Agriculture category: 3369 books
ESSAIS D'ELECTROCULTURE (Partie 3)
DE LA FERTILISATION ÉLECTRIQUE DES PLANTES (Tome 2) - Année 1910
Language: French
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Ce livre est la 3e partie des « *Essais d'électroculture *» (ou tome 2 de « *De la Fertilisation des plantes* ») du Lieutenant Fernand Basty.
Voici ce qu'écrivait E. Paque à ce sujet en 1911 dans le Bulletin de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique :
« Au dire des...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The teaching modules focus on defining forests, investigating their role in the water cycle, exploring some of their products and introducing students to sustainable forest management.
The teaching draws inspiration from internationally recognized pedagogical approaches such as the inquiry...
by Pierre Davet
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Premier ouvrage de synthèse sur l'écologie microbienne du sol paru en français, ce livre montre quelles relations étroites existent entre l'activité des micro-organismes et la production végétale : présentation des composantes physico-chimiques et biologiques du milieu sol ; interactions des...
by Claude Cheverry
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Intégrant des contributions issues de différentes disciplines (science du sol, géomorphologie, hydrologie, agronomie et géochimie), cet ouvrage est consacré à l'étude d'un bassin versant en zone d'élevage intensif. Il analyse le rôle du milieu dans le transfert des polluants, principalement...
L'eau dans l'espace rural
Production végétale et qualité de l'eau
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1997
L'agriculture de demain devra prendre en compte une double préoccupation : valoriser au mieux la ressource en eau et en maintenir la qualité. Cet ouvrage présente les connaissances fondamentales sur les relations eau-plante, la régulation de ces échanges, le fonctionnement du système racinaire,...
Recyclage de déchets organiques en agriculture
Effets agronomiques et environnementaux de leur épandage
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Cet ouvrage présente un panorama des ressources et de l’usage des matières fertilisantes d’origine résiduaire en contexte français, et donne des clefs pour instruire la question de leur substitution aux engrais minéraux. Il fait le point sur les impacts agronomiques, environnementaux et socio-économiques...
Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems
Current Challenges and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystemsexplains the causative factors of climate change related to agriculture, soil and plants, and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process.
Agricultural ecosystems include factors from the surrounding areas where agriculture experiences direct...
by Suresh Kumar, Dr. Satish Kumar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Students are familiar with the theoretical aspects of the subjects but often struggle to interpret the same in practice due to lack of instrumental operating knowledge. Instrumental Techniques in Agriculture is written to bring into focus the practical use of instruments, explain their function, methods...
Crop Biotechnology
Genetic Modification and Genome Editing
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes, coupled with the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants, eventually led to the commercialisation...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 30
Environmental Impact of Land Use Change in Agricultural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The originality of this book is to review and characterize the current body of scientific publications that describe the complete causal sequence from reorganization of agricultural production to land use changes (LUC) and the resulting environmental impacts. The chapters examine both the range of...
Tales from an Itinerant Agronomist
Learning from people, places and writings for a more equitable, systemic and sustainable world
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
An autobiographical, historical account of the author’s agricultural and rural development experiences.
Includes analyses of historical and socio-political contexts of different countries and institutions.
The text is in a relaxed, not strictly academic, style which facilitates easy...
Informal Urban Agriculture
The Secret Lives of Guerrilla Gardeners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as “guerrilla gardeners”. The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands...
by Sylvie Brunel
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Comment nourrir demain le monde alors que l’humanité continue de s’accroître, qu’elle s’urbanise et s’enrichit, et qu’il faut protéger la planète ?
Les agriculteurs tiennent notre avenir entre leurs mains. Ils occupent deux tiers des terres habitées et maîtrisent toutes les...
by Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Les pays ont aussi besoin de données sur d’autres aspects de la gestion durable des forêts, notamment sur le rôle des forêts dans la conservation de la biodiversité et sur leur apport d’autres services écosystémiques. Plus récemment, les informations sur les variations de stocks de carbone,...