Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Dryland Farming: Concepts, Origin and Brief History; Bob A. Stewart and Sushil Thapa 2. Research and Developmental Issues in Dryland Agriculture; Muhammad Farooq and Kadambot H.M. Siddique PART 2: ELEMENTS OF DRYLAND AGRICULTURE 3. Water Harvesting in the Dry Environments; Attila Yazar and Akhtar Ali 4. Weed Management in Dryland Agriculture Systems; Michael Walsh 5. Nutrient Management in Dryland Agriculture Systems; Ahmad Nawaz and Muhammad Farooq 6. Insect-pests in Dryland Agriculture and their Integrated Management; Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Dildar Gogi and Muhammad Sufyan 7. Epidemiology and Management of Fungal Diseases in Dry Environments; Abdullah M. Al-Sadi 8. Integrated and Innovative Livestock Production in Drylands; Dominique Blache, Philip E. Vercoe1, Graeme B. Martin and Dean K Revell PART 3: MODELING AND CROP IMPROVEMENT FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE 9. Modelling Dryland Agricultural Systems; D. Rodriguez, P. deVoil and B. Power <10. Breeding and Genetic Enhancement of Dryland Crops; Quahir Sohail, Hafsa Naheed and Reza Mohammadi PART 4: DRYLAND AGRICULTURE: SOME CASE STUDIES 11. Dryland Agriculture in Australia; W. K. Anderson, D. Stephens and K.H.M. Siddique 12. Pastures in Australia's Dryland Agricultural Zone; Ann Hamblin 13. Dryland Agriculture in South Asia; Ch. Srinivasa Rao, K.A. Gopinath, C.A. Rama Rao, B.M.K. Raju, R. Rejani, G. Venkatesh and V. Visha Kumari 14. Integrated Dryland Agriculture Sustainable Management in Northwest China; Feng-Min Li, You-Cai Xiong, Xiao-Gang Li, Feng Zhang andYu Guan 15. Dryland Agriculture in North America; Neil C. Hansen, Brett L. Allen, Saseendran Anapalli, Robert Blackshaw, Drew Lyon and Stephen Machado 16. Nurturing Agricultural Productivity and Resilience in Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa; Tilahun Amede, and Admassu Tsegaye PART 5: INNOVATIONS IN DRYLAND AGRICULTURE 17. Soil Carbon Sequestration in Dryland Agriculture; Muhammad Shakeel Arshad, Muhammad Sanaullah and Muhammad Farooq 18. Application of Microbiology in Dryland Agriculture; Minakshi Grover, B. Venkateswarlu, S. Desai, K.A. Gopinath and Ch. Srinivasarao 19. Salinity in Drylands: Challenges and Opportunities; D.J. McFarlane, R.J. George, E.G. Barrett-Lennard and M. Gilfedder 20. Supplemental Irrigation: A Promising Climate-resilience Practice for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture; Vinay Nangia and Theib Oweis