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This collection considers the ways in which rootstock health can be optimised to improve agricultural production and fruit quality. Chapters consider recent... Læs mere
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This textbook aims to describe the role of minerals in plant life cycle; The book has focus on tropical agriculture and its specific demands, providing examples of major crops (such as sugarcane, soybeans, coffee etc), silviculture and pasture species.
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Addressing the problem of the high cost of agricultural development in tropical regions, this book summarizes the environmental concerns associated with... Læs mere
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This book assesses in a systems context the environmental, biological, and social constraints on Subsaharan African livestock... Læs mere
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This book describes the importance of forage legume genera—Centrosema, Desmodium, and Stylosanthes—for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics. It presents information on taxonomy, adaptation, distribution, productivity, and usefulness of these genera.
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The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
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In the tropics farmers have to work from a limited resource base which does not lend itself to highly productive crop and animal yields. The principles of farm... Læs mere
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This textbook addresses the main economic principles required by agricultural economists involved in rural development. The work draws on the characteristics of agricultural and food systems in less developed countries to highlight the importance of economic principles.
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The text provides a concise and accessible guide to all the major elements of tropical food science, including the nutritional value of tropical foodstuffs, its digestion, and the preparation and preservation of food.
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The money invested in canal irrigation has had disappointing results. This book aims to show that the policy and practice behind the vast sums spent during the 1980s especially were based on misleading research and misdiagnosis, analyzing possible improvements in performance.
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This book examines the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance.
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This textbook considers the methods used by governments to change the economic and social framework within which agricultural production takes place: by... Læs mere