This book deals with the role of plants in combating desertification. Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred millions. This work provides the reader with the experience of scientists from 30 countries and international institutions around the globe, working in cold and warm dry regions to bring plant-based solutions to one of the most severe problems of our times. The measures required to halt or reverse the process of desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional, sociological/anthropological, and technical.
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Over the last century world agriculture has undergone a major transition from pre-dominantly precarious subsistence agriculture to a highly capitalised farm industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aphylla var erectus, black wattle trees, nere tree, nere seeds, specialised agriculture, decorative branches, dearth period, indigenous fruit trees, fermented seeds, wandering dunes, fruit receptacle, sand dune fixation, sand stabilization, superior phenotypes, combating desertification, root collar diameter, desert truffles, multipurpose tree species, wattle bark, root compartment, agroforestry technologies, seed retention, coppice shoots, sand dune stabilization, tannin extract Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, Non-Wood Forest Products, West Bank, Van Damme, World Bank, Latin America, Uses Remarks, West Africa, Ministry of Agriculture, Middle East, Bet Dagan, Malawi Government, Inner Mongolia, Lower Benin, Niger Republic, Yikezhao Prefecture, Allan Savory, Australian Tree Seed Centre, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Central Anatolia, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, Global Agricultural Situation, Private Bag New!
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Over the last century world agriculture has undergone a major transition from pre-dominantly precarious subsistence agriculture to a highly capitalised farm industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aphylla var erectus, black wattle trees, nere tree, nere seeds, specialised agriculture, decorative branches, dearth period, indigenous fruit trees, fermented seeds, wandering dunes, fruit receptacle, sand dune fixation, sand stabilization, superior phenotypes, combating desertification, root collar diameter, desert truffles, multipurpose tree species, wattle bark, root compartment, agroforestry technologies, seed retention, coppice shoots, sand dune stabilization, tannin extract Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, Non-Wood Forest Products, West Bank, Van Damme, World Bank, Latin America, Uses Remarks, West Africa, Ministry of Agriculture, Middle East, Bet Dagan, Malawi Government, Inner Mongolia, Lower Benin, Niger Republic, Yikezhao Prefecture, Allan Savory, Australian Tree Seed Centre, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Central Anatolia, Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, Global Agricultural Situation, Private Bag New!
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- Animal Reproduction: Invited Papers (Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research, Vol. 3) by H.W. Hawk on page 191, page 196, and page 446
- Plants for Arid Lands by G.E. Wickens on page 110, and page 225
- World Atlas of Desertification by Nick Middleton on page 110
- Middle East (Handbooks to the Modern World) by Michael Adams on page 16
- Human Nutrition in Tropical Africa (FAO) by M. Latham on page 63
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