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Ebook "Climate change and food security: Adapting agriculture to a warmer world" aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world.

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In the supply chain management system (SCM) in agribusiness, it is critical to ensure the economic sustainability of farms - suppliers of raw materials for processing. The purpose of the study was to develop methods and procedures for calculating the projected values of income per hectare from the crops cultivated, taking into account the conditions of crop production in the Northern Kazakhstan.

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This article focuses on researching the development of a monitoring and control system for various environmental parameters based on the Internet of Things (IoT) to assist farmers in increasing crop yield in tea nurseries in certain areas of Thai Nguyen province.

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Ebook "Nanotechnologies in food and agriculture" presents a comprehensive overview of new and emerging nanotechnologies. It includes aspects of nanoparticle monitoring, toxicity, and public perception, and covers applications that address both crop growing and treatment of agricultural wastewater. Topics include nanoagrochemicals (nanofertilizers, -pesticides, -herbicides), nanobiosensors, and nanotechnologies for food processing, packaging, and storage, crop improvement and plant disease control. The group of expert authors is led by an experienced team of editors.

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Ebook "Crop systems biology: Narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics" will be meant for those scientists and graduate students from fundamental plant biology and applied crop science who are interested in bridging the gap between these two fields. We have invited a group of scientists (who have very good track records in publishing excellent papers in this field or in a closely related area) to contribute chapters to this new book, and they have agreed to do so.​

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Ebook "Horticultural nematology" has been written mainly with the objective of providing its readers, comprehensive information on the advanced aspects related to phytonematodes associated with horticultural crops. It also provides basic information on plant parasitic nematodes since it is required for a better understanding of advanced topics. Several popular topics, information on which is already available in plenty, have been avoided.

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Ebook "Organic farming, prototype for sustainable agricultures" gathers 25 papers introduced in a first chapter. The first section investigates OF&F production processes and its capacity to benefit from the systems functioning to achieve higher self-sufficiency. The second one proposes an overview of organic performances providing commodities and public goods. The third one focuses on organics development pathways within agri-food systems and territories.

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Ebook "Sustainable agriculture reviews 14: Agroecology and global change" 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.

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Ebook "Tropical agroforestry" strives to provide up-to-date information on tropical agroforestry to serve as educational material in the tropical context. The authoritative textbook of Nair (1993) on agroforestry was published 18 years ago, and before the advent of tree domestication, an important agroforestry practice today. In addition, many other research activities, such as carbon sequestration and integrated pest management, have been included in the agroforestry agenda.

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Ebook "Plant biotechnology: Experience and future prospects" updates and introduces the scope and method of plant biotechnologies and molecular breeding within the context of environmental analysis and assessment, a diminishing supply of productive arable land, scarce water resources and climate change. New plant breeding techniques including CRISPR-cas system are now tools to meet these challenges both in developed countries and in developing countries.

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Ebook "Growing food: A guide to food production" is intended as a quick and easy reference guide for individuals and organisations that are involved with the production of food, from both agriculture and horticulture. It is designed to be used as a reference book that answers basic questions about how food is produced from plants, and aims to demystify the subject of growing food as far as possible.

342p tachieuhoa 28-01-2024 5 2   Download

Ebook "Organic crop production – Ambitions and limitations" has been written to provide scientifically based information on organic agriculture such as crop yields, food safety, nutrient use efficiency, leaching, long-term sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions and energy aspects. A number of scientists working with questions related to organic agriculture were invited to present the most recent research and to address critical issues.

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Ebook "Crop modeling and decision support" presents 36 papers selected from the International Symposium on Crop Modeling and Decision Support (ISCMDS-2008), held at Nanjing of China from 19th to 22nd in April, 2008. Many of these papers show the recent advances in modeling crop and soil processes, crop productivity, plant architecture and climate change; the rests describe the developments in model-based decision support systems (DSS), model applications, and integration of crop models with other information technologies.

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Ebook "Abiotic stress adaptation in plants: Physiological, molecular and genomic foundation" on abiotic stress attempts to search for possible answers to several basic questions related to plant responses towards abiotic stresses. Presented in this book is a holistic view of the general principles of stress perception, signal transduction and regulation of gene expression. Further, chapters analyze not only model systems but extrapolate interpretations obtained from models to crops.

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Ebook "Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems: Opportunities and challenges" focuses on the role of multispecies production systems involving tree and crop species as a means for carbon sequestration and thereby reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

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Ebook "Integrated greenhouse systems for mild climates: Climate conditions, design, construction, maintenance, climate control" provides technical instructions for practice (what to do and what not to do) and gives answers to the question: How to produce more clean crops and better quality with less water, less land and less pesticide. Suitable greenhouse constructions and their design, adapted to local climates in subtropical, tropical and arid regions and infrastructure conditions are presented.

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Ebook "Sustainable agriculture (Volume 2)" gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

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Ebook "Improving soil fertility recommendations in Africa using the decision support system for agrotechnology transfer (DSSAT)" presents examples on the application of DSSAT models and general crop modelling concepts, using African examples; presents and discusses minimum dataset requirement for appropriate modelling in DSSAT; highlights common challenges of crop growth modelling in the African situation.

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Ebook "Biology, physiology and molecular biology of weeds" provides comprehensive information on a wide range of topics from biology, physiology, genetics to the use of genomic tools in weed science. The book covers information at a more advanced level than the previously published books in weed science. It covers not only weed genetics and genomics research, but also weed management from an ecological perspective.

231p lamquandat 28-12-2023 7 2   Download

Ebook "Cultivating biodiversity to transform agriculture" shows a possible reconciliation between biodiversity/environment conservation and productive agriculture; this book approaches the issue of the transformation of agriculture from various angles; this book is intended for a scientific audience, researchers and academics in the fields of ecology, genetics, social sciences, plant protection, agronomy, environment and rural development.

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