Pioneer - dipterocarp plantations; an appropriate strategy for reforestation of Imperata cylindrica grassland
Off-farm income, risk, and agricultural production: a case study of smallholders in India's semi-arid tropics
The purpose of the current study was to determine to what extent development of the nonfarm sector stimulates crop production and agricultural employment in India's semi-arid tropics (SAT). Two characteristics of India's SAT agriculture formed the basis for the study: i) that the major agricultural producers, smallholders, earn a significant part o...
Scales of ambient light variation
Development and management of Maludam national park; inception report
Application of biotechnology and molecular biology and breeding : General breeding and breeding and evaluation of temper...
DGIS-WWF tropical forest portfolio 1996-2001 : midterm evaluation - interregional component
Stress, storage and survival of neem seed
Neem ( Azadirachta indica ) is an important multipurpose tropical tree species, frequently used in planting programmes in the arid tropics. However, its seeds are difficult to store for extended periods of time, as are those of many other tropical species which display intermediate or recalcitrant storage behaviour. This thesis describes the result...
Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa
Living with wildlife : coexistence of wildlife and livestock in an East African Savanna system
This thesis has as its main theme the coexistence of wildlife and livestock in East African savannas. First however, the group size of native herbivore species was related to their body mass, feeding style, habitat choice and density. Body mass explained most variation in group size because of its relation to food requirements and how different siz...
Introduction de la bionomie dans la gestion des forets tropicales denses humides
- INTRODUCTION OF BIONOMICS IN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST MANAGEMENT -Conservation of tropical rain forests as renewable resources is governed by the bionomics of the forest ecosystem. Bionomics are here used as the set of conditions that govern the development and existence of an organism, species or biological system in a changing environment. These "l...
