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The edited volume focuses on modern agro-technologies for achieving climate smart agriculture in China and meeting the UN sustainable development goals (especially SDGs 2, 13, and 15). It describes the technologies being adopted in China for meeting food security challenges, with the main focus being on soils. China is a large and diverse country, and what happens there has a global impact. In the past decades, China has achieved remarkable increases in food production, feeding nearly 20% of the world population with less than 10% of the arable land. This great achievement was mainly based on the intensive use of chemical inputs like fertilizers and pesticides, which in turn caused environme...
As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Dr...
Rigogliose o rinsecchite, isolate in un angolo poco illuminato di un grigio ufficio o protagoniste assolute e sfrontate dell'ingresso di casa nostra, le piante da interno oggi sono ovunque: negli appartamenti, nei negozi, nelle palestre, negli ospedali, nelle aziende. Da quando gli esseri umani hanno iniziato a trascorrere la maggior parte delle loro giornate in luoghi chiusi e urbanizzati esse rappresentano l'ambiente botanico con cui abbiamo il contatto maggiore, quello che più influenza direttamente o indirettamente la nostra idea di natura. Consapevole che nella loro storia ci sia un frammento importante della nostra identità individuale e collettiva, in Piante domestiche Mike Maunder ...
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This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt.