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Perspectives for Agronomy

Author : M.K. van Ittersum
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080538665
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives for Agronomy written by M.K. van Ittersum and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue conciliating environmental, agricultural, and economic and social objectives. Placing agriculture in such a broadened perspective requires a different agronomy, with new tools and approaches at a range of aggregration levels. It calls for detailed knowledge concerning the functioning, productivity and ecological relationships of agricultural plants and crops. In addition, it calls for a constant update and synthesis of existing and newly generated knowledge, the design of new ideotypes and genotypes, new production technologies, cropping systems, farming systems and agro-ecological land use systems. This proceedings book presents a set of case studies illustrating the various agronomic tools that can be used for specific agronomic questions. The case studies are grouped in sections illustrating relevant subquestions in developing an agriculture with broadened objectives. The book starts with an introductory paper on the role of agronomy in research and education in Europe. The second section deals with agricultural land use, food security and environment. This is followed by a set of papers describing experimental research and modeling approaches used to design new ideotypes of crops, including physiological properties in relation to growth factors such as radiation, CO2, temperature and water. Sustained soil fertility directly links to nutrient cycling and soil organic matter. A selected set of papers addresses the improvements in resource use efficiency and as such their contribution towards economic, environmental and agricultural objectives. The final section addresses the design of integrated and ecological arable farming systems. It highlights the role of prototyping interaction with leading-edge farmers, as promising tools to design, implement and test new farming systems. It is hoped that the activities of the European Society for Agronomy and the Proceedings of its 4th Congress will stimulate to serve the new perspectives of agronomy, i.e. to adopt ecological principles, to optimally manage the use of resources and to meet social and economic objectives.

Climate Resilient Agriculture

Author : Arun Shanker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535138952
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Climate Resilient Agriculture written by Arun Shanker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing climatic scenario has affected crop production in the adverse ways, and the impact of it on agriculture is now emerging as a major priority among crop science researchers. Agriculture in this changing climatic scenario faces multiple diverse challenges due to a wide array of demands. Climate-resilient agriculture is the need of the hour in many parts of the world. Understanding the adverse effects of climatic change on crop growth and development and developing strategies to counter these effects are of paramount importance for a sustainable climate-resilient agriculture. This multiauthored edited book brings out sound climate-resilient agriculture strategies that have a strong basic research foundation. We have attempted to bridge information from various diverse agricultural disciplines, such as soil science, agronomy, plant breeding, and plant protection, which can be used to evolve a need-based technology to combat the climatic change in agriculture.

Perspectives in World Agriculture

Author : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
Publisher : C.A.B. International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in World Agriculture written by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux and published by C.A.B. International. This book was released on 1980 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Combating Climate Change

Author : Manjit S. Kang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466566701
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Combating Climate Change written by Manjit S. Kang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of climate change can already be felt around the world, and they will likely impact all facets of human civilization—from health, livelihood security, agricultural production, and shelter to international trade. Since anthropogenic factors are mainly to blame for the current trends in global warming, human intervention will be necessary to mitigate it. With 17 authoritative chapters, Combating Climate Change: An Agricultural Perspective outlines a framework for preparing agriculture for climate change, presenting the causes and consequences of climate change and possible remediation measures. With contributions from internationally recognized scientists, the chapters cover global food security, adaptation of agriculture to fulfill its greenhouse gas emissions mitigation potential, economic aspects of climate change, the soil organic carbon pool, the need for agroecological intelligence, and the development of nutrient-use-efficient crops. The text also addresses genetic mitigation of climate change effects through the development of climate-resilient crops and the use of genetic and genomic resources to develop highly productive crop cultivars, as well as the conservation of native agroecosystems. Expert contributors discuss the impacts of climate change on plant pathogens and plant disease as well as on insects and crop losses. They address abiotic stress resistance, conservation tillage as a mitigation strategy, and more. The final chapter demonstrates the practical use of the WorldClim and DIVA software for modeling current and future climates, using Timor Leste and India as examples. Covering a broad range of issues related to climate change and agriculture, this book brings together ideas for environmentally friendly technologies and opportunities to further increase and stabilize global agricultural productivity and ensure food security in face of mounting climate challenge.

Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world

Author : Otsuka, Keijiro, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896293831
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world written by Otsuka, Keijiro, ed. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change. In this four-part volume, top experts offer the latest research in the field of agricultural development. Using new lenses to examine today’s biggest challenges, contributors address topics such as nutrition and health, gender and household decision-making, agrifood value chains, natural resource management, and political economy. The book also covers most developing regions, providing a critical global perspective at a time when many pressing challenges extend beyond national borders. Tying all this together, Agricultural Development explores policy options and strategies for developing sustainable agriculture and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. The changing global landscape combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food value chains, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting gender equity and equality. Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World, with its unprecedented breadth and scope, will be an indispensable resource for the next generation of policymakers, researchers, and students dedicated to improving agriculture for global wellbeing.

