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Cassava

Author : R. J. Hillocks

Publisher : CABI

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 47,55 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9780851998831

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Book Description

Cassava is a major tropical tuber crop found throughout the tropics (India, Oceania, Africa and Latin America). Hitherto, there has been no single text covering all aspects of cassava biology, production and utilization. This book fills that gap, representing the first comprehensive research level overview of this main staple crop. Chapters are written by leading experts in this field from all continents. The book is suitable for those working and researching in cassava, in both developed and developing countries, as well as advanced students.



Horticultural Reviews, Volume 30

Author : Jules Janick

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 546 pages

File Size : 36,21 MB

Release : 2010-04-06

Category : Science

ISBN : 0470650826

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Book Description

Horticulture Reviews is an open-ended, serial continuation series of review articles on research in commercial horticulture crops. This detailed analysis bridges the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of plant scientists.



International Research on Natural Resource Management

Author : Hermann Waibel

Publisher : CABI

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 46,73 MB

Release : 2007-11-08

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1845932838

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Book Description

This book is addressed to scientists, researchers, development specialists and policy makers who deal with natural resources and agriculture in the developing countries. It aims to (1) provide evidence of the impact of natural resource management research (NRMR) in the CGIAR; (2) establish a methodological foundation for impact assessments of NRMR; and (3) draw up a set of lessons for future impact assessment studies. The book consists of three main parts. Part I (chapters 1-3) provides the definitional, historical, and theoretical background for NRMR impact assessment in the CGIAR. Part II (chapters 4-11) presents the methods and results of seven case studies on the impact of NRMR projects carried out in the CGIAR. Two summary chapters (12 and13) are presented in part III. The book has a subject index.





Save and Grow: Cassava

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 30,37 MB

Release : 2018-06-21

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 9251076413

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Book Description

This practical guide applies FAO's ecosystem-based model of agriculture, which aims at improving productivity while conserving natural resources, to cassava. The guide shows how "Save and Grow" can help cassava growers avoid the risks of intensification, while realizing the crop's potential for producing higher yields, alleviating hunger and rural poverty, and contributing to national economic development.



Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System

Author : Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research

Publisher : IITA

Page : 120 pages

File Size : 24,24 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Root crops

ISBN : 9789290602033

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Book Description

In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.



Systems and Farmer Participatory Research

Author : Sam Fujisaka

Publisher : CIAT

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 26,65 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Agricultural systems

ISBN : 9586940098

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Book Description

Toward a new institutional model of farmer participation in research on natural resource management and germplasm improvement; Developing a natural resource management technology for a specific agroenvironment: Mucuna-maize rotation on the hillsides of northern honduras; Land use systems and dynamics in Pucallpa, Peru; Strategic systems research for the Latin American Savannas; Developing improved pasture systems for forest margins; Adapting participatory research methods for developing integrated crop management for cassava-based systems Northeast Brazil; Soil conservation strategies that take into account farmer perspectives; Developing sustainable cassava production systems with farmers in Asia; Developing forage tecnologies with smallholders in East Kalimantan, Indonesia; Farmer's independent experimentation with green manure and/or cover crops: A component of participatory research for improving Ugandan Farming Systems; Designing sustainable, commercial, farmer seed production systems in Africa: Case studies From Uganda; Institucional Innovation as an entry for system-level technological change; Participatory sysems research toward the future.