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  • Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world.Approaching pastoralism as a social-ecological system, this volume synthesizes current knowledge about how pastoralists make a living and organize social life while managing herds in diverse ... Read more

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  • Oasis Agriculture in Pakistan

    Folk Tales of Agro-pastoral Heritage, Transformation and Biodiversity

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book emerged from decades of agro-ecological research in the Karakoram Mountains and the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan conducted in collaboration with local scientists, PhD scholars, and villagers in partly very remote oases that exhibit a historically unusually high diversity of agro-pastoral land use systems. Due to their resilience under isolated harsh environmental conditions, as outlined ... Read more

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    Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world’s attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce, and the global sea-level rise threatens food production in fertile coastal lowlands. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments aims to ... Read more

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  • Pomegranate, The

    Botany, Production and Uses

    by Nahla Abdel-Fattah Awd, Shinsuke Agehara, Hamid Ahmadpourmir, Mehdi Alizadeh, Mahdi Asgari, Sedigheh Asgary, James Ayars, Zohreh Azadeh, Farhad Azarmi-Atajan, Dhinesh Babu, Julián Bartual, Maria Cano-Lamadrid, Ángle A. Carbonell-Barrachina, Salvador Castillo, John M Chater, Ferdinando Cossio, Morteza Djamali, Sadegh Dodman, Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, Giuseppe Ferrara, Nilesh N Gaikwad, María E. García-Pastor, G A Geetha, Angelica Giancaspro, Seyed Hossein Goldansaz, Fabián Guillén, Mallikarjun M. Harsur, Mohammad Hassani, Fatemeh Hoseinzadeh-chahkandak, Lefeng Hou, Soroush Hozeifi, Diego S Intrigliolo, Eghbal Jasemi, Mahtab Keshvari, Zhenyu Jia, Hamid R. Karimi, Mehdi Khayyat, Jiyu Li, Chunyan Liu, Zahra Lorigooini, Mahshid Sedaghat, Ashish Maity, Girigowda Manjunath, Domingo Martínez-Romero, Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza, Andrea Mazzeo, Jorge Medina, Donald J Merhaut, Mohammad H Mirjalili, Jeff Moersfelder, Saeideh Momtaz, Ziyafet Mustafayeva, Diganta Narzary, Marino Palasciano, Lluís Palou, Shilpa Parashuram, Nita B. Patil, Prakash G Patil, María B Pérez-Gag, Ali Mohammad Pourbagher-Shahri, John Preece, Herminia Puerto, Gaihua Qin, Roja Rahimi, Mehdi Rezaei, Muhammaad A Saeedi, Sara Saeidi Ghavi, Steven A. Sargent, Yahya Selahvarzi, María Serrano, Jyotsana Sharma, Rouhollah Shirazi, Zohreh Shirazi, K.S Shivashankara, Zeinab Shokoohi, Tikam S. Rana, Nripendra V Singh, Asiye Soleymani, Federica Spagnoli, Daniel Valero, Gary Vallad, Feryal Varasteh, Dong Wang, Katia V Xavier, Nima Yazdanbakhsh, Cenap Yilmaz, Pedro J. Zapata, Abdolkarim Zarei ...
    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is one of the oldest known edible fruits and is associated with the ancient civilizations of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive book covering the botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the pomegranate. The cultivation of this fruit for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes has expanded more than tenfold ... Read more

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    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a tree belonging to the palm family (Arecaceae) and is cultivated for its sweet edible fruits. Over the past century, it has become a major commercial fruit crop and a key component of agricultural production in the world's subtropical arid and semiarid regions. A crop suited both to the low-input small-farmer and the modern high-input commercial plantation, ... Read more

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  • Towards Sustainable Natural Resources

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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    The domestication of animals and plants and the origin of farming leading to human and animal migrations out of India to the rest of Asia

    They migrated not only with the language they spoke and their DNAs but also with their cows, bulls and buffaloes. With them went their dogs, chicken and goats. They carried with them the seeds of barley and rice and wheat. And the mice and shrews followed them. They spread the pottery and the figurines, the art and culture of India to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Israel and further west ... Read more

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    Volume 2: Prospects and Challenges in South and Middle Asia

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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  • The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization

    The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 – 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the largest and most ecologically, culturally, socially, and economically complex among contemporary civilisations. In this study, Jennifer Bates offers ... Read more

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  • Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities. This approach applies technological, policy and economic measures to achieve sustainable agricultural growth in the sectors of grain, fruit, vegetable, fiber, feed, livestock, ... Read more

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  • Groundwater in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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