Analysis of the Coffee Rust (hemileia Vastatrix) Outbreak 2012 in Central America
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Author : Stuart McCook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0821446843
The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.
Author : Bruno Rapidel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136537619
Agricultural systems are no longer evaluated solely on the basis of the food they provide, but also on their capacity to limit impacts on the environment, such as soil conservation, water quality and biodiversity conservation, as well as their contribution to mitigating and adapting to climate change. In order to cope with these multiple service functions, they must internalize the costs and benefits of their environmental impact. Payments for ecosystem services are hoped to encourage and promote sustainable practices via financial incentives. The authors show that while the principle is straightforward, the practice is much more complicated. Whereas scenic beauty and protection of water sources provide benefits to the local population, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation can be considered international public goods, rendering potential payment schemes more complex. Few examples exist where national or international bodies have been able to set up viable mechanisms that compensate agricultural systems for the environmental services they provide. However this book provides several examples of successful programs, and aims to transfer them to other regions of the world. The authors show that a product can be sold if it is clearly quantified, there exists a means to determine the service's values, and there is a willing buyer. The first two sections of the book present methodological issues related to the quantification and marketing of ecosystem services from agriculture, including agroforestry. The third and final section presents case studies of practical payments for ecosystem services and experiences in Central and South America, and draws some lessons learnt for effective and sustainable development of ecosystem services compensation mechanisms.
Author : J. M. Waller
Publisher : CABI
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1845932099
Price collapse and oversupply have made coffee a high-profile crop in recent years: never has efficient production and crop protection been more important for reducing costs and increasing quality. Packed with illustrations, this book covers the origins, botany, agroecology and worldwide production statistics of coffee, and the insect pests, plant pathogens, nematodes and nutrient deficiencies that afflict it. With emphasis on integrated crop management, this book reviews control measures suitable for any coffee pest or disease and will enable agriculturists to design and implement sustainable pest management systems.
Author : Trench, T.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
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Who makes land use decisions, how are decisions made, and who influences whom, how and why? This working paper is part of a series based on research studying multilevel decision-making institutions and processes. The series is aimed at providing insight i
Author : W. G. Clarence-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521521726
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Author : B. Venkateswarlu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400722206
Crops experience an assortment of environmental stresses which include abiotic viz., drought, water logging, salinity, extremes of temperature, high variability in radiation, subtle but perceptible changes in atmospheric gases and biotic viz., insects, birds, other pests, weeds, pathogens (viruses and other microbes). The ability to tolerate or adapt and overwinter by effectively countering these stresses is a very multifaceted phenomenon. In addition, the inability to do so which renders the crops susceptible is again the result of various exogenous and endogenous interactions in the ecosystem. Both biotic and abiotic stresses occur at various stages of plant development and frequently more than one stress concurrently affects the crop. Stresses result in both universal and definite effects on plant growth and development. One of the imposing tasks for the crop researchers globally is to distinguish and to diminish effects of these stress factors on the performance of crop plants, especially with respect to yield and quality of harvested products. This is of special significance in view of the impending climate change, with complex consequences for economically profitable and ecologically and environmentally sound global agriculture. The challenge at the hands of the crop scientist in such a scenario is to promote a competitive and multifunctional agriculture, leading to the production of highly nourishing, healthy and secure food and animal feed as well as raw materials for a wide variety of industrial applications. In order to successfully meet this challenge researchers have to understand the various aspects of these stresses in view of the current development from molecules to ecosystems. The book will focus on broad research areas in relation to these stresses which are in the forefront in contemporary crop stress research.
Author : United Nations Publications
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Coffee
ISBN : 9789211036831
The Coffee Guide is the world's most extensive, hands-on, and neutral source of information on the international coffee trade.
Author : Nicholas P. Money
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fungi
ISBN : 0199688788
The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Some fungi kill trees and ravage crops, and pathogenic fungi can infect animals and even humans. But fungi also play crucial roles in ecosystems. They act as agents of wood decay in forests, and symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi are vital to many plants. In this Very Short Introduction Nicholas P. Money explains the essential functions performed by fungi, the importance of studying them to contain fungal diseases, and how fungi are being used in agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine. -- from cover flap.
Author : C. Lee Campbell
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1990-01-16
Category : Medical
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Development of plant disease epidemiology, monotoring epidemics: host, environment, pathogen and disease. Modeling and data analysis. Temporal analysis of epidemics: description and comparison of disease progress curves and advaced topics. Spatial aspects of plant disease epidemics: dispersla gradients and long-range transport and analysis of spatial pattern-simulation models of plant diseases, designings experiments and smapling, crop loss assessment and modeling and forecasting plant disease.