Dryland Agriculture, Second Edition

Dryland Agriculture, Second Edition

Author: G.A. Peterson, P.W. Unger, W.A. Payne
ISBN: 9780891181606
Pages: 1026
Format: 15 Χ 23
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2006

DESCRIPTION

Dryland agriculture is of more consequence now than ever because the world’s dependence on food produced in dryland areas is even greater. In recognition of this, and the fact that global food supply is increasingly interconnected, this volume takes a world view of dryland production continent by continent. The initial chapters of the monograph address the principles that underlie all dryland farming, and are the basis for the following chapters that address dryland farming issues around the world.

CONTENTS

1 Dryland Agriculture Defined and Its Importance to
the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bobby A. Stewart, Parviz Koohafkan, and K. Ramamoorthy
2 Historical Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Harold E. Dregne
3 Water Conservation and Efficient Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Paul W. Unger, William A. Payne, and Gary A. Peterson
4 Soil Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Paul W. Unger, Donald W. Fryrear, and
Michael J. Lindstrom
5 Crop Choices and Rotation Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
R. Louis Baumhardt and Randy L. Anderson
6 Soil Fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Alan J. Schlegel and Cynthia A. Grant
7 Guidelines for Integrating Ecological Principles of Pest
Management with Rotation Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Randy L. Anderson, Karen L. Bailey, and Frank B. Peairs
8 Mixed Crop–Livestock Systems in Semiarid Regions . . . . . . . . . . 227
Hans (J.B.) Schiere, R. Louis Baumhardt,
Herman Van Keulen, Anthony M. Whitbread,
Anne S. Bruinsma, Tony (A.V.) Goodchild, Pablo Gregorini,
Maja (M.A.) Slingerland, and Birgitte Hartwell
9 Dryland Cropping in the Canadian Prairies and the U.S.
Northern Great Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Verlan Cochran, Joan Danielson, Robert Kolberg, and
Perry Miller
10 Dryland Agriculture in Mexico and the U.S. Southern
Great Plains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
R. Louis Baumhardt and Jaime Salinas-Garcia
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11 Dryland Cropping in the Western United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
William F. Schillinger, Robert I. Papendick, Stephen O. Guy,
Paul E. Rasmussen, and Chris van Kessel
12 Management Systems in Southern South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Daniel E. Buschiazzo
13 Management Systems in Northern South America . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Dimas Vital Siqueira Resck, Jose´ Eurı´pedes da Silva,
Alfredo Scheid Lopes, and Liovando Marciano da Costa
14 Dryland Farming in South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Rattan Lal
15 Drylands of the Mediterranean Zone: Biophysical Resources
and Cropping Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
John Ryan, Eddy de Pauw, Humberto Gomez, and
Rachid Mrabet
16 Dryland Agriculture in Northeastern Europe and
Northwestern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Mekhlis Suleimenov
17 Dryland Agriculture in Eastern Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Shengxiu Li and Zhaohui Wang
18 Dryland Cropping Systems of Semiarid West and East Africa . . . 733
William A. Payne
19 Dryland Farming in Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
Stephen J. Twomlow, J. Tom Steyn, and Chris C. du Preez
20 Management Systems in Climate Regions of the World—
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
David M. Freebairn, Peter S. Cornish, Wal K. Anderson,
Steve R. Walker, J. Brett Robinson, and Alan R. Beswick
21 Policies and Market Development to Accelerate Technological
Change in the Semiarid Zones: A Focus on Sub-Saharan
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879
John H. Sanders and Barry Shapiro
22 Dryland Agriculture Research Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901
Gary A. Peterson, Paul W. Unger, William A. Payne,
Randy L. Anderson, and R. Louis Baumhardt
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909