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  • Tropical Root and Tuber Crops

    Cassava, sweet potato, yams and aroids

    de Vincent Lebot ...
    Series series Crop Production Science in Horticulture
    Root and tuber crops are important to agriculture, food security and income for 2.2 billion people in developing countries. These species produce large quantities of dietary energy and have stable yields under difficult environmental conditions. This second edition of Tropical Root and Tuber Crops is an authoritative treatment of four important root and tuber crops: cassava. sweet potato, yams, ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Gardens of Oceania

    Series series Guides illustrés
    Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu, gardens are the evidence of an ancestral rural tradition in which food plants are at one and the same time an indispensable resource, the symbols of a community and the objects of baiter or trade. The ni-Vanuatu devote themselves with true passion to their gardens, within which they collect, select and diversify a rich botanical heritage.Perusing this abundantly ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Jardins d'Océanie

    Series series Guides illustrés
    En Océanie, et tout particulièrement au Vanuatu, les jardins sont les témoins d'une tradition rurale ancestrale où la plante alimentaire est à la fois une ressource indispensable, le symbole d'une communauté et un objet d'échange. Les Vanuatais vouent une véritable passion à leurs jardins dans lesquels ils réunissent, sélectionnent et diversifient un riche patrimoine végétal. À travers cet ouvrage ... Leer más

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  • Kava: The Pacific Elixir

    The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry

    • The most comprehensive book ever written on nature's most effective stress-relieving plant.• First paperback edition of the classic comprehensive text originally published by Yale University Press.This complete guide to kava summarizes the literature and research on a plant that is now considered comparable or superior to anti-stress prescription drugs, and describes its use in the religious, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Gardens of Oceania

    This lavishly illustrated guide covers the cultivated and wild edible plant species of Vanuatu. Over 200 species grown for their tubers or roots, woody species and creepers that provide fruits or seeds, and herbaceous species, from sugarcane to mint, are quoted or described in short sheets of essential facts. The guide was designed to familiarize those in the West with the food plants used in ... Leer más

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