Md Sayed Iftekhar, M. Rafiqul Islam
Mohammad Abdul Kader, Ashutus Singha, Mili Amena Begum, Arif Jewel et al.
Abstract Agricultural water resources have been limited over the years due to global warming and irregular rainfall in the arid and semi-arid regions. To mitigate the water stress in agriculture, mulching has a crucial impact as a water-saving technique in rain-fed crop cultivation. It is important ...
Lalit Kumar, Ngawang Chhogyel, Tharani Gopalakrishnan, Md Kamrul Hasan et al.
Climate change is affecting many facets of our lives and livelihoods, and food production is one of them. While the world population continues to increase, agricultural land and food production are being impacted by climate change at an ever-increasing rate. This chapter looks at climate change and ...
Patricia Howard
* Foreword * 1. Women and the Plant World: An Exploration - Patricia L. Howard * Part 1: Culture, Kitchen and Conservation * 2. Women in the Garden and Kitchen: The Role of Cuisine in the Conservation of Traditional House Lot Crops among Yucatec Mayan Immigrants - Laurie S. Z. Greenberg * 3. Wild Fo...
Hridoy Ul Awall Rezvi, Md. Tahjib‐Ul‐Arif, Md. Abdul Azim, Toufica Ahmed Tumpa et al.
Abstract Environmental stresses including salinity, drought, cold, warmer temperatures, alterations in precipitation patterns, fluctuations of weather events, and increasing insect and disease infestations negatively affect crop production and nutritional values. This situation becomes further compl...
OM Akinnagbe, I. Irohibe
Climate change is expected to intensify existing problems and create new combinations of risks, particularly in Africa. The situation is made worst due to factor such as widespread poverty, over dependence on rain fed agriculture, inequitable land distribution, limited access to capital and technolo...
Gabrijel Ondrašek, Santosha Rathod, K. K. Manohara, C. Gireesh et al.
Salinization of soils and freshwater resources by natural processes and/or human activities has become an increasing issue that affects environmental services and socioeconomic relations. In addition, salinization jeopardizes agroecosystems, inducing salt stress in most cultivated plants (nutrient d...
MS Alam, M. R. Alam, Kazi Kamrul Islam
In this paper, a qualitative energy flow analysis in Bangladesh agriculture has been made for a period from 1980-81 to 2000-01 to evaluate the impact of energy input to produce output. Human and animal muscle power and machinery energy for tillage operation, electricity and diesel energy for irrigat...
Bruno Locatelli, Carla P. Catterall, Pablo Imbach, Chetan Kumar et al.
Tropical reforestation (TR) has been highlighted as an important intervention for climate change mitigation because of its carbon storage potential. TR can also play other frequently overlooked, but significant, roles in helping society and ecosystems adapt to climate variability and change. For exa...
Eric Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, John Seidensticker, Susan Lumpkin et al.
Abstract In an unprecedented response to the rapid decline in wild tiger populations, the Heads of Government of the 13 tiger range countries endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in November 2010, pledging to double the wild tiger population. We conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to ...
W. Erskine
<title>Abstract</title> This book provides a comprehensive review of current lentil research. It contains 26 chapters covering topics on lentil global production, supply and demand; origin, phylogeny, domestication and spread; plant morphology, anatomy and growth habit; agroecology and adaptation; g...
Rajan Bhatt, Pritpal Singh, Akbar Hossain, Jagadish Timsina
Puddled transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) followed by intensively tilled wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (R–W) is the most predominant cropping system and the lifeline for billions of people in South Asia. The cultivation of R–W system requires high amounts of water, nutrients and energy, resulting i...
Zullyadini A. Rahaman, Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy, Milan Saha, Asyirah Abdul Rahim et al.
Peter Saenger, N. A. Siddiqi
The coastal areas of Bangladesh have a high cyclone frequency. The protection from cyclone damage afforded by the natural mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, led the Forest Department in 1966 to initiate a mangrove afforestation programme. These initial plantings proved highly successful in protecti...