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Principles of Agronomy for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Principles of Agronomy for Sustainable Agriculture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

This textbook explains the various aspects of sustainable agricultures to undergraduate and graduate students. The book first quantifies the components of the crop energy balance, i.e. the partitioning of net radiation, and their effect on the thermal environment of the canopy. The soil water balance and the quantification of its main component (evapotranspiration) are studied to determine the availability of water to rain fed crops and to calculate crop water requirements. Then it sets the limitations of crop production in relation to crop phenology, radiation interception and resource availability (e.g. nutrients). With that in mind the different agricultural techniques (sowing, tillage, i...

Triticale Improvement and Production
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Triticale Improvement and Production

Triticale, the first successful human-made cereal grain, was produced in 1875 by crossing wheat with rye. This publication contains updated information on various aspects of triticale production, uses and marketing strategies worldwide; and it includes 13 country reports on the crop's production and research status.

Genotype X Environment Interactions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Genotype X Environment Interactions

The projected increase in world population levels and the subsequent rise in food demand represents a huge challenge for agricultural production systems worldwide. This publication examines the opportunities and challenges raised by the use of plant genetic resources and highlights the contribution that data from multi-environment yield trials can provide for the definition of adaptation strategies and yield stability targets in plant breeding programmes. It contains a case study about a durum wheat crop programme in Algeria, and also includes a CD-ROM with data from IRRISTAT, a programme developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Food for All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1063

Food for All

This book assesses the prospects for achieving the sustainable development goals, and the role of international organizations in achieving them, in light of recent economic, medical, and environmental developments.

The Globalization of Wheat
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Globalization of Wheat

In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, left a legacy that divides opinions even today. His high-yielding dwarf wheat varieties, known as miracle seeds, effectively doubled and tripled crop yields across the globe, from Kenya to India and Argentina to Mexico due to their wide adaptation. But these modern seeds also required expensive chemical fertilizers and irrigation, both of which were only available to wealthier f...

The Future is an Ancient Lake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Future is an Ancient Lake

This art book contains over 350 color photographs by Marzio Marzot, documenting information on traditional food production systems, scientific details and notes from a journey through one of the world' s outstanding region: the Lake Chad Basin in Africa. It provides an insight into the life and customs of the local farmers, fishermen and pastoralists who foster, maintain and utilize biodiversity in their traditional agricultural systems, thereby deploying the knowledge and techniques that they have accumulated over many centuries. FAO promotes the sharing of experiences and awareness related to the role of rural people in conserving and sustainably using agricultural biodiversity. Building on the local knowledge and social organization of farmers is indispensable. The images in this book are a tribute to the knowledge and work of farmers and their care for the land.

The British National Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1884

The British National Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Explore On-farm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Explore On-farm

Aims "at improving sustainable production of rainfed wheat-based farming systems through increasing understanding of the effects of localized environmental factors on crop and varietal performance."

FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-17
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc. pose a threat to food security to unprecedented levels. It has fallen upon the practitioners of agriculture and technologists of the world to innovate and become more productive to address the multi-pronged food security challenges. Agricultural innovation is key to managing food security concerns. The infusion of data science, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, satellites data, geospatial data, climatology, sensor technologies, and climate modeling with traditional agricultural practices such as soil engineering, fertilizers use, and agronomy are some of the best ways to achieve this. Data scie...