Resources Tagged: Environmental Aspects
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Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry...
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This report is one of a series detailing results from the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme, a system-wide initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. The programs seeks to reconcile agricultural production and development with mitigation of the adverse...
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In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped-up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to...
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1995-07-01 This book describes the necessity of properly recycling human waste to maintain fertility of food producing soils. This book explores potential ways to do this while keeping in mind that recycling human waste can be very dangerous. 164 pages, illustrated
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The primary objectives of this study are: evaluation of plant species identified and suggested as potential new crops for the US, selection of at least 15 promising species for further testing, evaluation of available information about these species, and formulation of detailed plans for a Phase...
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This paper presentsthe findings of a feeding trial based on mungbean supplementation that was conducted among schoolchildren in southern India.
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The world is witnessing major shifts in dietary patterns and--in parallel--a signficant threat to agricultural biodiversity. The implications for human health and the resilience of our food systems are far reaching. As this paper shows, these two phenomena are interconnected. It calls for action...
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The first part of this volume reviews the current shrimp farming industry in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and Ecuador. In the stock quality section of this volume, high health shrimp systems, potential for genetic improvement of farmed stocks, and probiotic manipulation of hatchery...
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Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his own concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning...
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Developed by and for college students, this is the first book to outline a detailed, practical program for researching, evaluating, and improving the environmental integrity of college campuses. Profiling the successful environmental programs of schools around the globe, this guide tells how to...