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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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Behnassi, Mohamed (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Shahid, Shabbir A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mintz-Habib, Nazia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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.