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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456059203321

Titolo

Trees on the farm [[electronic resource] ] : assessing the adoption potential of agroforestry practices in Africa / / edited by S. Franzel, S.J. Scherr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub. in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, c2002

ISBN

1-280-82965-6

9786610829651

0-85199-884-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FranzelSteven Charles

ScherrSara J

Disciplina

634.9/9/096

Soggetti

Agroforestry systems - Africa

Agroforestry - Technology transfer - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods for Assessing Agroforestry Adoption Potential; 3 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Improved Fallows in Eastern Zambia; 4 The Adoption Potential of Short Rotation Improved Tree Fallows: Evidence from Western Kenya; 5 Assessing the Adoption Potential of Hedgerow Intercropping for Improving Soil Fertility, Western Kenya; 6 Farmer-designed Agroforestry Trials: Farmers' Experiences in Western Kenya; 7 Calliandra calothyrsus: Assessing the Early Stages of Adoption of a Fodder Shrub in the Highlands of Central Kenya

8 Promoting New Agroforestry Technologies: Policy Lessons from On-farm Research9 Assessing Adoption Potential: Lessons Learned and Future Directions; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title assesses the adoption of selected agroforestry practices developed with African farmers, describing methods, and drawing out the implications for research, development, and policy.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460351203321

Autore

Grayson Donald K

Titolo

The great basin [[electronic resource] ] : a natural prehistory / / Donald K. Grayson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-27782-4

9786613277824

0-520-94871-8

Edizione

[Rev. and expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GraysonDonald K

Disciplina

508.79

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic - Pleistocene

Geology, Stratigraphic - Holocene

Geology - Great Basin

Paleontology - Great Basin

Indians of North America - Great Basin - Antiquities

Paleo-Indians - Great Basin

Electronic books.

Great Basin Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: The desert's past. c1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The Great Basins -- pt. 2. Some Ice Age background -- pt. 3. The late Ice Age Great Basin -- pt. 4. The last 10,000 years -- pt. 5. Great Basin archaeology -- pt. 6. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the



Great Basin in the relatively recent past.These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape"--