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| Author | : Henning Steinfeld |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789251055717 |
"The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.
| Author | : Jules N. Pretty |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2012-06-25 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1136529276 |
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
| Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1136498877 |
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels and FAO's viewpoint on appropriate recommendations for policy formulation. SOLAW focuses on these key dimensions of analysis: (i) quantity, quality of land and water resources, (ii) the rate of use and sustainable management of these resources in the context of relevant socio-economic driving factors and concerns, including food security and poverty, and climate change. This is the first time that a global, baseline status report on land and water resources has been made. It is based on several global spatial databases (e.g. land suitability for agriculture, land use and management, land and water degradation and depletion) for which FAO is the world-recognized data source. Topical and emerging issues on land and water are dealt with in an integrated rather than sectoral manner. The implications of the status and trends are used to advocate remedial interventions which are tailored to major farming systems within different geographic regions.
| Author | : Hiroshan Hettiarachchi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2018-03-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 331974268X |
This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenges during implementation. On a global scale, over 20 million hectares of agricultural land are irrigated using wastewater. This is one good, and perhaps the most prominent, example of the safe use potential of wastewater. Water scarcity and the cost of energy and fertilisers are among the main factors driving millions of farmers and other entrepreneurs to make use of wastewater. In order to address the technical, institutional, and policy challenges of safe water reuse, developing countries and countries in transition need clear institutional arrangements and more skilled human resources, with a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of wastewater use. Stakeholders in wastewater irrigation who need to implement from scratch or improve current conditions, find it difficult to gather the necessary information on practical implementation aspects. The main objective of this book is to bridge that gap.
| Author | : Maite M. Aldaya |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2012-08-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136538526 |
People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. Indirect use refers to the 'virtual water' embedded in tradable goods and commodities, such as cereals, sugar or cotton. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. This book offers a complete and up-to-date overview of the global standard on water footprint assessment as developed by the Water Footprint Network. More specifically it: o Provides a comprehensive set of methods for water footprint assessment o Shows how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses o Contains detailed worked examples of how to calculate green, blue and grey water footprints o Describes how to assess the sustainability of the aggregated water footprint within a river basin or the water footprint of a specific product o Includes an extensive library of possible measures that can contribute to water footprint reduction
| Author | : American Society of Agronomy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Agriculture |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Pierre J. Gerber |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
The current analysis was conducted to evaluate the potential of nutritional, manure and animal husbandry practices for mitigating methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) - i.e. non-carbon dioxide (CO2) - GHG emissions from livestock production. These practices were categorized into enteric CH4, manure management and animal husbandry mitigation practices. Emphasis was placed on enteric CH4 mitigation practices for ruminant animals (only in vivo studies were considered) and manure mitigation practices for both ruminant and monogastric species. Over 900 references were reviewed; simulation and life cycle assessment analyses were generally excluded
| Author | : Mark W. Rosegrant |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0896296466 |
A thirsty world; Alternative futures for water; Consequences of key policy changes; Implications for the future.
