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Agricultural biotechnology-based (green) enterprise development for sustainable rural livelihoods and economic growth : opportunities with biofuel in selected Asian economies
(UN.ESCAP, 2007-05)
Biofuels have a long history of use in different parts of the world but they were always found to be expensive and inconsistent in their quality and supply. In the mean time, crude oil as an option is falling out of favour ...
Mechanization of agriculture : market dynamics in China, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand
(Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization, 2020-11)
The Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (CSAM) is a regional institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The need for a market study was voiced ...
Agricultural engineering in support of the Kyoto Protocol : the clean development mechanism for conservation agriculture
(United Nations, 2013)
APCAEM conducts the study of the potential of CDM for Conservation Agriculture (CA). This paper provides convincing evidence of CA developments. It attempts to evaluate the comparative greenhouse impact of traditional and ...
Recent developments in biogas technology for poverty reduction and sustainable development
(UN.ESCAP, 2007-11)
Biogas is a proven and widely-used source of energy in Asia. There has been a renewed interest in biogas owing to rising concerns over the greenhouse effect, high price of fossil fuels, and other environmental and health ...
Trade and investment policies on mechanisation of agriculture : case studies of selected countries of the Regional Council of Agriculture Machinery Associations in Asia and Pacific (ReCAMA)
(United Nations, 2019)
<p>The idea for this study originated during the annual Member Meeting of the Regional Council for Agriculture Machinery Associations in Asia and the Pacific (ReCAMA), when the members expressed their desire to understand ...