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... of Agroforestry Trees Programme of ICRAF, which is concerned with diversifying and intensifying land-use systems through the domestication of agroforestry trees. Contact: Josina Kimotho, ICRAF (see ... of the problems which they are facing, including poverty, food security, deforestation and land degradation. Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Mwamunga, Distribution Officer, ICRAF (see page 6 of this Handbook); ...
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Review of Plant Pathology
... -5162 Lancet (British edition) ISSN: 0140-6736 Lancet Infectious Diseases ISSN: 1473-3099 Land Contamination & Reclamation ISSN: 0967-0513 Land Degradation & Development ISSN: 1085-3278 Landbauforschung Volkenrode ISSN: 0458-6859 Landbauforschung Volkenrode, Sonderheft ...
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Crop Physiology Abstracts
... inclusion Lakarstwo w Polsce (Grassland Science in Poland) ISSN: 1506-5162 Land Contamination & Reclamation ISSN: 0967-0513 Land Degradation & Development ISSN: 1085-3278 Land Management Handbook - Ministry of Forests, British Columbia ISSN: 0229-1622 ...
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Dr Stephen Ellis
... areas: pedology of cold and temperate environments with particular reference to Holocene environmental change; land degradation and management; Late Quaternary environmental change in eastern England. To date this work has ... Association, 1-9. Ellis, S., Van de Noort, R. and Middleton, R. (2000). Environmental degradation and preservation: the case of the Humber wetlands. Geography 85, 178-81. Rees, J ...
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University of Hull, Department of Geography
... in the area surrounding Chembe include those of overfishing, deforestation, water quality, woodland resource use, land degradation and agroforestry, allowing a wide range of both physical and human geography projects to be ...
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Seabuckthorn in China
... to control land degradation in China. Seabuckthorn is one of the species successfully used on a large scale, particularly in northern China, to control desertification, to conserve land and ... on the land for farming and reclaim land by destroying the remaining forest. As land productivity is low, more land is being reclaimed. This vicious cycle leads to progressive land degradation. After ...
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Seabuckthorn and environment
... a forest coverage rate of only 1.9% and serious land degradation. The eroded area in Jianping County had reached 81% of ... North China. Yikezhao Prefecture in Inner Mongolia exhibits a degree of land degradation that has been referred to as the "moon on earth" and ... livelihoods, as arable land and grassland is being lost. The 'moon on earth' In order to check the environmental degradation, the local ...
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Welcome to ISPPWeb
... despite the need to provide more food for an expanding population, on less arable land (due to land degradation and urbanization). The flexibility is being curtailed due to limitations being placed on pesticide ...
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Welcome to Soils 310
... . In this unit we want to give you a comprehensive introduction to managing soil degradation issues by furthering your understanding of soil physical, biological and chemical aspects. Unit aims ... affect the functioning of the soil-water-plant-atmosphere continuum a good knowledge of major land degradation issues and approaches to their management an awareness of an advanced set of techniques ...
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... : The act of cutting down and clearing away forests of a region or stretch of land. DEGRADATION: The change of one kind of soil to a more highly leached soil. DEHISCE: To ... soil to ammonia or free nitrogen that can escape into the air. DENSHIRE: To improve land by burning piles of earth, turf, and stubble and then spreading the ashes over the ...
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