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Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop
production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book
describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and
soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty
years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and
assesses the position of research within the
research-to-development continuum, including how innovations have
been validated with the intended beneficiaries. Using the
experience of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
(IITA) as a case study, the authors analyse how processes,
partnerships and other factors have affected research priorities,
the delivery of outputs, and their uptake by farming communities in
SSA. They evaluate both successes and failures of past investments
in soil fertility research and important lessons learnt which
provide crucial information for national and international
scientists currently engaged in this research area. The book is
organised in a number of chapters each covering a chronological
period characterised by its primary research content and approaches
and by the dominant research paradigms and delivery models.
Judicious soil fertility management is crucial for sustainable crop
production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This book
describes the various concepts and approaches underlying soil and
soil fertility management research in SSA over the last fifty
years. It provides examples of important innovations generated and
assesses the position of research within the
research-to-development continuum, including how innovations have
been validated with the intended beneficiaries. Using the
experience of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
(IITA) as a case study, the authors analyse how processes,
partnerships and other factors have affected research priorities,
the delivery of outputs, and their uptake by farming communities in
SSA. They evaluate both successes and failures of past investments
in soil fertility research and important lessons learnt which
provide crucial information for national and international
scientists currently engaged in this research area. The book is
organised in a number of chapters each covering a chronological
period characterised by its primary research content and approaches
and by the dominant research paradigms and delivery models.
Covering all aspects of practical plant nematology in subtropical
and tropical agriculture, the third edition of this definitive
global reference work is fully revised and in full colour
throughout. It covers the presence, distribution, symptomology and
management of all economically important plant parasitic nematodes
damaging the world's major food and cash crops. This includes:
rice, cereals, solanum and sweet potatoes (and other root and tuber
crops), food legumes, vegetables, peanut, citrus, fruit tree crops,
coconut and other palms, coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, sugarcane,
tobacco, pineapple, cotton, other tropical fibres, spices and
medicinal plants. New content for this edition includes: - A
chapter on nematode soil biodiversity and soil health. -
Reflections on the future impact of nematodes and nematology on
food security. - The importance of climate change, emerging
threats, and new management technologies for large and small
subsistence growers. - Significant revisions to the IPM chapter and
chapters on vegetables, citrus, legumes, tuber crops, cotton,
peanut and banana where major advances in nematode management have
occurred. This book is highly illustrated, with up-to-date
practical guidance on methods of extraction, processing and
diagnosing of different plant and soil nematodes and on integrated
pest management. It remains an invaluable resource for those
studying and working in the area of crop protection.
This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the
research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in
tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological
framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to
emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are
core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows
a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM
applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals,
legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and
plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre
crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests. Integrated Pest
Management in Tropical Regions: * Explores the techniques aimed at
controlling pests in agro-ecosystems sustainably while reducing
secondary effects on the environment and on plant, animal and human
health * Contextualizes IPM within our current knowledge of climate
change and the global movement of organisms * Covers integrated
strategies to contains pests in major tropical food crops, fibre
crops and trees * Discusses options and challenges for pest control
in tropical agriculture
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