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Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9789067182256 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians of Southeast Asia have traditionally preferred to write about politics and culture rather than economics and ecology, and where they have looked at the history of agriculture they have most often concentrated on cash crops like sugar, coffee and rubber which figure prominently in colonial records. Smallholders and stockbreeders, by contrast, provides a rare survey of the history of foodcrop farming, and a unique look at the history of animal husbandry, in the Southeast Asian region. Thirteen contributions by an international selection of expert authors cover topics ranging...
Historians of Southeast Asia have traditionally preferred to write about politics and culture rather than economics and ecology, and where they have l...
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132,04 zł |
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The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
ISBN: 9780803232853 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation of this highly perishable good to distant markets. Since its inception the banana industry has been fraught with controversy, exhibiting many of the issues underlying the basic global economic relations that first emerged in the era of European colonialism. Perhaps more than any other agricultural product, the banana reflects the evolution of...
The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s as ...
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117,02 zł |
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A Rice Village Saga: Three Decades of Green Revolution in the Philippines
ISBN: 9780389210238 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rice belt of Laguna Province, Philippines (popularly known as the heartland of the Green Revolution for its early adoption of modern rice varieties), has experienced dramatic economic and social changes in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Besides the major advances in new rice technology, four major forces have prompted change: increasing population pressure on limited land; implementation of land reform programs; developments in infrastructure such as irrigation and roads; and penetration of urban economic activities. A unique data set generated from many surveys during the...
The rice belt of Laguna Province, Philippines (popularly known as the heartland of the Green Revolution for its early adoption of modern rice varietie...
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526,80 zł |
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Principles of Tropical Horticulture
ISBN: 9781845935153 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing on the principles behind production practices and their scientific basis, rather than detailed biological traits of each crop, this text outlines successes and failures in practices to date and sets out how the quantity and quality of horticultural produce can improve in the future. Case studies are frequently used and chapters cover...
Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding ...
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236,13 zł |
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Food Insecurity? in the South: Some possible breaking points
ISBN: 9789966720559 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text encourages policy makers and farmers to use the drought resistant crops to face food security as an agribusiness. Due to failed rains, peasant farmers literally throw their resources annually into fields which yield nothing...courtesy of their attempt to look civilized by planting crops which non-primitive people associate with. If they produce the crops matching the climate of the areas...before they have access to irrigation..they will be sure to produce annually..and every season..and avoid the heavcy dependency ratio which has dragged the African from saving, investing and...
This text encourages policy makers and farmers to use the drought resistant crops to face food security as an agribusiness. Due to failed rains, peasa...
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201,72 zł |
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Agriculture and Environment for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9789996027093 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about indigenous ways of farming in Northern Malawi in the face of modernization and globalization pressures. It also impacts modernization and globalization in relation to agriculture and environment in the developing countries laying bare their impacts on smallholder farmers, agriculture in general, industry and the environment.
This book is about indigenous ways of farming in Northern Malawi in the face of modernization and globalization pressures. It also impacts modernizati...
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169,03 zł |
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Principles of Tropical Horticulture
ISBN: 9781780645414 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding of production and post-harvest systems, environmental adaptation techniques and marketing strategies. Focusing on the principles behind production practices and their scientific basis, rather than detailed biological traits of each crop, this text outlines successes and failures in practices to date and sets out how the quantity and quality of horticultural produce can improve in the future. Case studies are frequently used and chapters cover...
Principles of Tropical Horticulture leads the reader through a background of environmental influences and plant physiology to an understanding ...
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506,07 zł |
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When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin American Coffeepeople
ISBN: 9781938022685 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever your sentiments towards or knowledge of coffee, the stories coffee has to tell are surprising, intriguing, and always human. Part travelogue meets anthropological field notes, part industry review meets food sourcing expose, When Coffee Speaks is a collection of interviews with all kinds of coffeepeople in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia."
Whatever your sentiments towards or knowledge of coffee, the stories coffee has to tell are surprising, intriguing, and always human. Part travelogue ...
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73,02 zł |
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A Rice Village Saga: Three Decades of Green Revolution in the Philippines
ISBN: 9780333726174 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waves of modernizing forces, such as the commercialization of new technology, have been pressing major change upon rural communities in the Third World. But has modernization created greater poverty and inequality? The authors present the results of 30 years of empirical research.
Waves of modernizing forces, such as the commercialization of new technology, have been pressing major change upon rural communities in the Third Worl...
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403,47 zł |
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Tropical Forage Legumes: Harnessing the Potential of Desmanthus and Other Genera for Heavy Clay Soils
ISBN: 9781780646282 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the importance of heavy clay soils to agricultural productivity in the tropics and subtropics and the identification of adapted, productive forage legumes for this environment. Covering over four decades of research, Tropical Forage Legumes:
- Includes a detailed analysis of the forage germplasm available which is adapted to heavy clay soils - Covers the evaluation of successful native and exotic forage legume species that have potential for Belizean soils, and the adaptation of a wide range of forages on Australian clay soils - Explores the... This book explores the importance of heavy clay soils to agricultural productivity in the tropics and subtropics and the identification of adapted, pr...
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847,19 zł |
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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
ISBN: 9780190222987 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades. The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers in their production; their economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. The planting of these crops is controversial because they are often sown on formerly forested or savanna lands, rely on large farmers and agribusiness rather than smallholders for their development, and largely supply export markets. This book provides a comparative...
Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades. The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution
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454,55 zł |
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The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies
ISBN: 9780128053126 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies describes and synthesizes existing methodologies for evaluating competitiveness in agriculture, introduces extensions and refinements, and provides a novel approach based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. As exports of tropical fruit, nuts, and other high-value crops have been growing very rapidly from developing countries, but often encounter serious obstacles in their value chains, this book demonstrates how national agricultural policy is oftentimes... The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies describes and synthesizes existing methodolo... |
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268,23 zł |
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Sugarcane Bioenergy for Sustainable Development: Expanding Production in Latin America and Africa
ISBN: 9781138312944 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes case reports from results from the LACAF Project in which the Colombian and Mozambican cases are presented. Includes work from the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil.
Includes case reports from results from the LACAF Project in which the Colombian and Mozambican cases are presented. Includes work from the State Univ...
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707,28 zł |
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Brexit and Aviation Law
ISBN: 9781138591370 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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277,99 zł |
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Handbook of Diseases of Banana, Abacá and Enset
ISBN: 9781780647197 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the large number of diseases, disorders and injuries that can cause severe economic losses to banana, abaca and enset crops, and the fungi, bacteria, phytoplasmas, viruses, nematodes and abiotic factors involved. The monoculture of certain banana cultivars in large plantations make the crop particularly susceptible to catastrophic losses from disease and smallholders can also experience major problems. New approaches to breeding, crop management and handling are being developed to meet challenges posed by emerging threats. Handbook of Diseases of...
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the large number of diseases, disorders and injuries that can cause severe economic losses to banana, abac...
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562,23 zł |
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Prospects and Utilization of Tropical Plantation Trees
ISBN: 9781138336896 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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780,44 zł |
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Field Trials in Oil Palm Breeding: A Manual
ISBN: 9781789241396 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,87 zł |
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Tropical Roots and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato, Yams and Aroids
ISBN: 9781789243369 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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355,31 zł |
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Diseases of Field Crops and Their Management
ISBN: 9780367540418 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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926,78 zł |
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Coloring Calendar 2020 Beach Dreams
ISBN: 9781642527049 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,64 zł |
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