Origin and History of Buckwheat -- Cultivation and Agronomic practices of Buckwheat -- Journey of Buckwheat to functional food sector -- Buckwheat: A Future crop to combat abiotic stress -- Reasons for declining Buckwheat Production -- Strategies for Buckwheat crop improvement using modern...

Climate Variability and the Global Harvest provides a comprehensive coverage of the interactions between the major climate oscillations - especially the El Niño -Southern Oscillation - and climate change, and agriculture. It describes climate system processes, effects of the major oscillations...

Climate variability in the context of climate change: El Niño and other oscillations -- Impacts of El Niño-La Niña cycles; systems and sectors -- Links to agroecosystems: processes and productivity -- Recent El Niños and their manifestations: evolving understanding -- Analysis of El Niño...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: Dust to Dust: An Age Beyond Extremes -- Two: The First Global Environmental Problem -- Three: Imperialism, White Settler Colonialism, and the Ecological Rift -- Four: The White Man's Burden, Soil...