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  1. Rima Mekdaschi Studer and Hanspeter Liniger This publicationon “Water Harvesting – Guidelines to Good Practice”was mandated by IFAD, prepared by WOCAT in collaboration with MetaMeta and RAIN and funded by SDC and IFAD. Find out more about theproject "Water Harvesting". Water security is a prerequisite to achieve food security. Water...
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  2. Food environments is a new concept and its relevance for a better understanding of food systems is still a matter of debate. Researchers have not yet reached a unique agreed-upon definition of food environments but they tend to converge towards a combination of external and personal factors...
  3. Rima Mekdaschi Studer et Hanspeter Liniger (Centre pour le dévelopement et l’environnement, CDE) Ces directives donnent une vue d’ensemble des bonnes pratiques éprouvées de collecte de l’eau dans le monde entier. Celles-ci constituent un guide de référence pratique tout en offrant un support et une expertise technique spécifique pour l’intégration des technologies de collecte de l’eau dans...
  4. Edited by Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Eliot Gee This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing these problems.
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations *Available as Download Only Bees provide a critical link in the maintenance of ecosystems, pollination. They play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival of many plants, enhancing forest regeneration, providing sustainability and adaptation to climate change and improving...
  6. Sergio Gomez y Paloma • Laura Riesgo • Kamel Louhichi Editors Food and nutrition security has become one of the most important items on today’s international political agenda and a serious issue for governments around the world. Despite the availability of enough food globally, over a billion people continue to suffer from the lack of nutritious food. The...
  7. Metwally, S. (ed.); Viljoen, G. (ed.); El Idrissi, A. (ed.); For centuries, vaccinating animals has been the most cost‐ effective and sustainable measure to prevent and control infectious emerging and reemerging diseases. A prominent example of the merit of vaccination practices in eliminating major infectious animal epizootics is that of rinderpest, which...
  8. HANS RUTHENBERG The natural, economic, and socio-institutional conditions of agricultural production vary widely from place to place and over periods of time. In the process of adapting cropping patterns and farming practices to the conditions of each location and the aims of the farmers, more or less distinct...
  9. Loconto, Allison Marie ; Jimenez, A ; Vandecandelaere, Emilie 197 pp. : ill. INRA Science & Impact [ Gift of Dr Abram Bicksler Jan 24, 2023 ] This book examines the emerging phenomenon of markets for “agroecological” products and asks two fundamental questions: (i) do they exist? and (ii) what forms do they take? Based on a meta-analysis of 12 case...
    658.8 LOC
  10. Norman Uphoff, et. al. 764 pp : with charts Books in soils, plants and the environment, Vol. 113 Global agriculture is now at the crossroads. The Green Revolution of the last century is losing momentum. Rates of growth in food production are now declining, with land and water resources becoming scarcer, while world...
    621.4 UPH

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