Tropical Agriculture Books


The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization (At Table) Best Price: $42.09 The banana is the world’s most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a...	The Oil Palm (World Agriculture Series) The oil palm is the world's most valuable oil crop. With palm oil production increasing by more...	Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar Best Price: $13.00 This book has become a classic for all of us who study Cuba's history and society. However, I...	Tropical Soils: Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture (Topics in Sustainable Agronomy) Best Price: $76.51 The book by Juo and Franzluebbers is the best book ever written on the subject of tropical soils...	Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers (Ohio RIS Latin America Series) Best Price: $22.00 If you ever wondered if organic farming can really be as productive as chemical farming, or if...



Shelf Life: Food Industry Briefing Series Best Price: $59.39 The crucial subject of the shelf life of food products affects the manufacture, processing,...	The Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-known Plants of the Andes With Promise for Worldwide Cultivation Best Price: $42.50 The book is a little dry, but you'd expect that from something by the National Research Council....	The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics Best Price: $89.00 This first modern, full-bodied study of early horticulture and agriculture in the Neotropics...	Sugarcane (World Agriculture Series) Best Price: $150.11 From enhancing the flavour of food to providing a substrate for fermentation, sugar is renowned...	Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical Environments (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science) Best Price: $148.85 Twenty contributions on diverse aspects of the environmental geochemistry in tropical and...



OECD Sustainable Development Studies Measuring Sustainable Production (Oecd Sustainable Development Studies) Best Price: $48.49 Promoting sustainable production and consumption is at the core of sustainable development,...	Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes Best Price: $43.47 I liked this book in general. Nevertheless the authors are as more interested to promote...	The Earthscan Reader in Tropical Forestry Best Price: $89.94 Tropical forests are one of the world's most important resources: they contain the vast majority...	Cassava: Biology, Production and Utilization (Cabi Publishing) Best Price: $153.00 Cassava is a major tropical tuber crop found throughout the tropics (India, Africa and Latin...	Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households, Global Coffee, and Fair Trade Best Price: $19.64

Cocoa (Tropical Agriculture)	Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics Best Price: $15.99 Rain forests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands,...	Cultivating Biodiversity Best Price: $19.86 The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC)...	Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical Cropping Systems Best Price: $78.24 Nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants is especially important when farmers are trying to...	Tropical Mariculture Best Price: $41.95 De Silva has done an excellent job of reviewing the current state of tropical marine...

Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture Best Price: $154.94 The first edition of this title was published in 1990. This fully updated second edition covers...	Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, Concise Revised Edition (Exploring World History) Best Price: $4.00 Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed...	The Silviculture of Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) Best Price: $72.75 This book gives a comprehensive account of mahogany silviculture, with a particular emphasis on...	Principles of Tropical Agronomy Best Price: $49.62 As populations continue to grow in tropical countries, there is an ever increasing pressure to...	Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azucar/Cuban Counterpoint of tabacco & sugar (Letras Hispanicas, 528) (Letras Hispanicas, 528) Best Price: $31.99 Contrapunteo del tabaco y el az?car is one of those books that should have been a pamphlet....

Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands (Historical Ecology Series) Best Price: $86.50	The Indigenous Fermented Foods of the Sudan: A Study in African Food and Nutrition (Cabi Publishing) Best Price: $164.00 Recent decades have witnessed increased interest in the foods of Africa, spurred on by the...	Remote Sensing Handbook for Tropical Coastal Management (Coastal Management Sourcebooks) Best Price: $40.00 This book tackles a range of issues when using remote sensing for coastal management. Don't let...	Tropical Island Herpetofauna Hardbound. Tropical Island Herpetofauna presents fifteen individual contributions. Part I...	Last Stand: Protected Areas and the Defense of Tropical Biodiversity Best Price: $36.44 During the past century, tropical rain forests have been reduced to about half of their original...

Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models) (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models) Best Price: $158.31 Tropical crop plants are one of the natural world s most valuable assets. However, the genetic...	Handbook of Citrus By-Products and Processing Technology Best Price: $153.95 This book provides a complete treatment of citrus by-products - including data, research and...	Saving the Tropical Forests Best Price: $28.23 A source book on the causes and effects of tropical deforestation.	Bananas and Plantains (Crop Production Science in Horticulture, 5) Best Price: $58.65 This was a gift for someone who had a small grove of various bananas in Florida. It was...	Handbook of Tropical Food Crops Best Price: $109.54

Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia Best Price: $18.50 This collection of fourteen essays presents a unique comparative analysis of agrarian change in...	African Gardens and Orchards: Growing Vegetables and Fruit (Land & Life Series)	Plantation Forestry in the Tropics: Tree Planting for Industrial, Social, Environmental, and Agroforestry Purposes Best Price: $85.00 Tree-planting and plantation forestry in tropical countries are expanding rapidly. Social and...	Smallholders And Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop And Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia (Verhandelingen) Best Price: $36.00 Smallholders and Stockbreeders provides a rare survey of the history of foodcrop farming and a...	African Water Resource Database: Gis-based Tools for Inland Aquatic Resource Management: Concepts and Application Case Studies (Cifa Technical Paper) Best Price: $171.41

Paddy Soil Science Best Price: $26.00	Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics And the Subtropics Best Price: $34.50	Modern Coconut Management: Palm Cultivation and Products Best Price: $89.95 Modern Coconut Management is aimed at guiding those who work with small-scale farmers and farmer...	Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and Management Best Price: $122.95 Tropical Forest Insect Pests promotes a better theoretical understanding of pest population...	Tropicals Best Price: $20.00 Good book, many different plants, but pictures could be larger. Good book for the price.

Crop Residues in Sustainable Mixed Crop/Livestock Farming Systems (Cabi Publishing) Best Price: $111.00 This book provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on crop residues, bringing together crop,...	Temperate and Subtropical Fruit Production Best Price: $53.99 Written by leading experts in horticulture, plant pathology, entomology, and agricultural...	The Biology of Mosquitoes: Sensory, Reception, and Behaviour (Volume 2) Best Price: $421.72 Notorious nuisances and major transmitters of disease, mosquitoes are also important...	Annual Cropping Systems in the Tropics: An Introduction	Food Legumes (Tropical Agriculturalist) Best Price: $17.48

Oilseed Crops (World Agriculture Series) Best Price: $210.52 Oilseeds are a very important component of semi-tropical and tropical agriculture, providing...	Tropical Cattle: Origins, Breeds and Breeding Policies (Tropical Agriculture) "Domestic cattle are ubiquitous" the authors begin. They back this up with statistics:...	Tropical Agriculture in Transition - Opportunities for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Best Price: $19.20 Production from tropical agricultural systems will need to increase to satisfy the rising food...	Useful Palms of the World Best Price: $274.72	Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry Best Price: $55.00 Insects are major pests of both natural and plantation forests in the tropics. This book is the...

Tropical Plant Diseases Best Price: $43.00	Diseases of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Crops (Cabi Publishing) Best Price: $65.00 Globally, tropical fruit production is increasing as demand increases in Northern temperate...	Defending Our Rainforest: A Guide to Community-Based Ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon Best Price: $5.00	Sheep Production in the Subtropics (Tropical Agriculture)	Outwitting Critters (Outwitting) Best Price: $1.95 This is a very well-written and thorough book. Almost every possible creature is covered. ...

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