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  • Dada

    The art of absurdity, provocation, and radical imagination

    by G. Appolinaire, Victoria Charles ...
    Dada shocked the world between the years 1916 and 1922. Dada was not an art movement in the normal sense. It was a storm that broke over the art scene of the time, as the war upon the peoples. They consciously staged anti-art events. According to Max Ernst, it was the 'outbreak of anger and zest for life' at the same time. The indignation about the monstrous genocide during World War I was great ... Read more

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  • African Livestock Genetic Resources and Sustainable Breeding Strategies

    Unlocking a Treasure Trove and Guide for Improved Productivity

    Edited by Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Sunday O. Peters, Appolinaire Djikeng, John E. O. Rege ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is a rich resource that chronicles the abundant livestock genetic resources in Africa. Organized in five sections, the chapters trace special productive and adaptive attributes of African livestock breeds, past breed improvement efforts, capacity building and strategies to effective utilization of available genetic resources in the era of modern technologies. The authors ... Read more

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  • The Second Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Assessments

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on changes that have occurred during the period since the first report was published. It serves as a basis for a review, and potential update, of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, which ... Read more

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  • Sterile Insect Technique

    Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management

    Edited by Victor A. Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A.S. Robinson ...
    The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from ... Read more

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  • The Potato Crop

    Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind

    Edited by Hugo Campos, Oscar Ortiz ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of ... Read more

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  • Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments

    Edited by Katarzyna Negacz, Pier Vellinga, Edward Barrett-Lennard, Redouane Choukr-Allah, Theo Elzenga ...
    Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world’s attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments aims to ... Read more

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  • Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan

    by Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Sarwar Khan ...
    Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the economy and development of Pakistan providing food to consumers, raw materials to industries, and a market for industrial goods. Unfortunately, agricultural production is stagnant due to several barriers including a fixed cropping pattern, reliance on a few major crops, a narrow genetic pool, poor seed quality, and a changing climate. In addition, the high ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2

    Cultivation techniques

    by Mukesh Meena, Dr Q. Xue, J. Rudd, J. Bell, T. Marek, S. Liu, Tadesse Dessalegn, Tesfaye Solomon, Tesfaye Gebre Kristos, Abiy Solomon, Prof. Arun Kumar Joshi, Shure Seboka, Yazie Chane, Dr Bhadriraju Subramanyam, Kamala A. Roberts, Fetien Abay, Rizana Mahroof, J. R. Guarin, Dr Brian L. Beres, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Haley Catton, J. M. Clarke, K. Nilsen, D. Khitiri, X. Lin, Prof. C. J. Pozniak, K. Ammar, Dr Tinashe Chiurugwi, Simon Kerr, Simanchal Sahu, Ian Midgley, L. A. Boyd, Johnson Kamwaga, Peter Njau, Terry van Gevelt, Claudia Canales, Max Marcheselli, Dr Rajiv Kumar  Sharma, Dr W. Tadesse, A Amri, Prof. Peter J. Gregory, M Sanchez-Garcia, M El-Bouhssini, M Karrou, S Patil, F Bassi, Dr M. Baum, Prof. T. Oweis, Christina K. Clarke, Dr Vijesh Krishna, Alwin Keil, Sreejith Aravindakshan, Dr Reem Aboukhaddour, Dr Senthold Asseng, Professor Thomas Döring ...
    Series Book 6 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews advances in cultivation practice such as seed establishment and more efficient irrigation techniques;Summarises developments in ‘climate smart’ agriculture such as conservation tillage and organic wheat cultivation;Discusses ways of supporting smallholders improve wheat cultivation in North Africa and other regions in the developing world ... Read more

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  • Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System

    Global Context to Local Dynamics of Sustainable Agriculture

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Shabbir A. Shahid, Nazia Mintz-Habib ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany ... Read more

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  • Date Palm

    by Professor Jameel M Al-Khayri, Professor Shri Mohan Jain, Professor Dennis V Johnson, Dr Robert R Krueger, Dr Larbi Abahmane, Dr Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Dr Fatima-Zahra Akensous0, Dr M. Tahir Akram1, Dr Salah Mohammed Aleid2, Dr Melkamu Alemayehu3, Dr Abda Ali4, Dr Latifa Al-Kharusi5, Dr Mohammed Al-Mahish6, Dr Abdulrasoul Mosa Al-Omran7, Dr Lyutha Al-Subhi8, Dr Rashid Al-Yahyai9, Asunción Amorós0, Dr Mohamed Anli1, Dr Mohamed Marouf Aribi2, Dr Raja Ben-Laoaune3, Dr Houda Besser4, Dr Neeru Bhatt5, Dr Abderrahim Boutasknit6, Dr Roshini Brizmohun7, Dr Latifa Dhaouadi8, Dr Gisela Díaz9, Dr Raga Elzaki0, Dr Abdessamad Fakhech1, Dr Mohamed Abusaa Fennir2, Dr Ibrahim E. Greiby3, Dr Ayah R. Hilles4, Rhonda Janke5, Dr Muhammad Jafar Jaskani6, Dr Imran Ul Haq Khan7, Dr M Mumtaz Khan8, Dr Rashad Rasool Khan9, Dr Mithlesh Kumar0, Dr Abdelilah Meddich1, Dr C. M. Muralidharan2, Dr Summar Abbas Naqvi3, Dr Taseer Abbas Naqvi4, Dr Concepción Obón5, Dr Redouane Ouhaddou6, Dr Ozcan Ozturk7, Dr Ouissame Raho8, Dr Diego Rivera9, Dr Ricardo Salomón-Torres0, Dr Kapil Mohan Sharma1, Mostafa I. Waly2, Dr Muhammad Waseem3, Dr Glenn C. Wright4 ...
    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a tree belonging to the palm family (Arecaceae) and is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small-farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, ... Read more

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  • Agricultural Sustainability

    Progress and Prospects in Crop Research

    Edited by Gurbir Bhullar, Navreet K. Bhullar ...
    Collaboratively written by top international experts and established scientists in various fields of agricultural research, this book focuses on the state of food production and sustainability; the problems with degradation of valuable sources of land, water, and air and their effects on food crops; the increasing demand of food resources; and the challenges of food security worldwide. The book ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Food Safety in a Circular Economy

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    While circular economy initiatives offer considerable promise in improving sustainability and increasing performance, these benefits are juxtaposed by the increasing evidence that contaminants, physical, microbiological or chemical, can get introduced, persist and potentially lead to unsafe food. Therefore, protecting food safety is key for the success of transitioning our current linear agrifood ... Read more

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