grey literature
natural resource management
sustainable agriculture
bibliographic database
non-conventional literature
socioeconomic impact assessment
survey and maps
tropical America
agroecosystems
livestock production
The database covers the broad subject areas of conservation of natural resources and sustainable agriculture, which are represented in a diversity of themes and disciplines that include ,s oil resources: soil degradation, recovery, and fertility; deforestation; erosion; genetic resources: germplasm, gene banks, varieties, cultivars, biodiversity, production systems: agroforestry, agropastoral, and silvipastoral systems; cropping systems: rotational cropping, alley cropping, mixed cropping, associated cropping, shifting cultivation; crop protection: pest and disease control, integrated pest management, varietal resistance; environmental and socioeconomic impact of agriculture: policies, legislation, trade, technology adoption; characterization of ecosystems: classification of soils, climate, vegetation, land use; tropical crops.
