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Product Description: Central Asia underwent an agricultural transformation in the 20th century that was neither efficient nor sustainable. There is a need for innovations that will remedy these deficits by reversing environmental degradation and ensuring poverty alleviation...read more
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9783847102977 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, January 28, 2015, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Central Asia underwent an agricultural transformation in the 20th century that was neither efficient nor sustainable.
Product Description: Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments...read more
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9789401084567 | Springer Verlag, February 12, 2012, cover price $309.00 | About this edition: Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa.
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9789024730858 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, July 1, 1985, cover price $359.00
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9789401087384 | Springer Verlag, January 10, 2012, cover price $359.00
Product Description: This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological resources, ecological sustainability, economic efficiency and the livelihoods of the local population...read more
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9789400719620 | Springer Verlag, September 17, 2011, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin.
Product Description: Production from tropical agricultural systems will need to increase to satisfy the rising food demand of an increasing population coupled with changes in consumption patterns. At the same time, the agricultural sector is a significant source of greenhouse gases (GHG) in many developing countries, which can be attributed mainly to land-use change and methane emissions from rice and livestock...read more
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9789048163410 | Springer Verlag, December 2, 2010, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: Production from tropical agricultural systems will need to increase to satisfy the rising food demand of an increasing population coupled with changes in consumption patterns.
Poor land management has degraded vast amounts of land, reduced our ability to produce enough food, and is a major threat to rural livelihoods in many developing countries. This book provides a thorough analysis of the multifaceted impacts of land use on soils. Abundantly illustrated with full-color images, it brings together renowned academics and policy experts to analyze the patterns, driving factors and proximate causes, and the socioeconomic impacts of soil degradation.
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9781402067778 | Springer Verlag, March 5, 2008, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: Poor land management has degraded vast amounts of land, reduced our ability to produce enough food, and is a major threat to rural livelihoods in many developing countries.
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9789048177233 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 19, 2010), cover price $199.00
Product Description: Production from tropical agricultural systems will need to increase to satisfy the rising food demand of an increasing population coupled with changes in consumption patterns. At the same time, the agricultural sector is a significant source of greenhouse gases (GHG) in many developing countries, which can be attributed mainly to land-use change and methane emissions from rice and livestock...read more
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9781402014222 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 2004, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: Production from tropical agricultural systems will need to increase to satisfy the rising food demand of an increasing population coupled with changes in consumption patterns.
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9781402004551 | Kluwer Academic Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $199.00
Product Description: Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments...read more
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9789024733125 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1986, cover price $439.00 | About this edition: Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa.
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