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Science & MathematicsOctober 2018Corporate Social Responsibility
Win-win Propositions for Communities, Corporates and Agriculture
by S P Wani, K V Raju, Anand K. Singh, Aviraj Datta, O.P. Chaturvedi, S.K. Dasgupta, Gajanan Sawargaonkar, Girish Chander, A.V.R. Kesava Rao, Kaushal K. Garg, Mukund D. Patil, G. Pardhasaradhi, K Srinivas, Raghavendra Sudi, Inder Dev, Kiran J. Petare, Nagaraju Budama, Rajesh Nune, Ramesh Singh, A. N. Rao, Prabhakar Pathak, D.S. Prasad Rao, C. Srinivasa Rao
This book examines the design and implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in rural areas, based on collaboration between well-known corporates and an international research organization. Researchers used various scientific tools and methods to enhance rural livelihoods and improve sustainable natural resources management. Including three chapters covering the philosophy and practices of CSR, this book covers emerging policies and their implications in India. Eight case studies based on actual practices explore climate-resilient agriculture, water footprint, improving livelihoods, diversification of crop pattern, enhancing crop productivity, and sustainable development in low rainfall regions. Five further chapters cover soil health improvement, improving rural wastewater management and enhancing rural livelihoods, based on various case studies. The book offers macro and micro perspectives of CSR work and its critical benefits to both community and natural resources. This book covers: Philosophy and practices of corporate social responsibility. Impact studies on improving livelihoods and sustainable development of natural resources. Process steps across various CSR initiatives. Distinct features of each corporate agency. This book will be useful to corporates, individuals involved in CSR work as well as students and researchers focused on agricultural development and the sustainable development of natural resources.
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August 2020Twenty People
by Chen Yanqun
The author uses documentary writing to record the words and deeds of 20 modern cultural masters, including Qian Zhongshu, Tian Han, Shen Congwen, Feng Youlan, Xia Zhiqing, Tai Jingnong, Zhang Daqian, Dong Zuobin, and Rao Zongyi. The author's textual feature is that the characters in the pen are all learned through the conversation and laughter of Luo Jintang, the master of Chinese studies, and further learned. Mr. Luo Jintang used to live, study and work in the mainland, Taiwan, and the United States. He has direct contacts with these cultural masters. Therefore, the content of this book has fresh content and a lively atmosphere, telling the Chinese stories of cultural people. This book not only talks about the relationship between the author and the master, but also about the relationship between the masters. Therefore, through this book, readers can understand and recognize the culture of the motherland with human beings, and have an understanding of the cultural people of their own countries. It will help readers to establish broad cultural aspirations and lofty ideals in life, and they can also experience from masters. Get the wisdom of life.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2020History, Historians and Development Policy
by C.A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter, Michael Woolcock
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Fertilizers & manuresOctober 2006Molecular Approaches to Soil, Rhizosphere and Plant Microorganism Analysis
by Edited by J E Cooper, J R Rao
There have been major developments in the field of plant-microbe interactions in recent years, due to newly developed techniques and the availability of genomic information. Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions explores these new discoveries, focusing primarily on the mechanisms controlling plant disease resistance, the cross-talk among the pathways involved and the strategies used by the pathogens to suppress these defences. By exploring developments in plant defences, pathogen's counter-defences and mutually beneficial plant-microbe interactions, this book will be useful for researchers and students in plant pathology and plant biology-related areas.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2011History, Historians and Development Policy
by Edited by C.A. Bayly, Vijayendra Rao, Simon Szreter and Michael Woolcock
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July 2016Millets Value Chain for Nutritional Security
A Replicable Success Model from India
by Dr Benhur Dayakar Rao, N G Malleshi, George A Annor, Jagannath Vishnu Patil
The development of successful value chains to revive demand for traditional cereals such as millets plays an important role in ensuring health and nutrition security in India. Value Chain in Millets for Health and Nutritional Security: A Replicable Success Model from India demonstrates value addition to millets from production to consumption, covering chapters on nutritional evaluation, on-farm cultivation, intervention in food processing, entrepreneurship development, commercialization and popularization and policy sensitization. This book outlines practical interventions to revive the demand for millets as a convenient and nutritive option for consumers, whilst presenting a reliable model that can be adapted for the development of other commodities.
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Genetics (non-medical)December 2001Managing Plant Genetic Diversity
by Edited by Johannes Engels, V R Ramanatha Rao, Anthony H D Brown, Michael Jackson
This book contains edited and revised papers from a conference on 'Science and Technology for Managing Plant Genetic Diversity in the 21st Century' held in Malaysia in June 2000, organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI). It includes keynote papers and some 40 additional ones, covering ten themes.The major scientific challenges to developing a global vision for the next century are identified and key research objectives are also discussed.
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MedicineJuly 2018Are We Pushing Animals to Their Biological Limits?
Welfare and Ethical Implications
by Temple Grandin, Martin Whiting
Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses. These changes may involve selective breeding for production, appearance traits, or competitive advantage in sport, transgenic animals or the use of pharmaceuticals or hormones to enhance production or performance. Changes may impose duties to care for these animals further and more intensely, or they may make the animal more robust. The book considers a wide range of animals, including farm animals, companion animals and laboratory animals. It reviews the ethics and welfare issues of animals that have been adapted for sport, as companions, in work, as ornaments, food sources, guarding and a whole host of other human functions. This important new book sparks debate and is essential reading for all those involved in animal welfare and ethics, including veterinarians, animal scientists, animal welfare scientists and ethologists.
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Agronomy & crop productionMay 1995Collecting Plant Genetic Diversity
Technical Guidelines
by Kevin Eatwell, Gidona Goodman, Emma Keeble, Anna Meredith, Joanna Hedley. Edited by Luigi Guarino, V R Ramanatha Rao, Robert Reid.
The case for conserving biodiversity is well established on economic as well as scientific grounds. Biodiversity is essential for sustainable development, adaptation to a changing environment and the continued functioning of the biosphere - indeed, to human survival itself. Plant breeders are dependent upon the availability of a large pool of diverse genetic material represented by local races and wild relatives, since in themselves modern crop varieties provide too restricted a genepool for further breeding. Without the ability to draw from a diverse genetic reservoir, further improvement may not be possible. It is therefore essential that guidance is available on collecting plant germplasm. In recent years it has become evident that there is no single publication that provides the prospective collector of plant germplasm with generic as well as specific, and theoretical as well as practical, information. It was to fill this gap that the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), together with FAO, IUCN and UNEP, cooperated to produce this book. The volume is a comprehensive reference work and is aimed at both new and experienced collectors as well as those with a general interest in plant genetics, breeding and biodiversity.
