Agriculture category: 3369 books
by Hervé Bichat
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2012
L’Afrique est aujourd’hui en crise profonde. Pourtant, elle dispose d’un atout : ses millions d’agriculteurs. L’agriculture pourrait sauver l’Afrique, à condition que l’on donne la priorité au foncier et que l’on inscrive les politiques agricoles dans le long terme et dans une perspective régionale.
Agriculture et alimentation de l'Inde
Les vertes années (1947-2001)
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Bilan inédit d'un demi-siècle d'économie agricole et alimentaire en Inde. Analysant d'abord les grandes filières dans leurs dimensions agricoles, industrielles et commerciales, ce livre investit ensuite trois thèmes fondamentaux : pauvreté et sous-nutrition, dégradation de l'environnement naturel,...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2010
L’amélioration de la performance environnementale de l’agriculture est une priorité dans les pays de l’OCDE et dans de nombreux pays non membres de l’OCDE. Elle sera une préoccupation croissante à l’avenir étant donné les pressions qui s’exerceront pour nourrir une population mondiale...
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions-at the heart of slow money-represent the first steps...
The How to Raise Chickens
Everything You Need to Know, Updated & Revised
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, whether you have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook makes it easy for you to get started raising a healthy flock. Whichever comes first for you, the chicken or the egg, this book will show you what...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Sheep Farming for Meat and Wool contains practical, up-to-date information on sheep production and management for producers throughout temperate Australia. It is based on research and extension projects conducted over many years by the Department of Primary Industries and its predecessors and the University...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
The second volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust...
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not "natural," but a result of humanity's destructive...
by Albert Bates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilize, or even reverse these trends?The Biochar Solution explores the dual function of biochar as a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder....
Seedtime
On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Scott Chaskey—working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement—considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful...
Our Native Bees
North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
A New York Times 2018 Holiday Gift Selection
Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Trade facilitation of agri-food products can potentially reduce trade barriers, lower transaction costs, foster efficiency along the supply chains, and reduce poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). A comprehensive analysis of a range of policy options that influence trade behaviors of selected...
Cotton
From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
In the barbeque joints and plate lunch cafes off Memphis�s Front Street, one is easily reminded of the days when cotton was king, of a society of characters and cads; the big time and the small time; the rich and the richer; the hangers-on, anointed, powerful, and busted. Cotton created empires in...
Mississippi Harvest
Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by oxcart and water and later by rail....