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Beyond the Gene Horizon: sustaining agricultural productivity and enhancing livelihoods through optimization of crop and crop-associated biodiversity with emphasis on semi-arid tropical agroecosystems

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Title Beyond the Gene Horizon: sustaining agricultural productivity and enhancing livelihoods through optimization of crop and crop-associated biodiversity with emphasis on semi-arid tropical agroecosystems
 
Creator Waliyar, F
Collette, L
Kenmore, P E
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description These proceedings contain the summaries of 10 papers on crop production and management in semiarid regions. Topics include strategic assessment of agriculture in the semiarid tropics; pest and disease biodiversity and their management (i.e. integrated control); vegetational diversity, arthropod response, and pest management; effect of organic resources management on soil biodiversity and crop performance under semiarid conditions in West Africa; managing and harnessing soil flora and fauna biodiversity for sustainable crop production; improving agricultural productivity and livelihoods through pollination; strengthening crop biodiversity through targeted seed-supply interventions; enhancing the livelihood of rural communities by promoting neglected crops and associated biodiversity; and improving the productivity and livelihood benefits of crop-livestock systems through the sustainable management of agricultural biodiversity.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2002
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1114/1/RA_00386.pdf
Waliyar, F and Collette, L and Kenmore, P E (2002) Beyond the Gene Horizon: sustaining agricultural productivity and enhancing livelihoods through optimization of crop and crop-associated biodiversity with emphasis on semi-arid tropical agroecosystems. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh.