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  • Forests as Fuel

    Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South

    by Sarah Hitchner, John Schelhas, J. Peter Brosius ...
    In the US South, wood-based bioenergy schemes are being promoted and implemented through a powerful vision merging social, environmental, and economic benefits for rural, forest-dependent communities. While this dominant narrative has led to heavy investment in experimental technologies and rural development, many complexities and complications have emerged during implementation. Forests as Fuel ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Biological Diversity

    Balancing Interests Through Adaptive Collaborative Management

    Edited by Louise E. Buck, Charles C. Geisler, John Schelhas, Eva Wollenberg ...
    We live in a world of wide pendulum swings regarding management policies for protected areas, particularly as they affect the involvement of local people in management. Such swings can be polarizing and halt on-the-ground progress. There is a need to find ways to protect biodiversity while creating common ground and building management capacity thr ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes

    Edited by John Schelhas, Russell S. Greenberg ...
    While tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, the clearing is rarely complete and is often not permanent. A considerable amount of tropical forest exists as remnants that have significant value both for the conservation of biological diversity and for meeting the needs of local people.This volume brings together world-renowned scientists and conservationists to address the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison

    by Richard T. Corlett, Richard B. Primack ...
    The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many differences as similarities, as a result of their isolation from each other during the evolution of their ... Read more

    $146.00 USD

  • Tropical Broiler Chicken Management Guide

    by Hauhouot Diambra-Odi ...
    Tropical Broiler Chicken Management Guide is about the basics for raising chicken for meat. Housing and feeding is adapted to the tropics where environmental temperature and humidity present a challenge for the poultry grower. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The International Cocoa Trade

    by Robin Dand ...
    'An overview of the history of cocoa, the factors affecting its production and consumption as well as how the trade is conducted, various risks mitigated, and by whom. …The International Cocoa Trade is a work designed to inform all on the subject of cocoa and an essential guide for those involved in its trade.'Dr J. Vingerhoets, Executive Director, ICCOCocoa is a valuable commodity, and the cocoa ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • When Coffee Speaks

    Stories from and of Latin American Coffeepeople

    by Rachel Northrop ...
    Whatever your sentiments towards or knowledge of coffee, the stories coffee has to tell are surprising, intriguing, and always human. Part travelogue meets anthropological field notes, part industry review meets food sourcing exposé, When Coffee Speaks is a collection of interviews with all kinds of coffeepeople in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Postharvest Biology and Technology of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

    Açai to Citrus

    Edited by Elhadi M. Yahia ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
    While products such as bananas, pineapples, kiwifruit and citrus have long been available to consumers in temperate zones, new fruits such as lychee, longan, carambola, and mangosteen are now also entering the market. Confirmation of the health benefits of tropical and subtropical fruit may also promote consumption further. Tropical and subtropical fruits are particularly vulnerable to postharvest ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Mitigating Land Degradation and Improving Livelihoods

    An Integrated Watershed Approach

    Edited by Feras Ziadat ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    The research presented in this book demonstrates how an integrated ‘systems’ approach to farming in the watershed context increases the effectiveness of a production system and improves people’s livelihoods. It takes an integrated approach, using one watershed in Ethiopia as a ‘laboratory’ or model case study to focus on the interaction and interdependence between land, water, crops, soil, water ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Race to Save the Tropics

    Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future

    Edited by Robert Goodland ...
    Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries. ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Postharvest Biology and Technology of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

    Cocona to Mango

    Edited by Elhadi M. Yahia ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
    While products such as bananas, pineapples, kiwifruit and citrus have long been available to consumers in temperate zones, new fruits such as lychee, longan, carambola, and mangosteen are now also entering the market. Confirmation of the health benefits of tropical and subtropical fruit may also promote consumption further. Tropical and subtropical fruits are particularly vulnerable to postharvest ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Innovation Platforms for Agricultural Development

    Evaluating the mature innovation platforms landscape

    Edited by Iddo Dror, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Marc Schut, Michael Misiko, Shreya Maheshwari ...
    Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and action towards the realization of agricultural development outcomes. This book enhances the body of knowledge of IPs by focusing on mature IPs in agricultural systems research, including the crop and livestock sectors, and innovations in farmer ... Read more

    $65.99 USD