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This is a collection of 14 papers addressing a range of issues that are important to consider as India develops its strategy for implementing the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and its multilateral system of access and benefit sharing in partic...


Halewood, MichaelBrahmi, P.Mathur, P.N.Bansal, Kailash C.[A road map for implementing the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing in India]A road map for implementing the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing in India

What is soil? Where does soil come from? What is special about soil in Africa? What does soil provide to society and the environment? How do our activities affect soil? The first ever Soil Atlas of Africa uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to answer and explain these a...


Jones, A.Breuning-Madsen HBrossard MDampha, A.Deckers, J.Dewitte, O.Gallali THallett SJones, R.Kilasara MLe Roux PMicheli EMontanarella LSpaargaren OThiombiano, L.Ranst, E, vanYemefack MZougmoré, Robert B.[Soil Atlas of Africa]Soil Atlas of Africa

This book examins the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo - and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable f...


Jalloh, AbdulaiNelson, Gerald C.Thomas, Timothy S.Zougmoré, Robert B.Roy-Macauley, Harold[West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis]West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis

Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will inc...


Hachigonta, SepoNelson, Gerald C.Thomas, Timothy S.Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele[Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Research Monograph]Southern African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Research Monograph

Lal, R.[Soil erosion problems on an alfisol in western Nigeria and their control: IITA monograph No. 1]Soil erosion problems on an alfisol in western Nigeria and their control: IITA monograph No. 1

This study produces a set of maps and tables that locate significant populations of poor livestock keepers and has broadly assessed how poor livestock keeping populations are likely to change over the next 3-5 decades. The outputs of the study are based on innovative analysis using new global dat...


Thornton, Philip K.Kruska, R.L.Henninger, N.Kristjanson, Patricia M.Reid, Robin S.Atieno, F.Odero, A.N.Ndegwa, T.[Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world]Mapping poverty and livestock in the developing world

This book focuses on the relationship between climate-change adaptation, rural development and the roles of trees and agroforestry. Rewards' schemes for environmental services (RES) in multifunctional landscapes, which provide incentives for maintaining or restoring multifunctionality, will contr...


Noordwijk, Meine vanHoang, Minh HaNeufeldt, HenryÖborn, IngridYatich, T.[How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes]How trees and people can co- adapt to climate change: reducing vulnerability through multifunctional agroforestry landscapes

Global warming is a prominent environmental issue of the twenty-first century. Agriculture contributes to the global warming primarily through the emission and consumption of greenhouse gases (GHGs), viz. methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. The major sources of emission of GHGs in the agri...


Pathak, HimanshuAggarwal, Pramod K.[Low carbon technologies for agriculture: a study on rice and wheat production systems in the Indo-Gangetic plains]Low carbon technologies for agriculture: a study on rice and wheat production systems in the Indo-Gangetic plains

Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on the environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning of crop residue, have magnified soil erosion losses and the soil resourc...


Verhulst, NeleFrançois, Isabelle M.Govaerts, Bram[Conservation agriculture and carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality]Conservation agriculture and carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality

This IITA Guidebook will help you to identify many of the most common birds in the lake and forest areas of the campus. For each bird there is a photograph, a scientifi c name, common names in English and French, a description of the bird and notes on its ecology. The aim of this booklet is to en...


Adeyanju, A.T.Ottosson, U.Shiiwua, M.[Common birds of IITA]Common birds of IITA

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