|
|
 |
AGRICULTURE
Agricultural Education for Development in the Middle East
Edited by
John Ryan and Adib T. Saad
This volume
contains the proceedings of a conference on the role of
agricultural education in the development of the Middle
East, sponsored and hosted by the American
University of Beirut in April 1979. The conference brought
together people involved not only in agriculture and rural
development, but also higher education, the provider of
trained manpower.
In twenty
papers, agriculture, nutrition and education specialists
discuss basic aspects of the problems involved, and present
possible solutions and recommendations for meeting the
challenges of the future through enlightened educational
programs directed to the needs of the people in the regions
involved.
English, 1980, 178 pages, hardcover, $10.
|
|
Insects and Mites Injurious to Crops in
Middle Eastern Countries
by Abdul Mun'im Talhouk Second Edition
(2003)
This revised second edition is one of the
best illustrated guides available for the
prevention, identification, monitoring, and
management of pests injurious to crops in
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi
Arabia. It is also a useful reference and
teaching tool, benefiting students of Middle
Eastern agriculture and entomology. It
provides updated information on the
comprehensive morphology, distribution, and
biology of more than 300 significant pest
species of the orders Acarina, Thysanoptera,
Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera,
Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera,
respectively.
About the Author
Abdul Mun'im Talhouk discovered his lifelong
fascination with insects in the 1930s while
working on his father's orchard in the
mountains of Lebanon. He received his BS in
1948 and his MS in 1955 from the American
University of Beirut, and his PhD from the
University of Munich in 1960. In the course
of his career he discovered numerous insect
and mite species in Lebanon, Syria and Saudi
Arabia, several of which bear his name. The
author of numerous scholarly publications,
Professor Talhouk taught at AUB from 1955 to
1985. He served as research entomologist
with the Saudi Arabian Ministry of
Agriculture from 1976 until his retirement
in 1986.
English, 2002 (2nd edition, revised and
enlarged), 269 pages, bibliography, 15
color plates, appendix, 2 indexes,
hardcover, $48
ISBN 9953-9011-9-8
|
|
|
|
Irrigation in Lebanon:
Research, Practices and Potential
 |
Muin
Baasiri and John Ryan
The volume is an
overview of all published material up to the mid-1980s
pertinent to water use for irrigation in Lebanon. The
chapters successively deal with such subjects as the
importance of irrigation in Lebanon and the Middle
East; an overview of the various irrigation systems in
use, both traditional and modern; statistics and
figures on Lebanon's rainfall, temperature and
hydrogeology; surface and groundwater sources; a
description of irrigation and drainage projects; an
exhaustive review of water use studies in Lebanon and
laws and customs regarding water use in the region. It
concludes with recommendations and guidelines regarding
water use for planners, researchers, educators and
farmers.
Its importance lies in
bringing together, in concise and readable form, with
an Arabic summary, many disparate and obscure sources
of information regarding this vital resource. With
increasing pressures on water resources, this book will
continue to be of great interest.
English with Arabic
summary, 1986, 165 pages, index, soft cover, $7. |
Man, Food and Agriculture
in the Middle East
Edited by Thomas Stickley,
Joseph A. Asmar, Abdur-Rahman Saghir, Nicholas Atallah, and
Peter L. Pellett
In this collection of
symposium papers,
educators, researchers, sociologists, economists,
nutritionists, and others actively involved with the
problems of food production in the region were brought
together to take an inventory of techniques used in
different parts of the world for improving the quantity and
quality of food for man, and to compare and contrast these
with work then current in the Middle East. The fifty
articles are grouped under five sections: agricultural
economics, animal production and protection, soil and
irrigation, crop production and protection, and food
technology and nutrition.
English, 1969, 692 pages,
soft cover, $10.
|
