The World Cassava Economy

The World Cassava Economy
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251043998

Cassava international trade, prices. Current research in biotechnology.

The Sweetpotato

The Sweetpotato
Author: Gad Loebenstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2009-03-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402094752

In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Author: Gregory J. Scott
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0896296350

Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies
Author: A. P. J. Mol
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739106082

Greening Industrialization in Asian Transitional Economies is an important collection of essays which examines environmental performance and the transition to market economies, particularly in China and Vietnam. A comprehensive assessment of the state of industrial environmental management, this informative volume looks at the movement for cleaner production from many perspectives, analyzing its historical roots, its political influences, its implementation, and its economic and technological feasability.

Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System

Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System
Author: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research
Publisher: IITA
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2000
Genre: Root crops
ISBN: 9789290602033

In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.