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This second edition provides an update on the considerable amount of evidence on tree-crop interactions which has accumulated during the last two decades which are typical of the humid tropics. In addition three new chapters have been added to describe the new advances in the relationship between climate change adaptation & rural development.

Plants are an important source of lead molecules for drug discovery. This book covers extraction techniques and analytical techniques for phytochemical processing of raw materials. It reviews conventional and green extraction as well as analytical techniques from single technique to hyphenated/coupled techniques.

This book provides up-to-date estimates of adoption outcomes and productivity impacts of crop variety improvement research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Visual Soil Evaluation (VSE) provides land users and environmental authorities with the tools to assess soil quality for crop performance. This book describes the assessment of the various structural conditions of soil especially after quality degradation. Covering a range of land types it assesses yield potential across a range of scales.

This new edition describes the basic scientific principles of water transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, explains the linkage between transpirational water use and dry matter production paying particular attention to the various agronomic strategies for adaptation to climate-driven limitations of water resources.

This book deals with the immediate concerns in the field of natural and alternative products for crop disease control.

This book takes a people-centred look at the companies, public agencies and family farms that are making a difference to food security across Africa. Case studies are arranged by country, and each chapter includes a profile of the agricultural and policy environment that surrounds these enterprises and affects their development.

The book covers the background of agricultural development, early agricultural societies, and the advancement of technology from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the present. It finishes by addressing the implications for the future of agriculture and food supply as grain production moves towards biofuels.

Coffee Wilt Disease has destroyed millions of coffee trees in affected countries across Africa and will be a contributory factor in any attempt at revitalization of the African coffee sector. This book is one of the outputs of the Regional Coffee Wilt Programme, and compiles current knowledge, including information its spread and management.

A comprehensive manual of phytobacteriology. It starts by briefly outlining the history and science of bacteriology and gives an overview of the diversity and versatility of bacteria. It discusses the epidemiology and economic importance of bacterial diseases and strategies for their prevention and control in order to reduce crop losses.

This is an essential reference for describing, measuring and classifying the foliage of flowering plants. The presented system provides long-needed guidelines for characterizing the organization, shape, venation, and surface features of angiosperm leaves.

This comprehensive volume contains over 250 papers and abstracts across nine key themes presented at the symposium by international experts. It explores weed biology and ecology and the economic impacts, effectiveness and practical implications of weed management strategies.

This textbook provides an overview of types of tourism, and common themes studied in courses to allow undergraduate students to become familiar with a wide range of tourism topics at a foundation level, allowing them to make an informed decision about their future studies and career.

This book discusses responsible tourism as a whole, including the politics, policy and planning behind it, and major sub-topics such as poverty reduction, the environment, transport, governance, wildlife tours and heritage.

Providing a broad and expert coverage of the horticultural production of vegetables grown from seed, this third edition includes coverage of the production of genetically modified crops, organic seed production, packaging, and honey bee population, as well as updated references and further reading.

This book addresses the important issues confronting the rangelands and presents new concepts and approaches for the management of rangeland resources. It is relevant to the people who live in or depend on the rangelands, and to the institutions and organisations that support them.

Drawing on the interplay between farming and research, this popular textbook provides an updated account of the key techniques for manipulating reproduction in farm animals. It places due emphasis on techniques developed or improved over the last decade, covering technologies for cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, buffaloes, camelids, horses and poultry.

Tourism has long been associated with improved health, resulting in a boom of spas, yoga and rejuvenation treatments. Medical Tourism looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how medical tourism benefits local health care providers, economies and the tourism industry as a whole.

To survive in today's economies, it is imperative for companies to understand their consumers in terms of how and why they like to use their products. Imagineers use design methods to create meaningful experiences that connect consumers to brands. This book explains the background of the need for experiences and focusses on how to design them.

This book provides an overview of the potential role and challenges of organic agriculture in this global perspective, as seen from different perspectives such as sustainability, food security and fair trade.

Intensely practical and illustrated with real-life examples, this text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses. It includes public, private and third sector roles in preparation for and in response to natural and man-made events.

The book discusses how local people and the environment have engaged each other over time to create contemporary Andean landscapes. It also explores human-environment interaction in relation to biodiversity, soils and water, and equitable development.

It contains chapters on all aspects of dairy sheep nutrition and feeding, such as milk production, feed intake, nutrition and reproduction, nutrition and milk quality, and grazing and stocking rate management.

Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry and has global impacts. Development must be sustainable in order to preserve the environment and culture it exploits. This reference work defines terms associated with considering and preserving the environment, host peoples, communities, cultures, customs, lifestyles and social and economic systems.

This book documents the success of an innovative programme in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. It transformed degraded land into a fertile area where farmers could thrive, bringing in effective cultivation techniques and new crops, with every intervention helping to mitigate climate change and improve farmer resilience to its effects.

This book emphasises the importance of farm-level adaptation in mitigating against the risks of climate change in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. It highlights the key issues that arise in farm-level impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, and discusses the methodological approaches undertaken in Asia and Africa

This book compiles the literature for 23 globally relevant leafy medicinal herbs. Beginning with a general overview and discussion of the importance of these plants, it then handles each herb by chapter.

Plant viruses are formidable foes for cultivated crops in tropical and sub-tropical areas; this book helps readers to understand their versatile interactions with the host and transmission vectors to agricultural production.

This book focusses on the diversity of perspectives, interaction and role of tourism in mountainous areas. It considers the interdisciplinary context of communities, the creation of experiences and the impacts of tourism. With authors from Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America, the development, planning and governance issues are also covered.

This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and transformation, exploring traveller behaviour, how this entwines with experiences and how travel experiences continue on a traveller's return. It uses the notion of transformation to redevelop the temporal and spatial boundaries of travel and look at new methods in the exploration of research.