A publicacao de "Melhorar a nutricao atraves das hortas familiares. Modulo de formacao destinado a Tecnicos de Extensao Agricola em Africa" tem como finalidade a formacao de tecnicos de extensao rural, de economia domestica, de nutricao, de saude e de outros agentes de desenvolvimento que trabalhem com familias e comunidades. As hortas familiares existem em muitas zonas humidas e sub-humidas de Africa. Essas hortas, tendo uma funda tradicao, constituem um enorme potencial de melhoria do aprovisionamento alimentar das familias, podendo ser usadas para cultivar diversas especies vegetais, frutos, cereais, plantas medicinais e especiarias, bem como para criar animais, incluindo peixes. Se devidamente tratada, mesmo uma pequena porcao de terra pode contribuir substancialmente para aumentar o nivel nutricional familiar, indo ao encontro das suas necessidades alimentares. Este modulo de formacao abrange a producao de alimentos e questoes nutricionais, fornecendo um vasto leque de materiais para a formacao de tecnicos de campo que desejem ajudar as familias e respectivas comunidades a melhorarem a producao alimentar e a aumentarem o valor nutritivo das suas dietas."

Completely updated and revised, this bestselling book continues to explain the growth and developmental processes involved in the formation of vegetables. Since the publication of the successful first edition significant discoveries, particularly in the area of molecular biology, have deepened and broadened our knowledge and understanding of these processes. This new edition brings the topic up-to-date and is presented over two sections: the first provides general knowledge on germination, transplanting, flowering, the effects of stress and modelling, whilst the second section details the physiology of specific crops or crop groups.

Presents powerful arguments against "Environmental Racism", "Incrementalism" and the "Impotence of Planning." Explores case studies of urban planning, county policies, residential development and more. Submits the authors recommendations for preserving the delicate balance of Floridas ecosystem.

This book presents the latest advances on the incorporation of sustainability in higher education. Different aspects such as the environmental, economic and social are here discussed. Several examples illustrating how sustainability in higher education is being pursued in different countries can be found in this book. Case studies include institutions from Kosovo, Brazil, Portugal, UK, Canada and USA.

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."