Tropentag 2012
Author : Eric Tielkes
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 373694215X
Tropentag 2015
Author : Eric Tielkes
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3736980922
Book Description
Large quantities of water are appropriated to produce the feed annually consumed in global livestock production. Rising concerns about increasing competition for water resources and projected increase in demand for livestock products make it imperative to look for strategies to sustainably increase livestock production, with water being one key natural resource to consider. Using a combination of different datasets, a mechanistic livestock model, and a dynamic vegetation model, we estimate the annual consumptive water use (CWU) in the global livestock sector associated with crops and fodder cultivated on cropland and grazed biomass from pastures.
Shade Tree Pruning
Author : A. Robert Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Pruning
ISBN :
Book Description
The World of Organic Agriculture
Author : Minou Yussefi-Menzler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136535233
Book Description
The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management, numbers of farms and specific information about commodities and land use in organic systems. The book also contains information on the global market of the burgeoning organic sector, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and regulations, and insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture by continent from the worlds foremost experts. For this edition, all statistical data and regional review chapters have been thoroughly updated. Completely new chapters on organic agriculture in the Pacific, on the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and on organic aquaculture have been added. Published with IFOAM and FiBL
Tropentag 2016
Author : Bernhard Freyer
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3736983417
Book Description
The theme of 2016 is ”Solidarity in a competing world - fair use of resources”. While on the one hand, one part of the world is profiting from natural resources, the other part of the world is suffering with hunger, malnutrition, human diseases, low income, violence and lately is also challenged through climate change. There is need to rethink and engage in a fair share of all resources between the continents and nations. This includes huge engagement into the management of natural resources to solve the long list of environmental threats expressed through ongoing erosion, loss of soil fertility and loss of biodiversity, and topped by climate change having strong impact on the productivity in agriculture, fishery and forestry, and the use and quality of water and of energy in the South.
Ensuring Global Food Safety
Author : Christine Boisrobert
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080889301
Book Description
Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels, intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations, each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential improvements to the safety of the world's food supply, while also increasing the amount of food available to those in undernourished countries. This book is designed to to provide science-based tools for improving legislation and regulation. - Reduce amount of food destroyed due to difference in regulations between nations - Positively impact the time-to-market of new food products by recognizing benefit of "one rule that applies to all" - Use the comparison of regulations and resulting consequences to make appropriate, fully-informed decisions - Employ proven science to obtain global consensus for regulations - Understand how to harmonize test protocols and analytical methods for accurate measurement and evaluation - Take advantage of using a risk/benefit based approach rather than risk/avoidance to maximize regulatory decisions
Telecoupling
Author : Cecilie Friis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030111059
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
Far-fetched Facts
Author : Richard Rottenburg
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262182645
Book Description
A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa thatfocuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, internationalexperts, and local managers.
Sustainable Parasite Control in Small Ruminants
Author : L. F. Le Jambre
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Animal genetic engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Draws together information from a number of sources to describe the state of research and development on worm control in Asia and the Pacific.
The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
Author : Fausto O. Sarmiento
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9781786430090
Book Description
Offering a cutting-edge, transdisciplinary approach to bio-physical and bio-cultural scales of sustainability, this Companion explores diverse understandings of the what, how, why and where questions of sustainability. It examines the key notion of how to optimize human quality of life whilst minimizing environmental suffering. Integrating a range of disciplines through the social sciences, natural sciences and arts and humanities, this Companion focuses on the human component of sustainability, using a place-based and life-scape approach to environmental questions. Chapters analyze critical topics including: urbanization and city life, environmental conservation and rural landscapes, long-term interactions with natural life, climate change and the importance of mountain regions. Looking beyond an economic analysis of sustainability and well-being, this Companion incorporates cross-cutting social, cultural, judicial and spiritual dimensions of sustainability and regenerative development. With a combination of international case studies and an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the topic, this will be an interesting read for those studying sustainability from a range of disciplinary bases including ecological economists, human ecologists and geographers. It will also be beneficial to urban planners and ecologists interested in how the profoundly impactful evolutionary trend towards the urban environment is impacting human geographies around the world. Contributors include:B. Antaki, J. Balsiger, A. Barreau, S. Boillat, B. Boley, A. Borsdorf, F. Boyer, M. Bush, J.B. Campbell, M. Carré, R. Cheddadi, T.J. Christoffel, B. Debarbieux , M.E. Donoso-Correa, N. Dudley, W. Dunbar, F. Ficetola, L. François, L.M. Frolich, E. Guevara, J.A. González, A. Haller, C.P. Harden, D. Harmon, A.-J. Henrot, S.L. Hitchner, G.A. Holdridge, K. Huang, J.T. Ibarra, K. Ichikawa, E.A. Macdonald, C. Mena, C. Merchant, A. Michaels, C. Monterrubio-Solís, E. Müller, M. Navarro, H. Norberg-Hodge, M. Oliva, S. Padgett-Vasquez, S.E. Pilaar Birch, D. Quiroga, J.K. Reap, L.M. Resler, A. Rhoujjati, R. Rozzi, F.O. Sarmiento, J.W. Schelhas, Y. Shao, C. Stadel, P. Taberlet, K. Taylor, S.J. Walsh, K.R. Young, Z. Zheng, F.M. Zimmermann, S. Zimmermann-Janschitz
