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Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Tropical Agriculture

Author : Alim Isnansetyo

Publisher : Springer

Page : 627 pages

File Size : 39,20 MB

Release : 2017-11-21

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3319603639

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Book Description

The proceeding of tropical agriculture is a proceeding of papers presented at the International Conference on Tropical Agriculture. Sustainability of agriculture production system is an important issue in the world, which includes all aspects of sustainable criteria, such as technical, socio-economic, and ecological aspects. This book covers sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical fisheries, sustainable tropical animal production, sustainable tropical forestry, tropical animal health, and Innovative and Emerging Food Technology and Management. The most common, challenging issues in plant, animal and fisheries production in the tropics are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases. These issues are closely linked to the socio-economic condition of farmers as small-scale farms are dominant in this area. In addition, post-harvest technology is crucial to maintaining the high quality of products after on farm production. This volume provides the recent research and development on tropical agriculture production systems for plant, terrestrial animal and aquatic animal to establish sustainable agriculture production in the tropics.



Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Agriculture

Author : Anggoro Cahyo Sukartiko

Publisher : Springer

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 16,5 MB

Release : 2018-12-04

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 3319975536

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This book covers the sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical animal production and health, sustainable tropical forestry, socio-economic dimension in tropical agriculture and innovative and emerging food technology and management as chapters in this book. The common challenging problems in plant, animal, and fisheries production in the tropic are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases.





Agricultural Value Chain

Author : Gokhan Egilmez

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 31,54 MB

Release : 2018-04-26

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1789230063

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This book covers the agricultural value chain issues that occur in different parts of the world and aims to increase our understanding about the sustainable agricultural value chain paradigm. By reading through these chapters, the readers will witness various interesting, sometimes sad, commonalities among different regions of the world, where smallholder farmers and producers are severely affected by various agricultural policy deficiencies or mistakes and inexistences. The book consists of 14 chapters, which comprehensively cover over 20 agricultural products from more than 15 different regions of the world. Various qualitative and quantitative research methods are presented including surveys, case studies, interviews, price transmission, risk analysis, and multiagent system technology.



Artificial Intelligence & Automation: Technology Changing the World

Author : Dr. Munish Jindal

Publisher : Blue Hill Publications

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 38,90 MB

Release :

Category : Education

ISBN : 9392929455

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Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the world and contributing to the overall economic growth with futuristic approach. Automation and AI are future decoded, with the recent technological progress pushing the frontier of what machines can do and doing till today. This book provides insights that society needs these improvements to provide value to contribute to the growth and make onceunimaginable progress on some of our most difficult societal challenges. AI has made especially large strides in recent years, as machine-learning algorithms have become more sophisticated and made use of huge increases in computing power and of the exponential growth in data available to train them. These technologies are already generating value in various products and services, and companies across sectors use them in an array of processes to personalize product recommendations, to making you pro in sports, to making you commute, as well as assisting you in growing more food, healthy food, providing you holistic living.



Tropical Residual Soils

Author : Geological Society of London. Engineering Group. Working Party

Publisher : Geological Society of London

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 35,75 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9781897799383

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In the tropics, residual soils probably form the largest group with which the engineer has to deal. Being formed in situ, these soils have particular characteristics that distinguish them from material deposited from transported soils.







1st World Conference on Biomass for Energy and Industry

Author : Spyros Kyritsis

Publisher : Earthscan

Page : 1170 pages

File Size : 24,72 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9781902916156

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The 1st World Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy and Industry, held in Sevilla in June 2000, brought together for the first time the traditional European Conference on Biomass for Energy and Industry and the Biomass Conference of the Americas, thus creating the largest and most outstanding event in the worldwide biomass sector. The conference elaborated innovative global strategies, projects and efficient practice rules for energy and the environment at a key stage in the industry's development. New concepts and projects were highlighted to increase the social and political awareness for a change in worldwide resource consumption and to promote economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development for the next millennium. In 2 volumes, the Proceedings include some 470 papers essential to an understanding of current thinking, practice, research and global developments in the biomass sector - a vital reference source for researchers, manufacturers, and policy makers involved or interested in the use of biomass for energy and industry.



Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2021)

Author : João Rafael da Costa Sanches Galvão

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 947 pages

File Size : 26,2 MB

Release : 2021-05-08

Category : Science

ISBN : 3030753158

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This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability – ICoWEFS 2021, a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus, embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, bringing together leading academics, researchers and industrial experts. It contains the work of authors from 33 countries.