Agriculture category: 3369 books
Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes
Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has...
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture
Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 15
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The land degradation due to salinity and waterlogging is a global phenomenon, afflicting about one billion hectares within the sovereign borders of at least 75 countries. Besides staring at the food security, it has far reaching and unacceptable socio-economic consequences since a large proportion...
by P. Parvatha Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book outlines a new paradigm, “Agro-ecological Intensification of Crop Protection”, which reduces negative impacts on the environment and enhances the provision of ecosystem services. It discusses the use of ecologically based management strategies to increase the sustainability of agricultural...
Farming, Famine and Plague
The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on...
Perspectives for Agronomy
Adopting Ecological Principles and Managing Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue...
From the Farm to the Table
What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give...
Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions
Best Practices in Developing Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the eve of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in autumn 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recommended five specific areas as focal points of discussion for the global forum: Water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity....
Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons
Challenges in International Law and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...
Feeding a Hungry Planet
Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
It is well known that the impacts of climate change are tangible and hence there can be no debate about the need for appropriate adaptation measures, on a priority basis. However, it is equally important to recognize the fact that adaptation measures actually represent a dynamic synthesis of interventions...
Resilient Asia
Fusion of Traditional and Modern Systems for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book summarizes three years of extensive research conducted in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam as part of the CECAR – Asia project, which was intended to enhance resilience to climate and ecosystem changes by developing mosaic systems to strengthen resilience of bio-production systems through...