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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques

Extensive Aquaculture (Hardcover): Bruno Augusto Amato Borges Extensive Aquaculture (Hardcover)
Bruno Augusto Amato Borges
R4,561 R3,976 Discovery Miles 39 760 Save R585 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Intensive Aquaculture (Hardcover): Bruno Augusto Amato Borges Intensive Aquaculture (Hardcover)
Bruno Augusto Amato Borges
R4,563 R3,978 Discovery Miles 39 780 Save R585 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Goiaba - Gestao Integrada de Cultivo (Portuguese, Paperback): Hamilton G Guerra Goiaba - Gestao Integrada de Cultivo (Portuguese, Paperback)
Hamilton G Guerra
R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fisheries Resource Conservation (Hardcover): Bruno Augusto Amato Borges Fisheries Resource Conservation (Hardcover)
Bruno Augusto Amato Borges
R4,547 R3,961 Discovery Miles 39 610 Save R586 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book Fisheries Resource Conservation discusses contemporary issues affecting global fish populations. This book describes insufficient conservation measures, jurisdictional disputes and illegal fishing vessels as some of the issues that threaten fish stocks. It stresses that there's an urgent need to adopt sustainable fishing practices, since communities that depend on fishery resources risk having their livelihoods stopped when fish populations are threatened. This book mentions the impact of globalization on local fish stocks, where the influx of external fishing boats into coastal waters has severely affected some countries' ability to fulfill domestic demand for the commodity. People must understand the importance of preserving fish populations if it's to be used as a long-term food resource.

Maracuja - Aplicacao Das Boas Praticas Agricolas (Portuguese, Paperback): Hamilton G Guerra Maracuja - Aplicacao Das Boas Praticas Agricolas (Portuguese, Paperback)
Hamilton G Guerra
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pinha - Gestao Integrada da Pinha (Portuguese, Paperback): Hamilton G Guerra Pinha - Gestao Integrada da Pinha (Portuguese, Paperback)
Hamilton G Guerra
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manejo de Lavouras de Coffea Canephora - An lise de Viabilidade E Recomenda  es T cnicas Para a Cafeicultura No Munic pio de Pl... Manejo de Lavouras de Coffea Canephora - An lise de Viabilidade E Recomenda es T cnicas Para a Cafeicultura No Munic pio de Pl cido de Castro - AC (Portuguese, Paperback)
Lucas Wadt; Contributions by Paulo G. S. Wadt; Vinicius C Barreiros
R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam - An Ecological History, 1897-1975 (Paperback): Michitake Aso Rubber and the Making of Vietnam - An Ecological History, 1897-1975 (Paperback)
Michitake Aso
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a key commodity around which life and history have revolved. In this pathbreaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbors, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Tracing the stories of agronomists, medical doctors, laborers, and leaders of independence movements, Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways. As rubber cultivation funded infrastructural improvements and the creation of a skilled labor force, private and state-run plantations became landscapes of oppression, resistance, and modernity. Synthesizing archival material in English, French, and Vietnamese, Aso uses rubber plantations as a lens to examine the entanglements of nature, culture, and politics and demonstrates how the demand for rubber has impacted nearly a century of war and, at best, uneasy peace in Vietnam.

Secondary Agriculture - Sustainability and Livelihood in India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): F. A. Bahar, M. Anwar Bhat, Syed... Secondary Agriculture - Sustainability and Livelihood in India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
F. A. Bahar, M. Anwar Bhat, Syed Sheraz Mahdi
R4,025 Discovery Miles 40 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes. The term 'secondary' has a bearing on climate change adaptation and its mitigation, small farm viability and profitability, food security, nutrition, sustainable utilization of natural resources, and optimal usage of produce from primary agriculture and farm incomes. Promoting secondary agriculture has implications on attaining sustainable development goals, which aim to connect primary, secondary and tertiary sectors by using slack/idle factors of production, such as land and labour, contributing to primary agriculture production, capturing 'value' in primary agricultural activities, and generating additional income at the enterprise level. In context to same, the chapters of this book have been designed to promote secondary agriculture through low-cost skills and technology applications in agriculture and by upscaling knowledge via integrating primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of agriculture. The motivation behind this book is to address the challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses facing the farming community; to increase farmers income through low-cost skills and technology applications in agriculture; to upscale knowledge by integrating primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of agriculture. The food processing sector in India is still in a nascent stage with only 8 per cent of the produce being processed as against 80-98 per cent in case of high-income countries (Government of India, 2008, 2010). The food processing sector is now receiving the boost with the annual growth of 13.2 per cent in registered food processing units during 2004-10 (Government of India, 2011). Against this backdrop, there is a strong need to strategically handle the situation in order to facilitate a self-sustainable and long-run growth of the sector, which is felt possible by focusing on Secondary Agriculture. Though not a panacea for all ailments of the primary sector, but it can definitely drive the growth.

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh (Hardcover): Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam, Ahmadul Hassan, Abu Saleh Khan,... Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh (Hardcover)
Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam, Ahmadul Hassan, Abu Saleh Khan, Alex Ruane, …
R4,489 Discovery Miles 44 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive integrated framework. First, the most recent science available is used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e. warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise) is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these. Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally, adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention strategies and investments in adaptation measures.

Agrarian Transformations - Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia (Paperback, New ed): Gillian Hart, Benjamin White,... Agrarian Transformations - Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia (Paperback, New ed)
Gillian Hart, Benjamin White, Andrew Turton
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Out of stock

This collection of fourteen essays presents a unique comparative analysis of agrarian change in the main rice-growing regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Its central theme is the interplay between agrarian relations and wider political-economic systems. By drawing on historical materials as well as intensive field research, the contributors show how local-level mechanisms of labor control and accumulation both reflect and alter larger political and economic forces. The key to understanding these connections lies in the structure and exercise of power at different levels of society.
The approach developed in this volume grows out of a set of detailed local-level studies in regions that have experienced rapid technological change and commercialization. This comparative focus calls into question widely held views of technology and the growth of markets as the chief sources of agrarian change. By relating local-level processes to variations in the structure of state power, the history of agrarian resistance, and the particular forms of capitalist development, the authors suggest an alternative approach to the analysis of agrarian change.

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