Resources
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Lost Crops of Africa. Volume I Grains |
This book focuses on native cereals from Africa, and presents information on where and how each grain is grown, harvested, and processed and list its benefits and limitations as a food source. |
October 6, 2010 | |
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Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas in animal feeding |
July 27, 2010 | ||
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Vietnam plant data center |
Database about the plant resources of Vietnam. |
July 21, 2010 | |
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An introduction to agroforestry |
July 12, 2010 | |||
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Cactus (Opuntia spp.) as forage |
This book provides technical and scientific knowledge on opuntia utilization as forage in many different places in the world. |
June 15, 2010 | |
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eFloras, a collection of on-line floras from around the world |
Includes floras from Madagascar, Chile, Ecuador, North America, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan etc. |
June 11, 2010 | |
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Tropical animal feeding. A manual for research workers |
This FAO manual includes: the importance of managing natural resources for sustainable development and of identifying priority areas for research aimed at solving practical problems and improving the lot of small farmers in developing countries, the basic principles of animal nutrition, the identification of important feed resources and of some appropriate technologies to better use them. |
March 24, 2010 | |
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United States-Canadian Tables of Feed Composition |
March 24, 2010 | ||
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Lost Crops of Africa. Volume III Fruits |
March 24, 2010 | ||
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Agroforestree Database: a tree reference and selection guide version 4.0 |
The Agroforestree Database provides information on the management, use and ecology of a wide range of tree species which can be used in agroforestry. |
March 24, 2010 | |
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Tropical forages |
Tropical Forages is a tool for selecting forage species suitable for local conditions in the tropics and subtropics. |
March 24, 2010 | |
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Browse in Africa. The current state of knowledge |
March 24, 2010 | ||
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Forage tree legumes in tropical agriculture |
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major tropical forage tree legume species, and their evaluation and utilisation in sustainable agricultural production systems. |
March 24, 2010 | |
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Famine foods database |
Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This website provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered. |
March 24, 2010 | ||
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SSA Feeds - Sub-saharan Africa feed composition database |
Web-based software and database that provides information on the nutritive value of 14,571 samples of 459 livestock feeds from 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). |
March 24, 2010 | |
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Feeding pigs in the tropics |
This publication is an extensive review of the research on non-traditional feedstuffs used for feeding pigs in the tropics. |
March 24, 2010 | |
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ILDIS World Database of Legumes |
ILDIS is an international project which maintains a database of plants in the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and provides services to scientists and other people interested in these plants |
March 24, 2010 |