Agriculture category: 3369 books
Rebirth of the Small Family Farm
A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This is a concise, yet complete handbook for starting a successful organic farm based on the community-supported agriculture concept. Written for farmers and non-farmers alike, the book illustrates how “two middle-aged novices” made a decent living on less than two acres of land. The model explained...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive overview of new and emerging nanotechnologies. It includes aspects of nanoparticle monitoring, toxicity, and public perception, and covers applications that address both crop growing and treatment of agricultural wastewater. Topics include nanoagrochemicals (nanofertilizers,...
Meat
A Benign Extravagance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Meat: A Benign Extravagance is an exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animal flesh. It lays out in detail the reasons why we must decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves and explores how different...
Fruitful Labor
The Ecology, Economy, and Practice of a Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
"Instead of taking us through his work, season by season, crop by crop--the narrative approach--Madison explores his farm and its methods analytically, from many overlapping angles. The result is profoundly interesting." -- The New York Review of Books
As the average age of America’s...
by Pascal Bergeret, Uno Svedin, Christian Huyghe
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book focuses on innovation in the agri-food system and the new paradigm drawn by bioeconomic approaches and principles. It draws on contributions presented during the 29th EURAGRI annual conference held in Luxemburg (September 2015) as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI....
by David R. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
**Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
“A call to action that underscores a common goal: to change the world from the ground up.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate**
For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World’s Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource...
Foodopoly
The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“A meticulously researched tour de force” on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers’ markets to find fixes (Publishers Weekly).
Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported...
Organic Futures
Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
An exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realities In recent years, the popularity of organically grown produce has exploded. In 2014, organic fruits and vegetables accounted for 12% of all produce sales...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any...
The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus
Lessons from India for Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required. This "nexus" is now the focus of major attention by researchers, policy-makers...
The Violence of the Green Revolution
Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement -- unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes...
by Midwest Journal Press, Cyril G. Hopkins, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
These two books explain each other.
The first is a fictional account, based on the science behind agriculture.
The second is a shortened explanation of that science.
When you read his fiction-based-on-fact, you can get moved by the drama, but also get educated meanwhile.
Even...