The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture

• Author : Roger D. Norton
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 27 December 2016

The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies describes and synthesizes existing methodologies for evaluating competitiveness in agriculture, introduces extensions and refinements, and provides a novel approach based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. As exports of tropical fruit, nuts, and other high-value crops have been growing very rapidly from developing countries, but often encounter serious obstacles in their value chains, this book demonstrates how national agricultural policy is oftentimes not guided by

• Author : Alim Isnansetyo,Tri Rini Nuringtyas
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 21 November 2017

The proceeding of tropical agriculture is a proceeding of papers presented at the International Conference on Tropical Agriculture. Sustainability of agriculture production system is an important issue in the world, which includes all aspects of sustainable criteria, such as technical, socio-economic, and ecological aspects. This book covers sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical fisheries, sustainable tropical animal production, sustainable tropical forestry, tropical animal health, and Innovative and Emerging Food Technology and Management. The most common, challenging issues in plant, animal and

• Author : Estelle Biénabe,Alain Rival,Denis Loeillet
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 20 February 2017

This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics – with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades – to that of sustainable development. Increased environmental and social concerns urge agri-chain actors and development practitioners to design innovations, and public and private actors to invent regulations in connection with agri-chains to improve sustainability.With a view to contributing towards implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book examines the different roles of agri-chains: as vectors of development, as spaces of innovation, as objects

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
• Release : 16 May 2022

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 May 1998

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : CIAT
• Release : 16 May 2022

• Author : C. Martin Webber,Patrick Labaste
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release : 16 December 2009

Value chain based approaches offer tremendous scope for market-based improvements in production, productivity, rural economy diversification, and household incomes, but are often covered by literature that is too conceptual or heavily focused on analysis. This has created a gap in the information available to planners, practitioners, and value chain participants. Furthermore, few references are available on how these approaches can be applied specifically to developing agriculture in Africa. 'Building Competitiveness in Africa s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts

• Author : University of Peradeniya. Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture. Congress
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 May 2022

• Author : African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Conference
• Publisher : IITA
• Release : 27 October 1992

Biological nitrogen fixation in tropical agrosystems: twenty years of biological nitrogen fixation research in Africa; Sustainable agriculture: definition and measurement; Biological nitrogen fixation systems in tropical ecosystems: an overview; A protocol for screening legumes as soil-improving crops; The sustenance of tropical agriculture with multipurpose azolla; Facteurs pedoclimatiques limitant la lixation biologique l'azole; Response of some tropical nitrogen-fixing woody legumes to drought and inoculation with mycorrhiza; Improvement to the Phaseolus/Rhizobium symbiosis, with particular reference to the Caribbean region; Effect of

• Author : Urs P. Jäger,Vijay Sathe
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 31 December 2014

Using a combination of thorough research and practical examples, Strategy and Competitiveness in Latin American Markets explains how the concept of the sustainability frontier that the book develops resolves the long-running debate on whether sustainability requires trade-offs or not.

• Author : Anggoro Cahyo Sukartiko,Tri Rini Nuringtyas,Siti Nurleily Marliana,Alim Isnansetyo
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 04 December 2018

This book covers the sustainable tropical agriculture, sustainable tropical animal production and health, sustainable tropical forestry, socio-economic dimension in tropical agriculture and innovative and emerging food technology and management as chapters in this book. The common challenging problems in plant, animal, and fisheries production in the tropic are climate change, inefficiency production system, low technological innovation, decreasing environment quality, and the outbreak risk of pest and diseases.

• Author : Patrick Antoine
• Publisher : IICA
• Release : 16 May 1993

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 May 1997

• Author : Hoda, Anwarul,Gulati, Ashok
• Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
• Release : 03 April 2008

The World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching implications for the trade and economic prospects of developing countries in the twenty-first century, it is critical for these countries to fully understand the issues involved in the negotiations on agriculture. However, there has been no authoritative analysis of the rules and

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 16 May 2022