Agriculture category: 3369 books
Rebuilding the Foodshed
How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
"Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. All this has made ""local...
by Lewis Cecil Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book contains a vintage handbook on farm economics, with information on different farming systems, machinery, marketing produce, buying equipment, keeping records, and much more. Although old, much of the information contained within this book is timeless and will be of considerable utility to...
Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power
Evolution and exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture – "best" through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "worst" as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers....
Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro
The Pavao-Pavaozinho and Cantagalo Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
One important change in the Brazilian policies is the Pacification. In recent years the government has invested in creating safer and more livable favelas. This generally starts with creating a UPP, a police post at a central location, from where the safety is maintained. Once this has been established...
How to Raise Chickens
Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in Future Farmers of America (FFA)–licensed How to Raise Chickens makes it easy for young readers and beginners to get started raising a healthy flock.
Whichever comes first for you,...
by Carroll E. Goering, Alan C. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The text was written for students in colleges of agriculture as well as others with an interest in engines and motor vehicles. Although the primary focus is on engines and farm tractors, many of the concepts also apply to automobiles, trucks, self-propelled farm machinery, lawn and garden tractors, and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This report contains a detailed assessment of the status and potential for the development of biofuels in Thailand and presents a country strategy for biofuels development consistent with the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. The findings were endorsed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good opportunity to review and...
Teaming with Fungi
The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
“Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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Vision Infinity for Food Security
Some Whys, Why Nots and Hows!
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
A new perspective on the global food security situation and highlights the need for seeking a common vision and implementing global planning to define the manner in which the human species will manage its food security. The basic question of ‘is there enough food’ is examined in general and then...
Global Food Insecurity
Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development Paradigm and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge...
Agricultural Investment and Productivity
Building Sustainability in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of the...
Agri-Culture
Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors' Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK 'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources' Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia 'Full of supporting evidence...
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty,...