Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Contributors.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Part I Sustainable Agricultural Development Face to Environmental, Economic and Social Dynamics.- 1 Agricultural and food System - Global Change Nexus: Dynamics and Policy Implications.- 2 Challenges facing the macroeconomic policy for sustainable development in agriculture (based on the model of organic agriculture in Bulgaria).- 3 Environmentally sound and commercially sustainable agricultural development in Nigeria.- 4 Some socio-economic factors affecting farmers’ participation of agricultural extension education efforts: A case study in Northeastern Thailand.- 5 Factors influencing the choice of inorganic contrasting to organic practices in Irish potato production and viable actions to reverse the trend: A case study of Kisoro District, South-western Uganda.- 6 Moroccan agriculture facing climate change: Adaptation and local distribution of the value added.- 7 Economic impact of climate change on wheat productivity in Bangladesh: A Ricardian approach.- 8 Farmers’ attitude towards the traditional and modern irrigation methods in Tabuk Region - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.- Part II Impacts of Soil Degradation in Terms of Agricultural Productivity.- 9 Using expert system for sustainable agriculture and capacity building in degraded soils.- 10 Managing degraded lands for realizing sustainable agriculture through environmental friendly technologies.- 11 Land suitability evaluation for jatropha (jatropha curcas l.) plantation in Indonesia.- 12 Physiological adaptation of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) genotypes to salt stress: One of deleterious impacts of climate change.- Part III Livestock Production Enhancement: Recommended Techniques.- 13 Use of Prosopis juliflora seedpod as livestock feed in the arid and semi arid Rangelands of Kenya.- 14 Plankton and common reed – a potential resource for domestic animals and fish in North Delta lakesof Egypt.- 15 Is the “Livestock Revolution” achievable in water deprived areas? A reflection from experiments with irrigated smallholder farms in Morocco.- 16 Colostral IgG as affected by nutritional status for border leicester merino ewes deliver in Kuwait.- Part IV Agro-Biodiversity, Climate Change and Livelihoods:.- Managing Interdependence.- 17 Simulation of carbon consumption by biological models.- 18 Biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in cocoa agroforest in Southern Cameroon.- 19 Agroforestry systems in Morocco: The case of olive tree and annual crops association.- 20 Sacred mangrove forests: Who bears the pride?.- 21 Adoption and utilisation of ethno-postharvest technologies by smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe: Case of Buhera District.- 22 The importance of non wood forest products for rural livelihoods: The case of South Kordofan State, Sudan.- 23 Co-management of forests and forest land under decentralization process in Central Vietnam.- Biographies of Contributors.- Authors Index.- Subject Index.