Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Proceedings of the Caribbean Workshop on Traditional and Potential Fruit Tree Crop Development, St. Georges, Grenada, 9-14 November, 1980
Author: Traditional and Potential Fruit Tree Crop Development
Author: Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Tropical Forests and Their Crops
Author: Nigel J. H. SmithPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717944
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops—beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts—the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.
Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey
Author: Nigel SmithPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031128036
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive listing of Amazon fruits from an ethnobotanical perspective. This detailed book covers 50 botanical families, 207 species, in the Amazon including how the people of each region use them. It is lavishly illustrated with high-quality photographs taken by the author, an extensive list of references, and Dr. Smith’s latest, meticulous research. This book should be a foundational work for scholars working in the plant sciences, researchers in ethnobotanical studies, and general interest scholars seeking more detailed information on the latest research by a leading scientist in the Amazon.
Agrindex
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Conference Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Guyana
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Needs in Science and Technology for Development in Caribbean Island Nations
Author: Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science and industry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
