Managing irrigation for soil health in arid and semi-arid regions

Managing irrigation for soil health in arid and semi-arid regionsIrrigated arid and semi arid regions of the world account for more than 40% of the global crop production. Managing soil health while simultaneously increasing water use efficiency in these areas is challenging, but critical to future global food security. This chapter describes production practices such as no tillage and surface residue preservation that maximize both water infiltration into soil and soil water retention, reduce runoff and

A nutrient management strategy which relies on the total replacement of all nutrients in the biomass is not sustainable from an economic or environmental point of view

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Poole's own views and those of the people he visited provide a fascinating account of the revolutionary era that helps readers a century later understand the complexity of this fascinating time

The reception of the idea of Utopia in early modern Europe has been studied extensively before: what has been lacking is a composite picture of how Utopia moved by means of translation from culture to culture and of the ways in which particular versions offered themselves to their readers

This chapter describes the origins of SSI

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sweet pepper or cucumber crops have specific growth requirements linked to their physiology and their architecture (plant bearing fruits)

Honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world

the representation of feed quality in crop model outputs and the management of time scales and carry-over effects is dealt with

each chapter presents current issues arising in the context of art