Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System Global Context to Local Dynamics of Sustainable Agriculture /
This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) i...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Part I Sustainable Agricultural Development Face to Environmental, Economic and Social Dynamics
- 1 Agricultural and food System - Global Change Nexus: Dynamics and Policy Implications
- 2 Challenges facing the macroeconomic policy for sustainable development in agriculture (based on the model of organic agriculture in Bulgaria)
- 3 Environmentally sound and commercially sustainable agricultural development in Nigeria
- 4 Some socio-economic factors affecting farmers’ participation of agricultural extension education efforts: A case study in Northeastern Thailand
- 5 Factors influencing the choice of inorganic contrasting to organic practices in Irish potato production and viable actions to reverse the trend: A case study of Kisoro District, South-western Uganda
- 6 Moroccan agriculture facing climate change: Adaptation and local distribution of the value added
- 7 Economic impact of climate change on wheat productivity in Bangladesh: A Ricardian approach
- 8 Farmers’ attitude towards the traditional and modern irrigation methods in Tabuk Region - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Part II Impacts of Soil Degradation in Terms of Agricultural Productivity
- 9 Using expert system for sustainable agriculture and capacity building in degraded soils
- 10 Managing degraded lands for realizing sustainable agriculture through environmental friendly technologies
- 11 Land suitability evaluation for jatropha (jatropha curcas l.) plantation in Indonesia
- 12 Physiological adaptation of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) genotypes to salt stress: One of deleterious impacts of climate change
- Part III Livestock Production Enhancement: Recommended Techniques
- 13 Use of Prosopis juliflora seedpod as livestock feed in the arid and semi arid Rangelands of Kenya
- 14 Plankton and common reed – a potential resource for domestic animals and fish in North Delta lakes of Egypt
- 15 Is the “Livestock Revolution” achievable in water deprived areas? A reflection from experiments with irrigated smallholder farms in Morocco
- 16 Colostral IgG as affected by nutritional status for border leicester merino ewes deliver in Kuwait
- Part IV Agro-Biodiversity, Climate Change and Livelihoods:
- Managing Interdependence
- 17 Simulation of carbon consumption by biological models
- 18 Biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in cocoa agroforest in Southern Cameroon
- 19 Agroforestry systems in Morocco: The case of olive tree and annual crops association
- 20 Sacred mangrove forests: Who bears the pride?
- 21 Adoption and utilisation of ethno-postharvest technologies by smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe: Case of Buhera District
- 22 The importance of non wood forest products for rural livelihoods: The case of South Kordofan State, Sudan
- 23 Co-management of forests and forest land under decentralization process in Central Vietnam
- Biographies of Contributors
- Authors Index
- Subject Index.
