Toward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries

by Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council, et al.

How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations? Toward Sustainability explores research priorities to support sustainable agriculture. The book identifies six areas that could offer great rewards: addressing institutional constraints on resource conservation, enhancing soil biological processes, managing soil properties, improving water resource management, matching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309046416
• ISBN13: 9780309046411
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 76 Pages