Search Results - "tropics"

Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists by Toit, J.T. du, Walker, B.H., Campbell, Bruce M.

Subjects: “…tropical forests…”
Get full text

The efficiency of payments for environmental services in tropical conservation by Wunder, Sven

“…Theoretical assessments praise the advantages of PES over indirect approaches, but in the tropics PES application has remained incipient. Here I aim to demystify PES and clarify its scope for application as a tool for tropical conservation. …”
Get full text

Improved tropical forest management for carbon retention by Putz, F.E., Zuidema, Pieter A., Pinard, M.A., Boot, R.G.A., Sayer, Jeffrey A., Sheil, Douglas, Sist, P., Vanclay, J.K.

“…Using reduced-impact timber-harvesting practices in legally logged tropical forests would reduce global carbon emissions by 0.16 Gt/year at a modest cost and with little risk of "leakage" (increased carbon emissions elsewhere).…”
Get full text

Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation by Ghazoul, J., Sheil, Douglas

Subjects: “…tropical rain forests…”
Get full text

An introduction to five tropical landscapes, their people and their governance by Colfer, C.J.P., Pfund, J.L.

Subjects: “…tropical forests…”
Get full text

Tropical forest management and climate change adaptation by Guariguata, Manuel R.

“…The links between tropical forests and global climate change have traditionally focused on mitigation. …”
Get full text

Worm control for small ruminants in tropical Asia by Sani, R.A., Gray, G.D., Baker, R.L.

“…ACIAR funded a collaborative project between research organisations in Southeast Asia for ILRI and regional partners to explore new ways to control helminth parasites in the tropics. The project aimed to increase small ruminant production in Southeast Asia by controlling internal parasites, which are one of the major constraints to sheep and goat production in the tropics. …”
Get full text

Small ruminant production systems in tropical Africa by Wilson, R.T.

Subjects: “…tropical africa…”
Get full text

Sustainable breeding programmes for tropical farming systems by Philipsson, J., Rege, J.E.O., Okeyo Mwai, Ally

Get full text

Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs by Béné, Christophe, Abban, E.K., Abdel-Rahman, S.H., Ayyappan, S., Brummett, R.E., Dankwa, H.R., Das, Anup K., Habib, O.A., Katiha, P.K., Kolding, J., Obirih-Opareh, N., Ofori, J.K., Shehata, M., Shrivastava, N.P., Vass, K.K.

“…“Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs” The objective of the project was to contribute to the current research on reservoirs enhancement fisheries in tropical countries through the implementation of a series of action-research activities implemented in two small reservoirs in the Indo-Gangetic basin in India, and two very large reservoirs in Africa, the Lake Nasser (Egypt), and the Volta Lake (Ghana). …”
Get full text

Sustainable breeding programmes for tropical farming systems by Philipsson, J., Rege, J.E.O.

Get full text

Apomixis for cultivar development in tropical forage grasses by Miles, John W.

“…A breeding scheme—recurrent selection for specific combining ability—designed to accumulate nonadditive effects, originally proposed for sexual maize (Zea mays L.), is suggested as an appropriate scheme for improvement of apomictic tropical grasses. Recurrent selection on specific combining ability or interpopulation selection schemes such as reciprocal recurrent selection should be appropriate for other asexually propagated crops.…”
Get full text

Resistance to diseases and pests of tropical pasture plants by Lenné, Jillian M., Turner, J.W., Cameron, DF

“…In recent years, increasing numbers of pathogens and pests have been reported from major centres of tropical pasture research. Damage is often severe and controls are needed. …”
Get full text

Silicon deficiency and the adaptation of tropical rice ecotypes by Winslow, M.D., Okada, Kensuke, Correa Victoria, Fernando J.

“…These results corroborate published findings from West Africa and Hawaii, and lend support to a conclusion that acid-soil upland rice environments in the tropics tend to be deficient in Si, increasing disease damage, among other effects. …”
Get full text

CIDARC, another source of information on tropical agriculture by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

Get full text

Tropical products: facing up to Asia's challenge by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The ACP countries are losing out in the international market for major tropical products - despite the strategies operating under the terms of the Lome Convention. …”
Get full text

The potential of Tropical Africa in by-products for animal feeds by International Livestock Centre for Africa

Subjects: “…tropical africa…”
Get full text

Evaluation of goat populations in tropical and subtropical environments by Peters, Kurt J.

Subjects: “…tropics…”
Get full text

The water resource in tropical Africa and its exploitation by Edwards, K.A., Classen, G.A., Schroten, E.H.J.

Subjects: “…tropical africa…”
Get full text

Organisation and management of water supplies in tropical Africa by Sandford, S.

Subjects: “…tropical africa…”
Get full text