Pelestarian, perlindungan, dan promosi Sumber Daya Genetik Tanaman (SDG), Pengetahuan Tradisional (TK), inovasi, dan praktik-praktik dari masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat merupakan kunci penting bagi pembangunan suatu negara. Kekayaan PGR dan TK memainkan peran penting dalam perawatan kesehatan, ketahanan pangan, budaya, agama, identitas, lingkungan, pembangunan berkelanjutan, dan perdagang…
Pemuliaan tanaman yang mulai bekerja pada tahun 2015 akan mendekati akhir karir mereka pada tahun 2050. Kedua tahun itu sangat penting. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa menetapkan delapan Tujuan Pembangunan Milenium yang ambisius untuk dicapai pada tahun 2015, dari garis dasar tahun 1990. Salah satunya mengurangi separuh tingkat kemiskinan ekstrim dan termasuk mengurangi separuh proporsi orang yang m…
Ada peningkatan hasil panen yang signifikan sejak tahun 1950-an, yang membuat makanan lebih murah dan lebih terjangkau. Namun, produksi tanaman dunia harus meningkat dalam tiga setengah dekade ke depan untuk memberi makan populasi yang terus bertambah. Itu harus terjadi sebagian besar di tanah yang sudah ditanami. Pemuliaan tanaman, subjek buku ini, menyediakan sarana untuk mengatasi tantangan …
This first monograph on WWI dramatic literature closes one of the last research desiderata of the German literature on the First World War. The author opens up a hitherto unknown corpus of texts and identifies the most important discourses represented in these WWI plays. Furthermore, he embeds the discourses in contemporary public debates and identifies them in more famous dramatic works of the…
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of …
This book presents a series of lectures on three of the best known examples of free discontinuity problems: the Mumford-Shah model for image segmentation, a variational model for the epitaxial growth of thin films, and the sharp interface limit of the Ohta-Kawasaki model for pattern formation in dyblock copolymers.
This open access book discusses service design capabilities in innovation processes, and provides a framework that guides design students, practitioners and researchers towards a better understanding of operational aspects of service design processes. More specifically, it revisits service designers’ capabilities in light of the new roles that have opened up in innovation processes on differe…
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
"In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continentâ…
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