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Food from Dry Lands - Integrated Approach to Planning of Agricultural Development (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,426
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Food from Dry Lands - Integrated Approach to Planning of Agricultural Development (Hardcover): Th. Alberda, Etc, H. Van Keulen,...

Food from Dry Lands - Integrated Approach to Planning of Agricultural Development (Hardcover)

Th. Alberda, Etc, H. Van Keulen, N.G. Seligman, C.T. de Wit

Series: System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development, v. 1

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The book centres around an analysis of the options for the agronomic development of semiarid regions with winter rains (i.e. Mediterranean regions). Data obtained in the northern Negev desert in Israel served as a starting point. On the basis of these data crop and sheep husbandry systems were designed and integrated into agro-pastoral systems in which small-grain crops act as a buffer for feed production. These systems serves as a basis for rational planning of regional agricultural development under alternative development objectives. In analyzing the possibilities a three-step approach was developed: first the feasibility and robustness of selected innovative techniques at the farm level were investigated in relation to variability in weather and prices, then a matrix of production techniques for a region was formulated in terms of their physical imputs and outputs, and finally this matrix was embedded into a dynamic multiple-goal linear programming model. In comparing results for different goals, the consequencess for goal achievement and desired production techniques can be made explicit, and in this way the book can be a guide for actual development planning in semiarid regions.

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Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development, v. 1
Release date: October 1992
First published: October 1992
Editors: Th. Alberda • Etc • H. Van Keulen • N.G. Seligman • C.T. de Wit
Dimensions: 230mm (L)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-1877-4
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant reproduction & propagation > General
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LSN: 0-7923-1877-3
Barcode: 9780792318774

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