agriculture land use Books and Publications

Agro-MAPS. A global spatial database of subnational agricultural land-use statistics (CD-ROM) (English)

Series: FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series - CD-ROM(Updated: June 2006) This CD-ROM contains recent statistics on crop production, area harvested and crop yields, aggregated by subnational administrative districts, for more than 130 countries, in seven geographic regions (Africa, Asia, Near East in Asia, ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use patterns are foreseen in the next couple of decades in response to shifts in climate, greenhouse gas management initiatives, population growth and other forces. The book ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment

of sustainability, which originated in agriculture and land use, is reaching many other areas of society and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Participatory Learning and Action 52: general issue

in government agricultural extension services in Namibia;participatory land ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes

The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability

Series: Environment and Natural Resources SeriesThis monograph is part of a series of reports that explain how techniques of spatial analysis can be used to investigate poverty and environment links worldwide. It combines rural population distribution data contained in the global rural population database for the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Small and Medium forest enterprise: China, A discussion paper

There are 5 other country discussion papers in this series. For the set, quote order code, 9546IIED.Forest enterprise in China has been dominated over the recent past by the State. But the 1990s movement towards a market-based economy saw a rapid growth in non-state enterprise, particularly in the secondary and tertiary processing industries. Small and Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) have an ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Maryland Farmland Conservation: Supporting Sustainable Use of Land through Tax Policy Report

Maryland’s population is increasing rapidly while the state continues to lose its agricultural lands. This study explores Maryland’s primary tax measures affecting agriculture, the agricultural use assessment (AUA) and the agricultural land transfer tax (ATT), in ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Fertilizer use by crop (En)

Series: FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition BulletinsMost of the world's hunger and poverty occurs in rural areas. The use of fertilizers could improve agricultural productivity in these areas. However, many developing countries attach a low priority to the subsistence/smallholder sector, particularly in ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Ecosystem Approaches to Landscape Management in Central Europe

The challenges in ecosystem science encompass a broadening and strengthening of interdisciplinary ties, the transfer of knowledge of the ecosystem across scales, and the inclusion of anthropogenic impacts and human behavior into ecosystem, landscape, and regional models. The volume addresses these points within the context of studies in major ecosystem types viewed as the building blocks of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Summary of world food and agricultural statistics 2003 (En)

will find the tables useful. The tables are organized in sections covering agriculture macroeconomic ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Farmers' Views on the Future of Food and Small Scale Producers (English)

The outcomes of an electronic conference on the ‘Future of Food and Small Scale Producers’ are presented in this report. The electronic discussion primarily involved indigenous, small and family farmers, landless and fisherfolk as well as their representative organisations. The focus was on small-scale food producers – women and men who produce and harvest field and tree crops as well as ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Soil Biology and Agriculture in the Tropics

The relationships between soils, microbes and humans are of crucial relevance in the tropics, where plant stress and microbial activity are exacerbated. This volume of Soil Biology presents the living component of tropical soils, showing how it is shaped by environmental conditions and emphasizing its dramatic impact on human survival and well-being. Following an introduction to the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Plant Ecology

This textbook covers Plant Ecology from the molecular to the global level. It covers the following areas in unprecedented breadth and depth: - Molecular ecophysiology (stress physiology: light, temperature, oxygen deficiency, drought, salt, heavy metals, xenobiotica and biotic stress factors)- Autecology (whole plant ecology: thermal balance, water, nutrient, carbon relations)- Ecosystem ecology ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH