Water management for sustainable agriculture HISTORY / Africa / General

Water management for sustainable agriculture HISTORY / Africa / GeneralThere is increasing competition for water resources with declining aquifer reserves and lower rainfall in some areas due to climate change. This volume reviews research into topics such as more sustainable use of groundwater, more efficient irrigation techniques and water management.

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Efforts have been made to secure plant genetic resources ex situ for future use but there are significant issues related to cost effective

This book argues that the writings of twentieth-century poet Robinson Jeffers offer twenty-first-century readers a number of crucial insights concerning such questions and timely advice about how not to be human

It concludes by highlighting how the avocado industry is experimenting with new cultivars and rootstocks bred in university and private breeding projects throughout the world

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This chapter examines equipment designed to operate with field crops

water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking

the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas-the Arctic

gathering a devoted audience that remains loyal to the show more than a decade after it left the airwaves

use the web as an open forum for new writing

The book is illustrated throughout in colour

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