Conservation tillage for sustainable wheat intensification: the example of South Asia Anthony GiddensConservation tillage (CT) is one among the prominent agronomic innovations proposed to address stagnant wheat yields in the Indo Gangetic Plains of South Asia. A review of recent literature and an analysis of farm household datasets indicate that the magnitude of economic impact of CT wheat, albeit being generally positive, varies widely across the region. The technology is yet to become popular among the smallholders, the diffusion constraints being
growth in the number of robotic milking installations on farms has been driven by the need for better labour management and also for improved quality of life for dairy producers
while novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes a walking tour with the great man around the streets of Gamaliya
the World Council of Churches' in the development of the ecumenical movement and of what today is often called World Christianity
and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model
this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive
the engagements of Victorian 'academics' including Frederic Leighton
It offers tremendous potential to accelerate crop improvement in a way that potentially reduces or eliminates the cumbersome and expensive regulatory processes associated with traditional transgenic crops
Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation
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as well as case studies from practitioners working in the creative and performing arts and new material from targeted research projects
This book proposes lowering the school leaving age to 14
Much of the life of old Nubia revolved around ceremonialism
