of Agricultural Bionanobiotechnology: Handbook of Agricultural Biotechnology Volume 1: Nanopesticides (Hardcover)

Handbook of AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY The book provides detailed information on the application of nanopesticides for the management of numerous agricultural pests and pathogens as well as to foster an innovative pathway toward future sustainable... more

Pre-Owned Biorenewable Resources : Engineering New Products from Agriculture 9780813822631 Used

Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels chemicals and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering systems that convert agricultural crops and residues into... more

Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands (Hardcover)

There is an urgent need to increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in a sustainable and economically-viable manner. Transforming risk-averse smallholders into business-oriented producers that invest in producing surplus food for... more

Intercropping: A Sustainable Farming System (Paperback)

Intercropping is a ways to enhance diversity in an agricultural ecosystem. Intercropping as an example of sustainable agricultural systems following objectives such as: ecological balance more utilization of resources increasing the quantity and... more

Agroforestry: A Sustainable Land Use System (Hardcover)

Agroforestry is the growing of both trees and agricultural crops on the same piece of land. They are designed to provide tree and other crop products and at the same time protect conserve diversify and sustain vital economic environmental human and... more

Global Sustainable and Healthy Ecosystems Climate and Food Systems (Hardcover)

American agriculture is highly efficient: only two percent of the population is directly involved in agricultural production yet capable of outputting an abundance of high-quality and safe food at a low price to feed the rest of the United States... more

Biotic factor management for sustainable agricultural development (Paperback)

This book describes abiotic and biotic factor analysis by preparing database of various stress conditions of agricultural data and information about decision support system(DSS) for the farmers. This book also giving idea about the applications of... more

Earthscan Reader The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture (Paperback)

Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone s needs and despite great progress in increasing productivity over the past century hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of... more

Springer Environmental Management Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective (Hardcover)

This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment biological and agricultural production rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating... more

Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (Paperback)

Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized high-input export-driven agricultural production sector coupled with concentrated corporate processing and retailing are... more

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