Author: Nteranya Sanginga
Publisher: CIAT
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9290592613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forward. A call for integrated soil fertility management in Africa. Introduction. ISFM and the African farmer. Part I. The principles of ISFM: ISFM as a strategic goal, Fertilizer management within ISFM, Agro-minerals in ISFM, Organic resource management, ISFM, soil biota and soil health. Part II. ISFM practices: ISFM products and fields practices, ISFM practice in drylands, ISFM practice in savannas and woodlands, ISFM practice in the humid forest zone, Conservation Agriculture. Part III. The process of implementing ISFM: soil fertility diagnosis, soil fertility management advice, Dissemination of ISFM technologies, Designing an ISFM adoption project, ISFM at farm and landscape scales. Part IV. The social dimensions of ISFM: The role of ISFM in gender empowerment, ISFM and household nutrition, Capacity building in ISFM, ISFM in the policy arena, Marketing support for ISFM, Advancing ISFM in Africa. Appendices: Mineral nutrient contents of some common organic resources.
Author: Amanda Carroll Waterhouse
Publisher:
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780979638947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marc Pansu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-04-18
Total Pages: 996
ISBN-13: 3540312110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook is a reference guide for selecting and carrying out numerous methods of soil analysis. It is written in accordance with analytical standards and quality control approaches. It covers a large body of technical information including protocols, tables, formulae, spectrum models, chromatograms and additional analytical diagrams. The approaches are diverse, from the simplest tests to the most sophisticated determination methods.
Author: J. Gautheyrou
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9789054107163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The objective of this book is to provide a better understanding of tools for soil analysis in order to use them more efficiently. It covers sampling problems as well as difficulties relating to actual analysis and quality control.
Author: Rodolfo Dirzo
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-09-26
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1610910214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered ecosystems in Latin America, knowledge about them remains limited because of the relative paucity of attention paid to them by scientists and researchers and a lack of published information on the subject. Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests seeks to address this shortcoming by bringing together a range of experts in diverse fields including biology, ecology, biogeography, and biogeochemistry, to review, synthesize, and explain the current state of our collective knowledge on the ecology and conservation of seasonally dry tropical forests. The book offers a synthetic and cross-disciplinary review of recent work with an expansive scope, including sections on distribution, diversity, ecosystem function, and human impacts. Throughout, contributors emphasize conservation issues, particularly emerging threats and promising solutions, with key chapters on climate change, fragmentation, restoration, ecosystem services, and sustainable use. Seasonally dry tropical forests are extremely rich in biodiversity, and are seriously threatened. They represent scientific terrain that is poorly explored, and there is an urgent need for increased understanding of the system's basic ecology. Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests represents an important step in bringing together the most current scientific information about this vital ecosystem and disseminating it to the scientific and conservation communities.
Author: Eric Tielkes
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Published: 2012-09-05
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 373694215X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard D. Bardgett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780198525028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Soil science has undergone a renaissance with increasing awareness of the importance of soil organisms and below-ground biotic interactions as drivers of community and ecosystem properties.
Author: Dianne E. Rocheleau
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agroforestry as a popular science: introduction to agroforestry, participatory planning - processand methods, evaluating the project. Agroforestry practices: agroforestry in cropland, agroforestry with structura conservation measures, agroforestry for in-between places, agroforestry in pastures and rangelands. Tools for agroforestry research and extension.