Plant associations are determined by complex interactions with their environment depending on resource availability, landscape features, and periodic disturbances that shape the structure and functions of these communities. Forests, savannas and grasslands extend across the global land surface, contribute to planetary processes and provide ecosyste...
Having identified a general lack of knowledge about the value of livestock manure and integrated manure management at multiple levels in government and society, a concerted action led to the compilation of a training manual for extension workers on manure management in the (sub-)tropics. Covering the whole manure chain, from animal excretion to the...
During the International Year of the Potato, celebrated in 2008, FAO and CIP helped forge partnerships worldwide to address critical aspects of sustainable potato production. This technical guide collates that experience to review technical, socio-economic, policy and institutional factors that currently constrain increased potato production and pr...
Part of the required increase in wheat production in currently high yielding wheat producing regions, like in the (sub-)tropics (ME1), will have to be obtained primarily by increased genetic wheat yield potential. Progress obtained by breeding to increase yield potential was substantial in the past, but is currently declining. Support from other di...
Comprehensive study on interactions between livestock production systems and the environment. Management of waste from animal product processing is the main subject
Hot pepper ( Capsicum spp.) is the most important low elevation vegetable commodity in Indonesia. Yields are low, in part due to crop health problems. Farmers' practices were surveyed by means of exploratory surveys. Hot pepper pests and diseases were identified and described. Components of integrated crop management (ICM) of hot pepper were invest...
