The Solar Corridor Crop System

• Author : C. LeRoy Deichman,Robert J. Kremer
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2019-06-12
• ISBN : 9780128147931

The Solar Corridor Crop System: Implementation and Impacts presents a case-study format on the planning and implementation of alternative cropping systems designed to maximize incident sunlight and bio-support of all crops in a rotation system. The book describes the basic component of the system, an increased access point of incident sunlight between each row or pairs of rows that enables a more uniform vertical distribution of incident sunlight to chloroplasts within the entire corn leaf canopy. While the production environment

• Author : Shiva Gorjian,Pietro Elia Campana
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2022-06-17
• ISBN : 9780323886253

Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems aims to assist society and agricultural communities in different regions and scales to improve their productivity and sustainability. Solar energy, with its rapidly growing technologies and nascent market, has shown promise for integration into a variety of agricultural activities, providing an alternative, sustainable solution to current practices. To meet the future demands of modern sustainable agriculture, this book addresses the major existing problems by providing innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions using

• Author : Charles L. Wilson,Don M. Huber
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2021-07-07
• ISBN : 9781000388039

A UN report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in 2017 recognized that, “although pesticide use has been correlated with a rise in food production, it has had catastrophic impacts" on human health and the environment. The report acknowledged that “increased food production has not succeeded in eliminating hunger worldwide because of the many interacting factors involved. Reliance on hazardous pesticides is a short-term solution that undermines the rights to adequate food and health for present and future generations." It

• Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
• Release Date : 1994
• ISBN : 9251032173

About neglected crops of the American continent. Published in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of Cord�ba (Spain) as part of the Etnobot�nica92 Programme (Andalusia, 1992)

• Author : Hans Ruthenberg
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1976
• ISBN : CORNELL:31924001258957

Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.

• Author : Jean-Philippe Deguine,Caroline Gloanec,Philippe Laurent,Alain Ratnadass,Jean-Noël Aubertot
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2017-12-22
• ISBN : 9789402411850

This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection. It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies and lessons and generic keys for agroecological transition. The book is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, experimenters, teachers, farmers, students. It represents a new tool, proposing concrete keys of action on the basis of feedbacks validated scientifically. Beyond the examples presented, it is therefore of general scope and

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2013-03-15
• ISBN : 9780123847041

Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. It’s a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. The vast majority of research, studies, projections and recommendations tend to focus on the human influence on climate change and global warming as the result of CO2 emissions, often to the exclusion of other threats that include population growth and the stress placed

• Author : I. Gomez,L. Thivant
• Publisher : Scientific Publishers - UBP
• Release Date : 2017-09-01
• ISBN : 9789388148931

The production of this manual is a joint activity between the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) and the Technologies and practices for smallholder farmers (TECA) Team from the Research and Extension Division (DDNR) of FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The realization of this manual has been possible thanks to the hard review, compilation and edition work of Nadia Scialabba, Natural Resources officer (NRC) and Ilka Gomez and Lisa Thivant, members of the TECA Team. Special thanks are due to

• Author : Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release Date : 2016-11-09
• ISBN : 9789535127369

Cotton is the most important natural fiber crop of our planet, which provides humanity with cloth and vegetable oil, medicinal compounds, meal and hull for livestock feed, energy sources, organic matter to enrich soil, and industrial lubricants. Therefore, cotton research to improve sustainable cotton production worldwide is the vital task of scientific community to address the increasing demands and needs for cotton products. This Cotton Research book presents readers updated information and advances in current cotton science investigations. Chapters of

• Author : Ottmar Edenhofer,Ramón Pichs Madruga
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2012
• ISBN : 1139248707

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources - bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy - as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It considers the environmental and social consequences associated with the deployment of these technologies and presents strategies to overcome technical as well as non-technical obstacles to their application

• Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-06-17
• ISBN : 9781136498879

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels and FAO's viewpoint on appropriate recommendations

• Author : Athanasios Koukounaras
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2021-03-19
• ISBN : 9783036503509

Greenhouse horticulture is one of the most intensive agricultural systems, focusing on the production of high-value products. This book presents current research findings that cover a wide range of new technologies and novel agricultural practices, which are preconditions for successful production in a very competitive global environment.

• Author : Jonathan Gressel
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2020-03-03
• ISBN : 9781421429137

A compelling synthesis of ideas from agronomy, medicine, breeding, physiology, population genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology, Genetic Glass Ceilings presents transgenics as an inevitable and desperately necessary approach to securing and diversifying the world's food supply.

• Author : Eric Lichtfouse
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2009-09-23
• ISBN : 9048127165

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social

• Author : Liz Deakin,Mrigesh Kshatriya,Terry Sunderland
• Publisher : CIFOR
• Release Date : 2016-01-25
• ISBN : 9786023870226

Agricultural expansion has transformed and fragmented forest habitats at alarming rates across the globe, but particularly so in tropical landscapes. The resulting land-use configurations encompass varying mosaics of tree cover, human settlements and agricultural land units. Meanwhile, global demand for agricultural commodities is at unprecedented levels. The need to feed nine billion people by 2050 in a world of changing food demands is causing increasing agricultural intensification. As such, market-orientated production systems are now increasingly replacing traditional farming practices, but at