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  • Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry

    Measurement and Payment

    Edited by Jean Francois Le Coq, Bruno Rapidel, John Beer, Fabrice DeClerck ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The agroecological transition of agricultural systems in the Global South

    by François-Xavier Côte, Emmanuelle Poirier-Magona, Sylvain Perret, Philippe Roudier, Bruno Rapidel, Marie-Cécile Thirion ...
    Series series Agricultures et défis du monde
    Food security, jobs, ecological transition of agricultural production models and consumption patterns... Agroecology could be one of the solutions to meet the future challenges of humanity. Part of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it requires a lasting commitment from all of us. Over the last decade, CIRAD and AFD have conducted experiments in agroecological transitions with ... Read more

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  • Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the framework of the project "Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture", and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in ... Read more

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  • Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Synthesis for the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    based largely on information provided in fourteen country reports submitted to FAO as part of the reporting process for the report on The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, And Trade-Offs

    by World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Agroecology: research for the transition of agri-food systems and territories

    by Thierry Caquet, Chantal Gascuel, Michèle Tixier-Boichard ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    Agroecology was chosen by INRAE as one of the interdisciplinary foresight projects aimed at identifying research fronts in response to major societal challenges. Eighty researchers drew up an assessment and proposed research avenues for agroecology. This book summarizes their main conclusions. ... Read more

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  • Water Accounting for Water Governance and Sustainable Development: White Paper

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Interest in water accounting is based on the premise that 'We cannot plan and manage what we do not measure' – a statement that few would disagree with.Society needs more accurate information and answers to the key questions about water supply and demand. More data are needed but simply doing water measurements and assessments is not enough. Water accounting per se is of little use. But as a tool ... Read more

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  • Living territories to transform the world

    by Patrick Caron, Elodie Valette, Tom Wassenaar, Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Vatché Papazian ...
    What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? But also, what are the limits of the territorial approach? How does a territorial ... Read more

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  • Coffee: Terroirs and Qualities

    by Christophe Montagnon ...
    This is a new revised and enhanced version of Cafés : terroirs et qualités published in 2003. It arose form meetings between people who study coffee growing from different angles: the plant itself, a geographical and socio-economic approach; its cultivation and processing, and agronomic and technological approach.Taking concrete examples, it analyses the relation between terroirs and qualities; it ... Read more

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  • Drip Irrigation for Agriculture

    Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Venot, Marcel Kuper, Margreet Zwarteveen ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Edited by Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Edited by A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD