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Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture:
Upscaling in Developing Countries defines integrated climate smart
agricultural technologies (ICSAT) as a suite of interconnected
techniques and practices that enhance quantity and quality of
agricultural products with minimum impact on the environment. These
ICSAT are centered on three main pillars, increased production and
income, adaptation and resilience to climate change, and minimizing
GHG emissions. This book brings together technologies contributing
to the three pillars, explains the context in which they can be
scaled up, and identifies research and development gaps as areas
requiring further investigation. It stresses the urgency in
critically analyzing and recommending ICSAT and scaling out the
efforts of both developing and disseminating these in an integrated
manner. The book discusses, synthesizes, and offers alternative
solutions to agriculture production systems and socio-economic
development. It brings together biophysical and socioeconomic
disciplines in evaluating suitable ICSAT in an effort to help
reduce poverty and food insecurity.
MRI Atlas of the Infant Rat Brain: Brain Segmentation features an
entirely new coronal, sagittal and horizontal set of tissue cut in
regular 9 m intervals with accompanying photographs of MRI data and
color drawings of selected brain regions in the three planes. The
use of the single brain allows for greater consistency between
sections, while color masking offers advances in manual
segmentation techniques with increased refinement in the definition
of brain areas. Readers will benefit from uniform and consistent
manual tissue segmentation of MRI data in an infant rat brain. This
volume provides readers the first infant rat brain MRI atlas and a
valuable resource in research analyses of the developing brain for
structural and functional MRI analyses.
New Pesticides and Soil Sensors, a volume in the Nanotechnology in
the Agri-Food Industry series, is a practical resource that
demonstrates how nanotechnology is a highly attractive tool that
offers new options for the formulation of 'nanopesticides'. Recent
advances in nanopesticide research is reviewed and divided into
several themes, including improvement of the water solubility of
poorly soluble pesticide active ingredients to improve
bioavailability and the encapsulation of pesticide active
ingredients within permeable nanoparticles with the aim of
releasing pesticide active ingredients in a controlled or targeted
manner, while also protecting active ingredients from premature
photo-degradation.
[F]or anyone who has ever sat in a city office dreaming of owning a
smallholding one day and living off the land, this book will
inspire them to take the plunge. Rated 5 stars by The
Telegraph I raced through this beautiful story with mounting awe
and excitement. What Lynn and Sandra have achieved on their croft
in Scotland is a miracle of rebirth on land Isabella Tree,
author of Wilding The inspiring story of two courageous women
who took the leap and embraced a whole new way of life. Kate
Humble, author of Home Cooked As seen on the BBC’s This
Farming Life Our Wild Farming Life is what happens when you
follow your dreams of living on the land; a story of how two people
became farmers – and how they learned to make a living from it,
their way. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family and jobs in
England to travel north to Scotland to find a small piece of land
they could call their own. They had no money, no plan and no
experience in farming. They had in mind keeping a few chickens, a
kitchen garden and renting out some camping space, but instead,
they fell in love with Lynbreck Croft – 150 acres of wild
Scottish Highlands filled with opportunity and beauty, shrouded by
the Cairngorms mountains. This is the inspirational true story of
Lynbreck Croft – a regenerative Scottish croft rooted in local
food and community – and the dreams of two women in search of a
new, wilder existence. In Our Wild Farming Life, Lynn and Sandra
recount their experiences as they rebuild their new home and work
out what kind of farmers they want to be. They learn how to work
with Highland cattle, become part of the crofting community and
begin to truly understand how they can farm in harmony with nature
to produce wonderful food for themselves and the people around
them. Through efforts like these, Lynn and Sandra have been
able to combine regenerative farming practices with old crofting
traditions to keep their own personal values intact.
Soil Magnetism: Applications in Pedology, Environmental Science and
Agriculture provides a systematic, comparative, and detailed
overview of the magnetic characterization of the major soil units
and the observed general relationships, possibilities, and
perspectives in application of rock magnetic methods in soil
science, agriculture, and beyond. Part I covers detailed magnetic
and geochemical characterization of major soil types according to
the FAO classification system, with Part II covering the mapping of
topsoil magnetic signatures on the basis of soil magnetic
characteristics. The book concludes with practical examples on the
application of magnetic methods in environmental science,
agriculture, soil pollution, and paleoclimate.
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