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Assessing the Impact of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
on Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study of the Selected
Communities in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan, Gauteng
Province, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Jeanette Seko, Eddie Bain, and Phokele Maponya
10 Tropical Biological Natural Resource Management Through
Integrated Bio-Cycles Farming System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Cahyono Agus, Meilania Nugraheni, Ambar Pertiwiningrum,
Margaretha Arnita Wuri, Nur Aini Iswati Hasanah, Catur Sugiyanto,
and Enggal Primananda
11 Biopesticides for Pest Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Meenatchi Rajamani and Aditi Negi
12 Renewable Energy for a Low-Carbon Future: Policy
Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Shiv Prasad, V. Venkatramanan, and Anoop Singh
13 TNAU Energy Soft 2016: An Efficient Energy Audit Tool
to Identify Energy Saving Technologies for Sustainable
Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Ga. Dheebakaran, D. Jegadeeswari, SP. Ramanathan,
and S. Kokilavani
14 Mechanism for Improving the Sustainability of Homestead Food
Gardens in the Gauteng Province, South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Phokele Maponya, Sonja L. Venter, Christiaan Philippus Du Plooy,
Dean Oelofse, Erika Van Den Heever, Charles Manyaga,
Ogaisitse Nyirenda, Phumzile Masuku, and Maritz Mahlangu
15 Assessment of Potassium Nutrient Balance in Agricultural Farming
System: A Pathway to Sustainable Production of Crops . . . . . . . . . 325
R. Paramasivam, P. Paramasivam, M. Umanath,
and R. Balasubramanian
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