The Ecology of Intercropping

The Ecology of Intercropping
Author: John H. Vandermeer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1992-08-20
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521346894

This study shows how classical ecological principles, especially those relating to competition and population ecology, can be applied to growing two or more crops together and how the approach can improve agricultural yields.

Crop Rotation on Organic Farms

Crop Rotation on Organic Farms
Author: Charles L. Mohler
Publisher: Natural Resource Agriculture and Engineering Service (Nraes)
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2009
Genre: Crop rotation
ISBN: 9781933395210

Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms

Climate Change, Intercropping, Pest Control and Beneficial Microorganisms
Author: Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2009-09-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9048127165

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to centuries. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientific, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

Statistical Design and Analysis for Intercropping Experiments

Statistical Design and Analysis for Intercropping Experiments
Author: Walter T. Federer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387226478

Intercropping is an area of research for which there is a desperate need, both in developing countries where people are rapidly depleting scarce resources and still starving, and in developed countries, where more ecologically and economically sound ways of feeding ourselves must be developed. The only published guidelines for conducting such research and analyzing the data have been scattered about in various journal articles, many of which are hard to find. This book condenses these methods and will be immensely valuable to agricultural researchers and to the statisticians who help them design their experiments and interpret their results.

Management and Evaluation of Intercropping Systems with Cassava

Management and Evaluation of Intercropping Systems with Cassava
Author: Dietrich Leihner
Publisher: CIAT
Total Pages: 77
Release: 1983
Genre: Cassava
ISBN: 8489206325

Basic aspects of presently practiced intercropping systems; Improved technology for cassava intercropping; Plant type selection for associacion; Relative time of planting; Planting density; Planting pattern; Mineral nutrition and fertilization; Evaluation of intercropping systems.