Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa

Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa
Author: John Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 896
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1317332261

Knowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security. This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers of change and strategic priorities for each of Africa’s fifteen farming systems and their main subsystems. It shows how a farming systems perspective can be used to identify pathways to household food security and poverty reduction, and how strategic interventions may need to differ from one farming system to another. In the analysis, emphasis is placed on understanding farming systems drivers of change, trends and strategic priorities for science and policy. Illustrated with full-colour maps and photographs throughout, the volume provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of Africa’s farming systems and pathways for the future to improve food and nutrition security. The book is an essential follow-up to the seminal work Farming Systems and Poverty by Dixon and colleagues for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Bank, published in 2001.

Measuring Plant-associated Nitrogen Fixation in Agricultural Systems

Measuring Plant-associated Nitrogen Fixation in Agricultural Systems
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9781921531262

Biological nitrogen fixation. Why, when an how to measure nitrogen fixation. Analysis of nitrogen. Nitrogen Balance Method. Nitrogen Difference method. Ureide (N solute) metode. N-isotopic methods. N-abundance method. N isotopic ditution method. prcaution whenquantifying N2 fixation associated with no-nodulatin plants (associative N2 fixation). Assays of nitrogenase activity.

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods
Author: Rangaswamy Muniappan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2009-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521877911

This book discusses the biological control of weeds using arthropods, providing ecological management models for use across the tropical world.

Tapping the Green Market

Tapping the Green Market
Author: Abraham Guillen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1136555250

There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural needs. However, they have been largely overlooked in mainstream conservation and forestry politics. This volume explains the use and importance of certification and eco-labelling for guaranteeing best management practices of non-timber forest products in the field. Using extensive case studies and global profiles of non-timber forest products, this work not only seeks to further our comprehension of certification processes but also broaden understanding of non-timber forest product management, harvesting and marketing. It should be useful to forest managers, policy-makers and conservation organizations as well as for academics in these areas.