Agriculture category: 3369 books
The Essential Agrarian Reader
The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
With a Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver. A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote...
The Permaculture Market Garden
A Visual Guide to a Profitable Whole-Systems Farm Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Permaculture tends to be very much in the domain of home gardeners and property owners. But what if we could take it all a step further, and merge the fields of permaculture and market gardening?
In The Permaculture Market Garden, author Zach Loeks brings together his passion for sustainable...
What is Land For?
The Food, Fuel and Climate Change Debate
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land. Quite suddenly all this has changed as a consequence of rapidly...
It's a Long Road to a Tomato
Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A new edition of longtime farmer Keith Stewart’s deeply personal and highly acclaimed book on the hows and whys of running a small organic farm in 21st century America—updated with five new essays, a foreword by Deborah Madison, and gorgeous new woodcuts by Flavia Bacarella
Keith Stewart,...
Biofuel Cropping Systems
Carbon, Land and Food
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Choosing appropriate practices and policies for biofuel production requires an understanding of how soils, climate, farm types, infrastructure, markets and social organisation affect the establishment and performance of these crops. The book highlights land use dynamics, cultivation practices related...
by Parmeshwar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The effect of organic farming has been a subject of interest for researchers. Theory suggests that organic farming practices, which exclude the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, would be beneficial for biodiversity, and this has proven true. Spanning all associated species, there is an...
by Parmeshwar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fibre, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report contains a detailed assessment of the status and potential for the development of biofuels in Cambodia and presents a country strategy for biofuels development consistent with the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. The findings were endorsed...
Demand in the Desert
Mongolia's Water-Energy-Mining Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Mongolia's mining-based economic development and the sustainability of its urban economies depend on both water and energy. The examination of the water energy nexus in two river basins in Mongolia shows that water availability is the binding constraint as energy facilities, mining operations, agriculture,...
by Peter Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This antique book contains a detailed guide on modes of heating in horticulture and agriculture, with information on green-houses, glass and glazing, flues, steam, hot beds, and much more. Clear and concise, and written in simple, easy-to-follow language, this antiquarian text constitutes the perfect...
by Midwest Journal Press, Bolton Hall, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
By thought and courage, we can help ourselves to own a home, surrounded by acres of fruit and vegetables, flowers and poultry, and learn the best methods so as to insure success.
In olden times any one could "farm," but it is necessary to-day to teach people to obtain a livelihood...
Living at Nature's Pace
Farming and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This report contains a detailed assessment of the status and potential for the development of biofuels in Myanmar and presents a country strategy for biofuels development consistent with the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. The findings were endorsed at...
The Biodynamic Farm
Agriculture in Service of the Earth and Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Bankrupt farmers, erosion of topsoil, and poor food quality owing to pesticides, hormones, and other additivesthese are the well-known realities of the modern crisis in farming. This problem is the outcome of the limited vision of conventional methods and a system that focuses exclusively on quick results...