Advances in Agronomy

Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080888631
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Agronomy written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field

Agroecological Perspectives in Agronomy, Forestry, and Agroforestry

Author : Paul Anthony Wojtkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Agroecological Perspectives in Agronomy, Forestry, and Agroforestry written by Paul Anthony Wojtkowski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recent Attainments and Perspectives in Agronomy ...

Author : Russia. Gosudarstvennyĭ institut opytnoĭ agronomii
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Recent Attainments and Perspectives in Agronomy ... by : Russia. Gosudarstvennyĭ institut opytnoĭ agronomii

Download or read book Recent Attainments and Perspectives in Agronomy ... written by Russia. Gosudarstvennyĭ institut opytnoĭ agronomii and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agronomy for Development

Author : James Sumberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315284049
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Agronomy for Development written by James Sumberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Knowledge politics in development-oriented agronomy -- 2 On the movement of agricultural technologies: packaging, unpacking and situated reconfiguration -- 3 South-South cooperation and agribusiness contestations in irrigated rice: China and Brazil in Ghana -- 4 GM crops 'for Africa': contestation and knowledge politics in the Kenyan biosafety debate -- 5 Systems research in the CGIAR as an arena of struggle: competing discourses on the embedding of research in development -- 6 One step forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: 'scaling up' as Fordist replication in drag -- 7 When the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of agricultural extension in Uganda -- 8 Sweet 'success': contesting biofortification strategies to address malnutrition in Tanzania -- 9 Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal seed institutions -- 10 Laws of the field: rights and justice in development-oriented agronomy -- 11 A golden age for agronomy? -- References -- Index

Agroecological Perspectives in Agronomy, Forestry, and Agroforestry

Author : Paul A Wojtkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120415416
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Agroecological Perspectives in Agronomy, Forestry, and Agroforestry written by Paul A Wojtkowski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives

Author : Søren Marcus Pedersen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319687158
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives by : Søren Marcus Pedersen

Download or read book Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives written by Søren Marcus Pedersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe. Divided into 12 chapters it addresses some of the most recent developments and aspects of precision farming. The intention of this book is to provide an overview of some of the most promising technologies with precision agriculture from an economic point of view. Each chapter has been put together so that it can be read individually should the reader wish to focus on one particular topic. Precision Farming as a farm technology benefits from large-scale advantages due to relatively high investment costs and is primarily adopted on farms with medium to large field areas.

Women in Agriculture

Author : Ranajit Kumar Samanta
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788185880860
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Women in Agriculture written by Ranajit Kumar Samanta and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume consists of nine chapters covering relevant issues on women in farming and its allied disciplines projecting multifaceted experiences, authored by several experts, academics and practitioners on the field from the countries like, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands and India.

Agricultural Research in the Northeastern United States

Author : American Society of Agronomy. Northeastern Branch. Symposium
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Research in the Northeastern United States written by American Society of Agronomy. Northeastern Branch. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origins of Agriculture

Author : David Rindos
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 148326954X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Agriculture written by David Rindos and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective presents an alternative approach to understanding cultural variation and change. It aims to demonstrate that domestication and the origin of agricultural systems are best understood by attempting to explicate the evolutionary forces that affected that development of domesticates and agricultural systems. The book begins by discussing cultural change, the domestication of plants, and the origin of agricultural systems in the most general of terms. It considers Darwinism in some depth, concentrating on the relationship between natural selection and cultural change. Subsequent chapters examine the world of domestication and agriculture and present a series of concepts that may permit a more natural explanation for these processes. These include concepts such as incidental domestication, specialized domestication, and agricultural domestication. The final two chapters present models for the origin and spread of agricultural systems based upon Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation

Author : Thomas S. Jayne
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590333440
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation written by Thomas S. Jayne and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation - A View From Africa

Perspectives in Agricultural Geography: Framework of agriculture

Author : Noor Mohammad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Agricultural Geography: Framework of agriculture written by Noor Mohammad and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture

Author : Denise Phillips
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319121855
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture written by Denise Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestock. The life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with US, European, Russian, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese contexts. The book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science develops. In particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving – perhaps even recreating – the living world to serve human ends. Without close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as Humboldt and Mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nations.