Soil Fungi and Soil Fertility: An Introduction to Soil Mycology, 2nd Edition (Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies)

Tropical Soils: Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture (Topics in Sustainable Agronomy)

Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, bargains regularly with the constitution and serve as of agroecosystems at assorted degrees of solution. during this text/reference, the authors describe by way of agroecology the tropical environments of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin and critical the USA, concentrating on creation and administration structures certain to every sector.

The Atlas of World Hunger

Prior this yr, President Obama declared one among his best priorities to be “making certain that folks may be able to get adequate to consume. ” the USA spends approximately 5 billion funds on foodstuff reduction and similar courses every year, yet nonetheless, either regionally and across the world, hundreds of thousands of individuals are hungry.

Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Elevated agricultural productiveness is a tremendous stepping stone at the course out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, yet farmers there face great demanding situations bettering construction. bad soil, inefficient water use, and a scarcity of entry to plant breeding assets, nutritious animal feed, top of the range seed, and gas and electricity-combined with the most severe environmental stipulations on Earth-have made yields in crop and animal construction a long way decrease in those areas than global averages.