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Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics
Author: John Ragland
Publisher: Amer Society of Agronomy
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780891181187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agricultural sustainability in the tropics. Sustainable agriculture in developing countries: constraints, challenges, and choices. Sustainability and wealth. Alternatives to slash and burn agriculture. Sustainable land-use systems for sloping uplands in Southeast Asia. Alley farming as a potential agricultural production system for the humid and sub-humid tropics. Alley cropping on an acid soil in the upper Amazon: mulch, fertilizer, and hedgerow root pruning effects. Nutrient cycling by Acacia albida (syn. Faidherbia albida). Vetiver grass - a hedge against erosion. Decision support systems for sustainable agriculture. Macroscale economic and policy influences on the sustainability of tropical agriculture. Farmer participation for more effective research in sustainable agriculture. Designing future tropical agricultural systems: challenges for research and extension. Strategies for developing a viable and sustainable agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa: some issues and options. Sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: perception, scope, complexity, and challenges. Technological base for agricultural sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa. Strategies for sustaining agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: the fertilizer technology issue. Short season fallow management for sustainable production in Africa. Technological options towards sustainable agriculture for different ecological regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Towards sustaining agricultural production in the tropics: research and development priorities.
Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1993-02-01
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 0309047498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth. Without proper management, these forests and other natural resources will be seriously depleted within the next 50 years. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics provides critically needed direction for developing strategies that both mitigate land degradation, deforestation, and biological resource losses and help the economic status of tropical countries through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base. Recommendations for developing technologies needed for sustainable agriculture. A strategy for changing policies that discourage conserving and managing natural resources and biodiversity. Detailed reports on agriculture and deforestation in seven tropical countries.
Strategies and Tactics of Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics
Author: M. Adetola Badejo
Publisher: College Press Publ. (Nigeria)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws attention to the hydra-headed problem of attaining sustainability in agro-ecosystems of the tropical regions and attempts to shape future agricultural research in these regions, where, the author argues, there is an over-reliance on solutions practised in more temperate climes. Topics include: the potentials of leguminous crop cover systems for sustainable agricultural production, managing carbon and nitrogen in tropical organic farming, the management of the genetic diversity of maize, and the management of fire in agro-ecosystems in forest and savannah ecotypes in Nigeria.
Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Tropical Agriculture
Author: Alim Isnansetyo
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 3319603639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The proceeding of tropical agriculture is a proceeding of papers presented at the International Conference on Tropical Agriculture. Sustainability of agriculture production system is an important issue in the world, which includes all aspects of sustainable criteria, such as technical, socio-economic, and ecological aspects. This book covers sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical fisheries, sustainable tropical animal production, sustainable tropical forestry, tropical animal health, and Innovative and Emerging Food Technology and Management. The most common, challenging issues in plant, animal and fisheries production in the tropics are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases. These issues are closely linked to the socio-economic condition of farmers as small-scale farms are dominant in this area. In addition, post-harvest technology is crucial to maintaining the high quality of products after on farm production. This volume provides the recent research and development on tropical agriculture production systems for plant, terrestrial animal and aquatic animal to establish sustainable agriculture production in the tropics.
Tropical Soils
Author: Anthony S. R. Juo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-09-18
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0195353870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution. In this text/reference, the authors describe in terms of agroecology the tropical environments of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin and Central America, focusing on production and management systems unique to each region.
Agroecology, Ecosystems and Sustainability in the Tropics
Author: G. Poyyamoli
Publisher: Studera Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9385883186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tropical ecosystems are some of the most biologically and ecologically diverse in the world. Traditional, local agroecosystems in the tropics reflect this diversity, and provide excellent examples of how nature can be used as the model for designing and managing sustainable agroecosystems. This book brings together such examples. Using an agroecological approach, the collection of chapters demonstrates how agroecology must simultaneously be a science, a practice, and a movement for social change towards a paradigm of sustainability that engages all parts of the food system, from the field to the table. Chapter contributors were selected from multiple countries and backgrounds, providing a valuable diversity of approaches and knowledge systems, and the interaction of these systems gives this book the important transdisciplinarity that has become a key component of agroecology. Working across disciplines and knowledge systems is necessary in order to link the multiple components of food systems that promote effective change. As food systems return to the diversity, complexity, and resilience they once had, it is collections of experiences as presented in this book that provide examples of the path we must be on. Steve Gliessman, Professor Emeritus of Agroecology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Agriculture
Author: Anggoro Cahyo Sukartiko
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 3319975536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers the sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical animal production and health, sustainable tropical forestry, socio-economic dimension in tropical agriculture and innovative and emerging food technology and management as chapters in this book. The common challenging problems in plant, animal, and fisheries production in the tropic are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases.
Bioresources Technology in Sustainable Agriculture
Author: Mohamad Faiz Foong Abdullah
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2018-01-31
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1315341743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on cutting-edge advances and applications in tropical agriculture and bioresources. It outlines some of the newest advances, basic tools, and the applications of novel approaches to improve agricultural practices and utilization of bioresources for the enhancement of human life. Highlights include a thorough discussion on various aspects of agricultural modernization through technological advances in information technology, efficient utilization of under-exploited natural bioresources, new chemical approaches for the generation of novel biochemicals, and the applications of forensic and genetics approaches for bioresource conservation.
Towards a Second Green Revolution
Author: G.B. Marini-Bettòlo
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0444599630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Genetic research in some fundamental crops, together with the use of chemicals as pesticides and fertilizers, opened the way in the 1950s and 1960s to great changes in methodology in agriculture - with astonishing results in the tropics. This change became known as the Green Revolution - a truly great revolution in methods and materials which, when applied with intelligence, made possible in a few years the achievement of complete sufficiency in cereals production in South and South East Asia, Mexico and South America. After 20 years of continuous success, aspects of the Green Revolution need to be rediscussed in the light of new findings and possibilities offered by scientific and technological progress - and negative side effects on environment and health. These papers examine the present state of agriculture, and indicate the way forward for its development, especially in the tropics and, in particular, Africa and South America. The need for more research is stressed; priorities in the application of this research are discussed, such as the economic aspects of any new system to be adopted, and the need to respect the ecological equilibria of different environments and the balance of energy input/output in a given agrosystem.
