Online Agriculture Ebooks & Book Reviews: Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana

Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana is edited by Edwin A. Gyasi and Juha I. Uitto. This agriculture book is published by United Nations. This agriculture book focus mainly on Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa. This book explains topics in agriculture such as farming systems, land use and cover patterns, environment for agriculture and farming systems designing issues, etc.

Following are the other topics covered in this agriculture book.

General agriculture background
People, land management and environmental change: Conceptual background, with focus on Africa
Indigenous African farming systems: Their significance for sustainable environmental use
Criteria for designing sustainable farming systems in tropical Africa
Background and objectives of the study of production pressure and environmental change in the southern forest-savanna transition zone
A multidisciplinary integrated methodology
Land use and cover patterns
Soils
Floral and faunal diversity
Population growth and urban demand
Ability of the farming systems to cope and strategies for sustaining farming
Gender and non-governmental organizations in environmental management
Interacting with the environment: Adaptation and regeneration on degraded land in upper Manya Krobo
Land use and cover change in the southern forest-savanna transition zone in Ghana: A sequence model
Women, environmental change and economic crisis in Ghana
Conclusions and directions for future agriculture research

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