itpbooks

African Gardens and Orchards: Growing vegetables and fruit
Hugues Dupriez and Philippe de Leener
Covers the principles and practice of growing vegetables and fruits in the tropics and subtropics. It describes the requirements of these crops, the techniques of cultivation, and full details of a wide range of fruits and vegetables.
ISBN 0333490762, (Macmillan), 1992, 334pp, £14.95,

Coconut
Gabriel de Taffin
Coconut covers the main types of cocnut palm, their origin, world distribution and characteristics. It examines important production factors such as climate and soils, selection, breeding and propagation, and establishing and managing a plantation. There is a useful section on pest and disease control accompanied by colour photographs. The methods of processing coconuts and its various products and markets are also well covered.
ISBN 0333574664, (Macmillan), 1997, 100pp, £7.50,

Controlling Crop Pests and Diseases
Rosalyn Rappaport
Covers pest and disease damage, causative agents, and methods of combatting them. As well as manual and cultural techniques, the book describes the knapsack sprayer and reveals the secrets of cheap or improvised ingredients.
ISBN 0333572165, (Macmillan), 1992, 106pp, £6.99,

Crop Protection Strategies for Subsistence Farmers
Miguel Altieri
'Top-down' approaches that rely on agrochemical inputs which are scarce, expensive, often unavailable when needed, and some of them ecologically toxic, have repeatedly failed to solve problems among small farmers in developing countries. Drawing on examples from Latin America, Africa and South-East Asia, this book describes crop protection strategies that rely on farmers' knowledge and participation, local resources and alternative low-input methods, as a sensitive approach to develop and implement pest management schemes adjusted to farmers' needs and their socio-economic and agroecological conditions.
ISBN 1853392057, (ITP), 1993, 198pp, £17.50,

Domestication, Production and Utilization of New Crops
J. (Ed.) Smartt

ISBN 0854326383, (International Centre for Underutilised Crops), 1997, , £20.00,

How to Grow a Balanced Diet: A Handbook for community workers
Ann Burgess, Grace Maina, Philip Harris and Stephanie Harris
A practical handbook designed to help community workers and local groups identify nutritional needs and grow the required food crops organically. The book contains: information on effective nutrition education and community extension; basic techniques of organic agriculture in non-technical language for those without agricultural trainingor background and lists more than 40 common food crops and vegetables from a wiode range of agro-climatic zones, with step-by-step instructions on how to grow and store them. The organic growing methods described are tailored to small-scale plots, drawing on local farming knowledge and using readily available resources without the need for expensive inputs.
ISBN 0950905062, (VSO Publications), 1998, 260pp, £12.00,

How To Grow Tomato and Peppers: Agrodok 17
CTA

ISBN 9072746090, (Agromisa), 1989, 56pp, £5.95,

Market Gardening
Raymond Kroll
Market Gardening introduces readers to vegetable production and guides them through the process of growing a profitable crop in tropical or subtropical climates. The book provides details for 59 specific vegetables including the choice of cultivars, their cultivation and management and even how to use them. There is also more general advice on climates and soils, the production of suitable planting material, cultural operations, the use of inputs, and harvesting and postharvesting operations. Market Gardening includes appendices which describe common pests and diseases and suggest methods of control.
ISBN 0333654498, (Macmillan), 1998, 178pp, £7.00,

Modern Coconut Management: Palm cultivation and products
edited by J.G. Ohler
Modern Coconut Management will provide the many small scale farmers and processors and others, whose livelihoods depend on coconuts, with a reference tool to the complex area of coconut management. The book combines a wealth of information that exists in this are with new research in: diseases and pests, breeding techniques to improve crop performance and the processing of coconut products. The book also deals with Coconut Based Farming Systems in which many aspects of the combination of coconuts with other crops and/or animals are disucssed. This reference work will be invaluable to anyone involved with the processing of coconuts and it's products.
ISBN 185339467X, (ITP), 1999, 554pp, £45.00,

Mushroom Cultivation
Peter Oei
Covers cultivation techniques for developing countries, the commercial potential of mushrooms, information on how to perform a feasibility study, and technical information on selection, growing and marketing.
ISBN 9070857367, (TOOL), 1991, 250pp, £26.50,

New Seed and Old Laws: Regulatory reform and the diversification of national seed systems
Robert Tripp
This book argues that the development and diversification of national seed systems, which is currently taking place, requires a thorough re-examination of public regulatory responsibilities. Featuring case studies from a wide range of countries, it presents both a summary of current experience and a set of practical suggestions about how regulatory reform can contribute to the growth of national seed systems. It is addressed to all those concerned with agricultural development, including policymakers, researchers, donors, voluntary agencies, and commercial seed producers.
ISBN 1853394157, (ITP), 1997, 228pp, £14.95,

Organic Cotton: From field to final product
Dorothy Myers and Sue Stolton
This book provides the first overview of organic cotton production, processing and consumption for everyone involved with cotton. Organic agriculture is gaining ground rapidly and organic cotton provides important environmental, economic and social benefits compared with conventional cotton production. In addition, policymakers, journalists, farmers' organizations, environmentalists, agronomists, those involved in commerce and industry and informed consumers will find much here of interest. Commercial organic cotton production is a new area of activity - barely ten years old - and is still very much 'work in progress'. Research and analysis is still at an early stage, but what written material exists is presented here with material commissioned specially for the book. The book is organized according to the stages in the 'cotton chain', from farmer to consumer, and covers each topic authoritatively with contributions from over 50 people in 20 countries. Illustrative case study material is particularly important and most of the current organic cotton projects worldwide are discussed.
ISBN 1853394645, (ITP), 1999, 272pp, £14.95,

Pesticides: Compounds, use and hazards: Agrodok 29
CTA

ISBN 9072746252, (Agromisa), 1989, 103pp, £5.95,

Protection of Stored Grains and Pulses: Agrodok 18
CTA

ISBN 9072746104, (Agromisa), 1991, 64pp, £5.95,

Slash/Mulch Systems: Sustainable methods for tropical agriculture
H. David Thurston
This informative overview and analysis of slash/mulch practices from around the world, particularly from the tropics, shows that they have generally shortened the necessary fallow periods and have restored degraded soils, thus increasing or stabilizing yields. These improvements, in turn, have allowed small-scale, resource-poor farmers to compete more effectively with larger commercial farmers and have enabled subsistence farmers to achieve food security.
ISBN 1853393401, (ITP), 1997, 176pp, £14.95,

Spice Plants
M. Borget
This book covers in detail the botany, origins, propagation, management, harvesting, storage, preparation and processing of a variety of spice plants including, among others, pepper, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, cardamom, cloves and nutmeg.
ISBN 0333574605, (Macmillan), 1993, 118pp, £7.00,

Tropical Field Crops
Ian MacDonald and John Low
Practical guidance for farmers and extension workers on large scale crops such as cassava, cocoa, cotton, groundnuts, maize, oil palm, pigeonpeas, pineapples, pyrethrum, rice, rubber, sesame, sisal, soya beans, sugar cane, tea and wheat.
ISBN 0237507927, (Evans Brothers), 1984, 120pp, £8.95,

TTropical Fruits
Nakasone & Paull

ISBN 0851992544, (CAB International), 1998, 438pp, £30.00,

Vegetable Garden in the Tropics: Agrodok 9
CTA

ISBN 9072746058, (Agromisa), 1994, 60pp, £5.95,