Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa

Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoaCocoa cultivation faces a number of significant challenges, including stagnating yields, a narrow genetic base, vulnerability to pests and diseases and environmental impact. This volume reviews how research is addressing these challenges in areas such as breeding and agronomy, understanding and managing the range of diseases affecting cocoa, as well as ways of measuring and improving the sustainability of cocoa cultivation.

artists peel away the cultural and psychological obstacles to building a resonant life

A Shoemaker a Gentleman and The Lovesick King

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France

A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice

that carried it to the top of the world rankings of universities – is suffering at the hand of cuts in government funding and a tide of political intervention

Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don’t see is a real gift

remarkably enough

A compelling and complex picture at a pivotal moment for America’s housing future

while also providing a ready curriculum for teachers of Advanced Arabic

Originally published in 1984

After looking at the importance of soil microorganisms

and the story of their struggle against poverty and sickness culminates in the Colonel's defiant refusal to part with his cherished fighting cock