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Soil fertility decline in the tropics with case studies on plantations / by Hartemink, Alfred E., 1964-

Subjects: “…Soil fertility Tropics.…”
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Soil Nitrogen Uses and Environmental Impacts /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 --Benefits and Unintended Consequences of Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizers.1-- B.A. Stewart --…”
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Agricultural Drones : a Peaceful Pursuit / by Krishna, K. R.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 3 Drones in Soil Fertility Management /…”
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Technological interventions in the management of irrigated agriculture /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 10 Practices in Nitrogen Fertilization of Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.): Effects on the Distribution of Protein Sub-Fractions, Amino Acids, and Starch Characteristics /…”
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Evolution of agriculture the origin of our food crops /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The evolution of agriculture -- The Neolithic transition -- The fertile crescent -- The spread of the new lifestyle -- Domestication -- The domestication and diversity of barley -- The evolution of weeds and rye as a secondary domesticate.…”
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Unmanned aerial vehicle systems in crop production : a compendium / by Krishna, K. R. (Kowligi R.)

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Contested agronomy : agricultural research in a changing world /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson-Beebout -- Water in African agronomy / Philip Woodhouse -- Understanding agricultural intensification on a forest frontier in Madagascar: elements for a Malthusian/Boserupian synthesis / Jacques Pollini -- Alternative configurations of agronomic experimentation / Harro Maat and Dominic Glover -- "This field is our church": the social and agronomic challenges of knowledge generation in a participatory soil fertility management project / Joshua Ramisch -- Contesting agronomy through dissent: experiences from India / C. …”

African smallholders food crops, markets and policy /

Table of Contents: “…Karugia and Willis Oluoch-Kosura -- The fertilizer support programme and the millennium development challenge in Zambia: is government a problem solution? …”
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Agricultural investment and productivity : building sustainability in East Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Bluffstone and Gunnar Köhlin -- Determinants of sustainable land management investments -- Stimulating smallholder investments in sustainable land management : overcoming market, policy, and institutional challenges / Bekele Shiferaw and Julius Okello -- The role of social capital in sustainable development : an analysis of soil conservation in rural Kenya / Wilfred Nyangena -- Tenure security and incentives for sustainable land management : a case study from Kenya / Jane Kabubo-Mariara and Vincent Linderhof -- The effect of risk on investments -- Risk preferences and technology adoption : case studies from Ethiopian highlands / Mahmud Yesuf and Hailemariam Teklewold -- Fertilizer use by smallholder households in northern Ethiopia : does risk aversion matter? …”

Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident The First Three Years /

Table of Contents: “…1 An Overview of Our Research -- 2 Monitoring Inspection for Radioactive Substances in Agricultural, Livestock, Forest, and Fishery Products in Fukushima Prefecture -- 3 Rice Inspections in Fukushima Prefecture -- 4 Cesium accumulation in paddy field rice grown in Fukushima from 2011 to 2013: cultivars and fertilization -- 5 Physiological verification of the effect of potassium supply on the reduction of radiocesium content in rice grain -- 6 Consecutive Field Trials of Rice Cultivation in Partially Decontaminated Paddy Fields to Reduce Radiocesium Absorption in the Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture -- 7 Effects of “clean feeding” management on livestock products contaminated with radioactive cesium due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident -- 8 Adverse effects of radiocesium on the promotion of sustainable circular agriculture including livestock due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident -- 9 Wild boars in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident: Distribution of radiocesium -- 10 Contamination of Wild Animals: Microhabitat Heterogeneity and Ecological Factors of Radioactive Cesium Exposure in Fukushima -- 11 Translocation of radiocesium in fruit trees -- 12 The effects of radioactive contamination on the forestry industry and commercial mushroom-log production in Fukushima, Japan -- 13 Radiocesium in timber of Japanese cedar, and Japanese red pine, in the forests of Minamisoma, Fukushima -- 14 Ecosystem monitoring of radiocesium redistribution dynamics in a forested catchment in Fukushima after the nuclear power plant accident in March 2011 -- 15 Reduction of air radiation dose by ponding paddy fields -- 16 Collaboration Structure for the Resurrection of Iitate Village, Fukushima: A Case Study of a Nonprofitable Organization -- 17 Impacts of the nuclear power plant accident and the start of trial operations in Fukushima fisheries -- 18 Consumer evaluation of foods from the disaster affected area: Change in 3 years -- 19 Imaging Techniques for Radiocesium in Soil and Plants.…”
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Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages /

