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One Billion Hungry

Can We Feed the World?

by Gordon Conway ...

Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Read more

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Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further
... Read more
Food for All in Africa

Sustainable Intensification for African Farmers

by Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, Katrin Glatzel ...

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families.In this boldly optimistic book, Sir Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel describe the key challenges faced by Africa's ... Read more

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Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families.In this boldly optimistic book, Sir Gordon Conway, Ousmane Badiane, and Katrin Glatzel describe the key challenges faced by Africa's
... Read more
Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 2

Practice and Benefits

by Prof Amir Kassam, Dr Angelica Galieni, Dr Theodor Friedrich, Dr Fabio Stagnari, Dr Fernando Teixeira, Prof Z. R. Khan, Dr A. W. Murage, Dr J. O. Pittchar, Dr C. A. O. Midega, Dr Stephane Boulakia0, Dr Florent Tivet1, Dr Olivier Husson2, Dr Lucien Séguy3, Prof João Carlos M. Sá4, Prof Rattan Lal5, Dr Ademir de Oliveira Ferreira6, Dr Clever Briedis7, Dr Thiago Massao Inagaki8, Dr Daniel Potma Gonçalves9, Dr Laila Kassam0, Dr Jucimare Romaniw1, Mr Scott Day2, Dr Ademir Calegari3, Dr Alessandra Santos4, Dr Marcus Cremonesi5, Dr Lilianne Maia6, Dr Wilian Demetrio7, Dr Marie L. C. Bartz8, Dr Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez9, Dr Muhammad Farooq0, Dr Manuel Morena-Garcia1, Dr Rafaela Ordoñez-Fernandez2, Dr Jesus A. Gil-Ribes3, Dr Julio Roman-Vazquez4, Dr Antonio Holgado-Cabrera5, Dr Gordon Conway6, Dr Saidi Mkomwa7, Dr Paula Triviño-Tarradas8, Dr Antonio Miranda-Fuentes9, Dr Francisco Marquez-Garcia0, Dr Ahmad Nawaz1, Dr Rosa M. Carbonell-Bojollo2, Dr Patrick C. Wall3, Dr Christian Thierfelder4, Dr Peter Hobbs5, Dr Jon Hellin6, Dr Bram Govaerts7, Prof Rafael Fuentes Llanillo8, Dr Tiago Santos Telles9, Dr Dimas Soares Junior0, Dr Sara Kaweesa1, Dr Yashpal Singh Saharawat2, Dr Anne-Marie B. Mayer3, Dr Tom Goddard4, Dr Hongwen Li5, Dr Ivo Mello6, Dr Francis Shaxson7, Prof Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado8, Dr Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol9, Dr Claudio Hideo Martins da Costa0, Dr Otávio dos Anjos Leal1, Dr Luan Pierre Pott2, Dr Timothy Reeves3, Prof Michele Pisante4, Professor Kadambot Siddique5, Professor Gottlieb Basch6, Professor Sjoerd W. Duiker7, Professor Emilio J. González-Sánchez8 ...

Series Book 62 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Summarises current research on optimising CA system practices and their ecological, economic and social benefits.Elaborates on how CA systems make efficient use of production inputs such as water, nutrients, energy and addresses challenges in such areas as weed, insect pest and disease management.Reviews the central issues of improvement in yield, profitability and ecosystem services as well as ... Read more

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Summarises current research on optimising CA system practices and their ecological, economic and social benefits.Elaborates on how CA systems make efficient use of production inputs such as water, nutrients, energy and addresses challenges in such areas as weed, insect pest and disease management.Reviews the central issues of improvement in yield, profitability and ecosystem services as well as
... Read more
Unwelcome Harvest

Agriculture and pollution

by Gordon R. Conway, Jules N. Pretty ...

Series series Natural Resource Management Set
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's ... Read more

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Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's
... Read more
Geoheritage and Geotourism

A European Perspective

by Thomas A. Hose, Nemanja Tomic, Slobodon Markovic, Volker Wrede, Djordjije Vasiljevic, Emmanuel Reynard, John Conway, John Gordon, Jonathan Larwood, Kevin Crawford0, Margaret Wood1, Martin Munt2 ...

Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in scientific Earth science inquiry has generated numerous and varied collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, together with their associated archives, artworks and publications, forming a rich cultural geoheritage held in major private and especially royal and aristocratic collections, museums, universities, archives and libraries. ... Read more

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Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in scientific Earth science inquiry has generated numerous and varied collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, together with their associated archives, artworks and publications, forming a rich cultural geoheritage held in major private and especially royal and aristocratic collections, museums, universities, archives and libraries.
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After the Green Revolution

Sustainable Agriculture for Development

by Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier ...

Series series Natural Resource Management Set
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing ... Read more

$65.99 USD

'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing
... Read more
Counterterrorism and Threat Finance Analysis during Wartime

by Benjamin Bahney, Howard J. Shatz, Brian A. Gordon, General David McKiernan, Colonel Clayton O. Sheffield ...

This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance Cells—interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist and insurgent funding. All contributors have deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and detail both the bureaucratic and intellectual challenges in ... Read more

$47.79 USD

This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance Cells—interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist and insurgent funding. All contributors have deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and detail both the bureaucratic and intellectual challenges in
... Read more
Lyon's Claw

A Quint Cord Novel

by Betty Vaughn ...

Series Book 3 - A Quint Cord Novel
Quint and Lila Cord are honeymooning in the South of France when ex-pat, Lyon Owens, has Lila kidnapped. Owens plans to use Lila's internet expertise to hack into and drain the financial accounts of his enemy...a Russian born senator from California...to prevent the man's continuous attempts against his life. Before Lila can fully implement Owens' scheme, a team of the senator's hired killers ... Read more

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Quint and Lila Cord are honeymooning in the South of France when ex-pat, Lyon Owens, has Lila kidnapped. Owens plans to use Lila's internet expertise to hack into and drain the financial accounts of his enemy...a Russian born senator from California...to prevent the man's continuous attempts against his life. Before Lila can fully implement Owens' scheme, a team of the senator's hired killers
... Read more
Atlas of Bone Scintigraphy in the Pathological Paediatric Skeleton

Under the Auspices of the Paediatric Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine

by Isky Gordon, Sibylle Fischer, Klaus Hahn ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
$89.09 USD

Crop Ecology, Cultivation and Uses of Cactus Pear

by FAOoftheUN ...

If people are to survive in these ever harsher conditions, their crops need to withstand drought, high temperatures and poor soils.Cactus crops are gaining increasing interest across the globe, in particular cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica), because of its unique characteristics which provide resilience to the above mentioned harsh conditions. Cactus pear is able to grow on land where no other ... Read more

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If people are to survive in these ever harsher conditions, their crops need to withstand drought, high temperatures and poor soils.Cactus crops are gaining increasing interest across the globe, in particular cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica), because of its unique characteristics which provide resilience to the above mentioned harsh conditions. Cactus pear is able to grow on land where no other
... Read more
Darwin Comes to Town

How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

by Menno Schilthuizen ...

*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Read more

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*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our
... Read more

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Act of War

A Thriller

by Brad Thor ...

Series series The Scot Harvath Series
The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever!After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem—no one knows if she can be trusted.But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever!After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem—no one knows if she can be trusted.But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one
... Read more

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