Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Author: G. Thottappilly
Publisher: IITA
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1992
Genre: Agricultural biotechnology
ISBN: 9789781310904

Need for biotechnology research in Africa; Enhancing the genetic base; Cell and tissue culture; Controlled gene manipulation; Using molecular markers; Other selected applications of biotechnology; Policy issues.

Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture

Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture
Author: African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Conference
Publisher: IITA
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1992-10-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780471935605

Biological nitrogen fixation in tropical agrosystems: twenty years of biological nitrogen fixation research in Africa; Sustainable agriculture: definition and measurement; Biological nitrogen fixation systems in tropical ecosystems: an overview; A protocol for screening legumes as soil-improving crops; The sustenance of tropical agriculture with multipurpose azolla; Facteurs pedoclimatiques limitant la lixation biologique l'azole; Response of some tropical nitrogen-fixing woody legumes to drought and inoculation with mycorrhiza; Improvement to the Phaseolus/Rhizobium symbiosis, with particular reference to the Caribbean region; Effect of pest management systems on biological nitrogen fixation; Agronomic evaluation of a rock phosphate as a phosphorus source for Leucaena leucocephala grown on an utisol; Nodulation of soybean grown under field conditions and inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains; Effect of fertilization and Rhizobium inoculation on the growth of Leucaena and Gliricidia on an alfisol in south-western Nigeria; Early growth and nodulation in Leucaena and Gliricidia and the effects or pruning on biomass productivity; Comparative stude on the growth and productivity of Sesbania and Leucaena in the Central Plateau region, Rwanda; Supernoculation and non-nodulation mutants of soybean; Genetically improved rhizobia and their use in agriculture; Sustainability of nitrogen-fixing cropping systems: Nodulation and nitrogen fixation and transfer in a cowpea/rice cropping system; The role of legumes in sustaiing soil productivity and controlling soil erosion; Fitting soil-improving legumes into inland valley rice-baes cropping systems in West Africa; Herbage yield and soil fertility restoration potential of some tropical forage legumes.

Population and Food in the Early Twenty-first Century

Population and Food in the Early Twenty-first Century
Author: Nurul Islam
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780896293311

The IFPRI roundtable, with its focus on the prospects of a long-term balance between food demand and supply, provided a link between the two conferences, as the adequacy of food supply at affordable prices for future populations is a crucial element in a strategy designed to alleviate poverty and accelerate growth, in the context of an increasing population.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1984
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Employment-unemployment

Employment-unemployment
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1096
Release: 1974
Genre: Labor supply
ISBN: