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Monitoring of spatiotemporal dynamics of Rabi rice fallows in South Asia using remote sensing. In: Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources, Mapping, Monitoring and Management, Geotechnologies and the Environment
Cereals and grain legumes are the most important part of human diet and
nutrition. The expansion of grain legumes with improved productivity to cater the
growing population’s nutritional security is of prime importance and ...
Adoption and impacts of improved varieties and seed demand analysis
There is very limited information about the national level adoption of improved wheat varieties in Morocco. With the exception of some estimates based on secondary data, the same is true for household, regional and national ...
Comentario del libro–Andenes y desarrollo sustentable.
Los andenes y terrazas constituyen un tipo de capital natural modificado que permite
prácticas agrícolas más productivas y menos riesgosas en las zonas de ladera de las
montañas andinas, gracias a la conversión de terrenos ...
Rainfed benchmark Site selection and characterization
From these workshops and an analysis of project documentation, we can conclude that possibilities for the improvement of water use do exist. These improvements depend not only on technical aspects, but also on organization ...
Lentils (Lens Culinaris L.): Linking whole foods for better human health
The failure to link current agricultural production with human nutritional needs has
led to the development of unhealthy food systems, which cause both malnutrition and
chronic diseases. Malnutrition is responsible for ...
Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops
Plant breeding aims to create new varieties that outperform the parents by combining valuable traits. The breeding cycle of selection–recombination–selection–testing requires resources, time, and experience to deliver ...
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.)
The claim of jatropha (Jatropha curcas) being a wonder plant is based on its perceived ability to grow successfully in semiarid
environmental conditions and on degraded soils. This chapter describes the (i) plant root ...
Yield Gap Analysis: Modelling of Achievable Yields at Farm Level
The world population is expected to reach about 8 billion by 2025 (United Nations, 2006), before it stabilizes at about 10-11 billion towards the end of the 21st century. Most of this increase in population is expected to ...
Multimarket analysis of agricultural policy in Iraq
Government intervention in Iraq agriculture takes the form of supporting output prices and subsidizing input prices for producers. At the same time, consumer prices are far below the domestic prices of producers and world ...
Luvisols
Chromic and Rhodic Livisols, otherwise knozn as the Red Medterranean Soils or the TErra Rossa, Show marked textiral differences and genetic peculiarities within their profil, Controvesial genetic characteristics observed ...