Agriculture Monitoring Books and Publications

Fertilization and Irrigation - Theory and Best Practices

The book covers the essentials of plant nutrition and irrigation management. Throughout the 232 pages of the book, the author, Guy Sela, shares his knowledge on the most important aspects of crop nutrition and irrigation, including: Plant nutrients, fertilizer management practices, interpretation of soil analysis, irrigation water quality, fertigation, irrigation scheduling and more... ...

By Cropaia

Microirrigation Management and Maintenance 2nd Edition

This book is meant to serve as a user-friendly manual for drip/microirrigation management and maintenance. It will walk you step-by-step through the proper management and proactive maintenance procedures necessary for successful drip/ microirrigation practice. Negligence of system maintenance compromises the advantages of ...

By Agro Industrial Management

Ultimate Health Issue

The Ultimate Health Issue with guest editor Gideon Forman (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) explores environmental issues with significant health impacts – toxics, pesticides, local food, resource extraction – that are poised to be key issues in this election year. The issue also captures the momentum of increasing efforts – and successes ...

By Alternatives Journal

Management, Performance, and Applications of Micro Irrigation Systems

Management, Performance, and Applications of Micro Irrigation Systems, the fourth volume in the Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation series, emphasizes sustainable and meaningful methods of irrigation to counter rampant water scarcity. In many parts of the world, this scarcity significantly affects crop yield, crop quality, and, consequently, human quality of life. This important ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation

This new book,Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Evapotranspiration: Principles and Applications for Water Management

This book covers topics on the basic models, assessments, and techniques to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) for practical applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban science. This simple and thorough guide provides the information and techniques necessary to develop, manage, interpret, and apply evapotranspiration ET data to practical applications. The simplicity of the contents assists ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Eddy Covariance Method for Scientific, Industrial, Agricultural and Regulatory Applications

“Eddy Covariance Method for Scientific, Industrial, Agricultural and Regulatory Applications: A Field Book on Measuring Ecosystem Gas Exchange and Areal Emission Rates”, authored by LI-COR Principal Scientist George Burba, was created to familiarize readers with the general theoretical principles, requirements, applications, and planning and processing steps of the eddy covariance method. The ...

By LI-COR

Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation

This important book—the only complete, one-stop manual on microirrigation worldwide--offers knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The simplicity of the contents facilitates a technician to develop an effective micro irrigation system. Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation includes the basic considerations relating to ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Concentration Dynamics of Fecal Indicators in Hawaiian Coastal and Inland Sand, Soil, and Water during Rainfall Events

Available as eBook only The contamination of recreational waters by waterborne pathogens poses a health threat to beach users. Recently, the importance of beach sand to the biological quality of beach water has been realized and verified. This study examined how urban rainfall runoff from a tributary stream affects the concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (FIBs) in beach sand at a marine ...

By IWA Publishing

Jatropha Distance learning Package

We have just concluded our 5-day Global Jatropha Hi-tech Integrated Nonfood Biodiesel Farming & Technology Training Programme from December 13-17, 2010 successfully. The JDLP shall include 1. The virtual Class Room: Interactive DVD's providing technical and practical sessions of various jatropha segments i.e. the complete a b c... of the jatropha including biodiesel making. It all includes ...

By Advanced Biofuel Center

State of Food and Agriculture 2009: Livestock in the balance

The livestock sector is transforming rapidly in response to shifts in the global economy and changing societal expectations. Society expects the livestock sector to provide safe and plentiful food and fibre for growing urban populations, livelihoods for more than a billion poor producers and traders as well as global public goods related to food security, environmental sustainability and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Breeding strategies for sustainable management of animal genetic resources

FAO Animal Production and Health Guidelines # 3Genetic improvement is an essential component of the management of animal genetic resources and can make important contributions to food security and rural development. Yet, the majority of developing countries have not been successful in sustaining breed development programmes. The objective of these guidelines is to help countries plan and develop ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil

This book summarizes current knowledge on aquatic and terrestrial environmental quality standards and places it in a wider socioeconomic and regulatory context. It explains how to derive environmental standards that are defensible from a scientific and socioeconomic perspective. Using multidisciplinary techniques that can be applied to water, sediments, and soils, the text demonstrates how to ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Environmental impact assessment and monitoring in aquaculture. Requirements, practices, effectiveness and improvements (includes a CD-ROM)

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers # 527This report includes four regional reviews on Environmental impact assessment (EIA) and monitoring in aquaculture in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America; a special study on EIA as applied to salmon aquaculture; and a global review and synthesis report which draw on the findings of the review papers, covering relevant ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Report of the Technical Workshop on the Status, Limitations and Opportunities for Improving the Monitoring of Shark Fisheries and Trade. Rome, 3-6 Nov

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture ReportsThe Technical Workshop considered global and country specific information on shark fisheries and trade to identify limitations and strategies for improving their monitoring. Reports from a selected number of main shark fishing and trading nations described the status of shark fisheries and the efforts towards the development of a National Plan of Action for ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Report of the third session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission - Mahe, Seychelles, 17-20 December 2007 - Rapport de la troisième sess

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture ReportsThe Commission noted the work undertaken since the second session, considered the report of the Scientific Committee, and agreed that the second Working Party on Fisheries Data and Statistics should address the harmonization of fishery frame surveys. - La Commission, après avoir pris note du travail accompli depuis la deuxième session, a examiné le rapport du ...

By Earthprint Ltd

South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission. Report of the third session of the Scientific Committee. Maputo, Mozambique, 16-19 September 2008 - Rapp

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture ReportsThe Scientific Committee examined the status of fisheries resources in its area of competence; considered the report of the second Working Party on Fisheries Data and Statistics; discussed a recent fishery assessment from Mauritius; discussed management and research actions in Mozambique (lobster), Seychelles (sharks), South Africa (line fishery) and Tanzania ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Report of the Planning Workshop for the Joint Frame Survey for Lake Kariba, Siavonga, Zambia, 11-12 October 2007

The Workshop received presentations of the Frame Survey methods used in Zimbabwe and Zambia which included data analysis, fish taxonomy, socio-economics and fish diseases. A number of areas of concern regarding harmonization of methodology between the two countries were identified and the Workshop made recommendations on improving the Frame Survey in Lake ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Pesticide residues in food 2009. Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on pesticide residues. Report 2009

FAO Plant Production and Protection PapersThe annual Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 25 September 2009. The Meeting was held in pursuance of recommendations made by previous Meetings and accepted by the governing bodies of FAO and WHO that ...

By Earthprint Ltd

FAO Yearbook. Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2007

The most updated data on capture production, aquaculture production and commodities in one volume. The complete yearbook package for each of these categories – all the key information and statistical tables – are now contained on one CD-ROM, inserted in a booklet including general notes, concepts and classifications, summary tables as well as a pull-out map of FAO major fishing areas. From the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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