Table of Contents: “…Part I The Road to Reconstruction from the Tsunami and Radioactive Contamination: Two and a Half Years On -- 1 Dealing with Disasters of Unprecedented Magnitude: The Local Government’s Tribulations and the Road to Reconstruction (Hidekiyo Tachiya) -- 2 Tokyo University of Agriculture East Japan Assistance Project Assisting with Reconstruction: Guiding Principles, Planning, and Propagation of Benefits (Toshiyuki Monma) -- 3 Characteristics of the Agricultural and Forestry Industries in the Soma Area and Damage Sustained as a Result of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Takahiro Yamada, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- Part II Reconstruction from Tsunami Damage -- 4 Reconstruction Support for the Farmland Struck by Tsunami (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) -- 5 Tsunami Damage to Farming Operations and the New Generation of Farmers and Farm Management (Yukio Shibuya, Takahiro Yamada, Nyamkhuu Batdelger, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Gentaro Suzumura, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- 6 Presenting a Model for Revival of Rural Communities in Japan’s Disaster Zones (Shigeyuki Miyabayashi, Yasushi Takeuchi, Hiromu Okazawa, Tomonori Fujikawa, and Yutaka Sasaki) -- 7 Contributing to Restoration of Tidal Flats in Miyagi Prefecture’s Moune Bay Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Susumu Chiba, Takeshi Sonoda, Makoto Hatakeyama, and Katsuhide Yokoyama) -- Part III Reconstruction from Radioactive Contamination -- 8 Initiatives by the Soil Fertilization Team to Develop Agricultural Technologies for Paddy Fields with Radioactive Contamination (Itsuo Goto and Kaisei Inagaki) -- 9 The Potential for Producing Rice for Feed and Whole Crop Rice Silage in Radiation-Contaminated Areas (Seiji Nobuoka) -- 10 Developing and Trialing a System to Monitor Radionuclide in Individual Plots of Farmland to Help Reconstruction Farming in Contaminated Areas (Toshiyuki Monma, Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Youichi Kawano, Dambii Byambasuren, Yuta Ono, and Quar Evine) -- 11 New Decontamination Methods for Parks and Other Areas in Which Radionuclide Have Accumulated (Mitsuo Kondo and Chizuko Mizuniwa) -- 12 Forest Restoration (Takahisa Hayashi) -- 13 Nuclear Radiation Levels in the Forest at Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture (Iwao Uehara, Tomoko Seyama, Fumio Eguchi, Ryuichi Tachibana, Yukito Nakamura, and Hiroya Obayashi ) -- 14 Radioactive Contamination of Ostriches in a Potentially Permanent Evacuation Zone (Hiroshi Ogawa, Hidehiko Uchiyama, Koji Masuda, Takeshi Sasaki, Tadao Watanabe, Toshiaki Tomizawa, and Schu Kawashima) -- 15 The Radioactive Contamination in Some Arthropod Species in Fukushima (Tarô Adati and Sota Tanaka) -- 16 A Consumer Survey Approach to Reputation-Based Damage Affecting Agricultural Products and How to Overcome It (Puangkaew Lurhathaiopath, Shizuka Matsumoto, Makoto Hoshi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, and Toshiyuki Monma) -- Part IV Activities and Impressions of Students and Farmers Who Supported the Project -- 17 Staking Recovery Hopes on Soma Revival Rice (Kaisei Inagaki, Tomoko Ninagi, Saburo Sasaki, and Akiko Sato) -- 18 Impression of the Students Participated in the Radioactivity Monitoring System of Farmland (Volodymyr Ganzha, Keiji Kanamori, Hana Fujimoto, and Ryo Itakura) -- 19 Impression of the Forestry managers and students participated in the Radioactivity Damage Investigation of Forests (Eihachi Horiuchi, Kiyoaki Sasaki, Masaaki Itakura, Chisato Yasukawa, and Chihiro Kinoshita).…”
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