harvesting system Books and Publications

Harvesting Operations in the Tropics

The book brings together information on harvest methods, system productivity, and methods for conducting safe, efficient, and environmentally acceptable operations in tropical forests. It highlights the challenges of harvest operations in the tropics, includes techniques that have been shown to be successful, and discusses newer technologies. The ...

By Springer

Hidden Harvest: The Value of Wild Resources in Agricultural Systems - A Project Summary (1995)

By Earthprint Ltd

Hidden Harvest: Wild Foods and Agricultural Systems. A Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography, The

By Earthprint Ltd

Training course on water harvesting (CD-ROM) (En)

Series: FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series - CD-ROMThis CD-ROM provides training modules and other relevant material on water harvesting in five languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French and Spanish), focusing on 'runoff farming systems' for improved production of crops, trees and rangeland species in drought-prone areas. The training ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Information Network on Post-harvest Operations - Réseau d'information sur les opération aprés récolte - Red de información sobre operaciones poscosech

INPhO provides information on post-production systems for an expanding range of products, from maturity to consumption. The INPhO CD-ROM 2004 allows offline use of the extensive INPhO virtual library, provides 'Who's who in post-harvest' and the 'INPhO cookbook' as browser-searchable databases, and presents the first 30 chapters of the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Continuous Cover Forestry

The large-scale application of new silvicultural systems has become a political reality in many parts of the world. This involves a gradual tarnsformation of traditional silvicultural practice towards Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), also know as near-natural forest management, favouring mixed uneven-aged stands, site-adapted tree species and ...

By Springer

Manual for the preparation and sale of fruits and vegetables. From field to market (En)

Series: FAO Agricultural Services BulletinsThe fruit and vegetable production sector of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern Europe is facing a new situation where, on the one hand, supermarket chains account for an increasing percentage of the domestic food retail market and, on the other hand, producers must compete in an ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Biodrainage. Principles, experiences and applications. IPTRID Knowledge Synthesis Report No. 6 - May 2002 (En)

Series: Non-series TitlesBiodrainage relies on vegetation, rather than mechanical means, to remove excess water. It is economically attractive because it require only an initial investment for planting the vegetation, and when established, the system could produce economic returns by means of fodder, wood or fibre harvested. This publication is a ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Quality and Safety Database. Rev. 1. (CD-ROM) (English)

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Quality and Safety Database is part of the FAO activities aimed at enhancing information access and exchange as means to improve the safe production, harvesting, handling, storage, transport and marketing of fresh fruit and vegetable. The database focuses on resource materials and training activities, and has been ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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, Latin America and the Caribbean, North ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture

In many parts of the world, weather and climate are one of the biggest production risks and uncertainty factors impacting on agricultural systems performance and management. Both structural and non-structural measures can be used to reduce the impacts of the variability (including extremes) of climate resources on crop production. While the ...

By Springer

Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry

Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry synthesizes information needed to design or implement sustainable forest management systems for production of biomass for energy in conjunction with other forest products. It is organized around the criteria for sustainable forest management: productivity, environment, social issues, economics, and legal and ...

By Springer

Medicinal plants for forest conservation and health care (En)

This volume brings together a collection of papers by some experts in medicinal plants. It is presented as a contribution to clarifying the many policy and technical issues associated with the conservation, use, production and trade of medicinal plants. This publication draws attention to the huge contribution of medicinal plants to traditional ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Food, the weak link that brought down earlier civilizations, is the sector most affected by climate change. And it could bring our own civilization down if we stay with business as usual.We are entering a new food era, one marked by higher food prices, growing numbers of hungry people, and an intensifying competition for land and water that has ...

By Earth Policy Institute

Capture-based aquaculture. The fattening of eels, groupers, tunas and yellowtails (En)

Capture-based aquaculture' defines and reviews certain practices that are shared between aquaculture and capture fisheries. It specifically considers the on-growing of fattening of four species groups - eels, groupers, tunas and yellowtails - which is based on the use of wild-caught 'seed'. The report begins with an introduction on the overlap ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Biotechnology of Food Crops in Developing Countries

Tropical crops such as cowpea, yam, plantain, and cassava are heavily underresearched but, in addition to rice, maize, wheat, and potato, are important as primary or secondary food staples in the developing countries. The modern tools of molecular and cellular technology offer the opportunity not only to make substantial gains in knowledge of ...

By Springer

Hay and straw conservation for small-scale farming and pastoral conditions (En)

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection SeriesHay is the oldest and most important conserved fodder, and it can be made with simple equipment, manually or with mechanization. Many small-scale farmers make hay and store crop residues to carry livestock through periods of shortage. Practices vary in different parts of the world, but follow some ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development

Long-range models that include product and resource detail are essential to meaningful analysis of both industry and resource sustainability. Taking this as its central argument, this book provides essential reading to anyone interested in projecting the future of either the forest products market and/or the forest resource conditions. It is aimed ...

By Springer

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment examines the processes whereby plants monitor environmental conditions and orchestrate their response to change, an ability paramount to the life of all plants. “Excess light”, absorbed by the light-harvesting systems of photosynthetic organisms, is an integrative indicator of the ...

By Springer

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment

Photoprotection, Photoinhibition, Gene Regulation, and Environment examines the processes whereby plants monitor environmental conditions and orchestrate their response to change, an ability paramount to the life of all plants. “Excess light”, absorbed by the light-harvesting systems of photosynthetic organisms, is an integrative indicator of the ...

By Springer

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