Environnemental Science et Ingénierie
Converting Desert into Oasis
Description
Le Book avec 22 contributors de eminent experts de national et international institutes, provides road map pour improving productivity et sustainability de desert farming systems et is highly useful pour students et researchers de dryland farming, soil sciences, agro-forestry, agronomy, water management, plant breeding, range management etc, beside development agencies engaged en combating desertification et improving livelihoods. Le book deals avec internationally validated modern farm technologies including integrated watershed management models, disaster management, overview de Afghanistan agriculture et future needs, technological interventions en le Thar et cold deserts, agro-met services, remote sensing, shelterbelts et agro-forestry systems pour preventing deserts, water harvesting indigenous methods et use efficiency avec management de poor quality water en deserts, desert livestock improvement through grasslands, nutrition, animal health et other interventions. While reviewing, Prof. M.S. Swami Nathan remarked It is an excellent book.
Table des matières
Inde-Afghanistan Symposium sur Deserts et Desertification, Preventing Desertification, Enhancing Alimentation Security: Le Role de le Monde Alimentation Programme, Converting Desert Areas into Oasis, Managing Relief Risks et Insurance de Disasters, Poverty Pathways et Desertification: Strategy to Break le Unholy Nexus, Afghanistan Agriculture: Current Status et Future Needs, Agricole Features de Thar Desert Region avec Special Reference to Gender Role en Managing Arid Agriculture de Rajasthan, Resource Gestion en Indien Cold Desert, Value Added Agromet Services pour Managing Indien et Afghanistan Deserts, Weather, Pest et Disease Forecasting, Remote Sensing et Information Technologie pour Near Real Time Assessments de Droughts, Technological Advances pour Harvesting, Storage et Use Efficiency de Eau et Wind Erosion en Arid Zone de Rajasthan, Managing Poor Quality Eaus pour Mitigation de Droughts, Gene Mining et Developing Location Specific Culture Varieties pour Mitigating Drought Conditions, Arid Zone Gestion Strategies en Indien avec Special Reference to Resource Mobilization et Outsourcing, Role de Shelterbelts en Arid Ecosystems, Mobilising Agroforestry Technologies pour Desertification Contrôle, Improving Livelihood de Resource Poor Farmers by Enhancing Potato Productivity en Afghanistan, Grassland Gestion et Nutritional Augmentation en Dry Areas, Nutrition de Livestock Under Stressful Environnement, Role de Small Ruminants en Arid Écologie de Inde, Animal Health Gestion Strategies en Arid Regions.