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Global climate change is a natural process that currently appears
to be strongly influenced by human activities, which increase
atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture
contributes about 20% of the world's global radiation forcing from
carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, and produces 50% of the
methane and 70% of the nitrous oxide of the human-induced emission.
Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases synthesizes the wealth of
information generated from the GRACEnet (Greenhouse gas Reduction
through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement network) effort with
contributors from a variety of backgrounds, and reports findings
with important international applications.
This book is the result of remarkable contribution from the experts
of interdisciplinary fields of Science with comprehensive, in-depth
and up-to-date research and reviews. It describes the applications
of date palm for food, medicine and the environmental sectors. Date
palm is one of the oldest cultivated trees and its fruit has been a
dietary staple around the world for many centuries. Date pulps
contain dietary fibers and easily digestible sugars (70%), mainly
glucose, sucrose and fructose. They also contain vitamins like
biotin, thiamine, riboflavin, ascorbic and folic acid that are
important for our body. The date palm fruit has been used in folk
remedies for the treatment of various infectious diseases, cancer
and immuno-modulatory activity. Date stones and date palm leaves
are freely and abundantly available biomass. Therefore, the
renovation of agricultural biomass wastes into activated carbons
for drinking water purification, wastewater treatment, treatment of
dyes, and metal-ions from aqueous solution would add value to
agricultural commodities which offer a solution to environmental
problems as well as reduce the cost of waste disposal.
This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input
and service delivery business models in terms of their
inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer
perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states:
Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The services discussed include
custom rental of farm machinery and equipment, franchising for
backward and forward linkage for farmers and the supermarkets for
delivery of farm inputs, and extension services. The book examines
agro-input and service delivery business models as institutional
innovations for inclusive and effective delivery of such services
in the small farmer context, based on primary data from the
agencies designing and implementing such models and the farmers who
make use of these inputs and services. Further, it identifies major
issues and challenges in the delivery of farm inputs and services
across regions and types of farmers and examines possible policy
and enabling provisions to promote cost-effective and high-quality
agro-input delivery channels.
Title 7 presents regulations governing the Office of the Secretary
of Agriculture and forty subordinate departments and agencies.
Regulated activities include: marketing services, food and consumer
services, crop insurance, plant and animal inspection, agricultural
research, natural resources, etc. Additions and revisions to this
section of the code are posted annually by January. Publication
follows within six months.
This book explores the role of in silico deployment in connection
with modulation techniques for improving sustainability and
competitiveness in the agri-food sector; pharmacokinetics and
molecular docking studies of plant-derived natural compounds; and
their potential anti-neurodegenerative activity. It also
investigates biochemical pathways for bacterial metabolite
synthesis, fungal diversity and plant-fungi interaction in plant
diseases, methods for predicting disease-resistant candidate genes
in plants, and genes-to-metabolites and metabolites-to-genes
approaches for predicting biosynthetic pathways in microbes for
natural product discovery. The respective chapters elaborate on the
use of in situ methods to study biochemical pathways for bacterial
metabolite synthesis; tools for plant metabolites in defence; plant
secondary metabolites in defence; plant growth metabolites;
characterisation of plant metabolites; and identification of plant
derived metabolites in the context of plant defence. The book
offers an unprecedented resource, highlighting state-of-the-art
research work that will greatly benefit researchers and students
alike, not only in the field of agriculture but also in many
disciplines in the life sciences and plant sciences.
This work is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural,
widely-calibrated checklist for EU sustainable landscape
management, which is intended to serve both as an analytical tool
of reference as well as a design tool for local, regional and
European policy making on sustainable developments.
The tool has been developed out of a multidisciplinary study in
EU countries which was designed to find out what would be the
overall requirements for a sustainable management of the landscape
of rural areas. Could these stipulations be brought together in a
comprehensive system with sufficient consistency to comply with the
notion that the landscape is an entity, which should be managed
accordingly? Cooperation of the scientific experts with those
involved in the practical side, and alternating plenary reporting
with subgroup visits to farms in the rural landscapes of the
participants' countries, allowed for the development of some truly
interdisciplinary teamwork. Organic agriculture has been included
to find out how organic agriculture contributes to the rural
landscape.
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