Agriculture category: 3369 books
by Britannica Educational Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
This book chronicles how since the Neolithic era of the Stone Age, agricultural tools evolved from pointed digging sticks to electron microscopes. Weeds evolved into wheat, carrots, and more as humans selected and designed foods. People farmed sustainably since the last Ice Age with fire and fish...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Plant stresses are serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields accounting for more crop productivity losses than any other factor in rainfed agriculture. Post-harvest losses mean surplus crops do not reach market, affecting the livelihoods of farming families, and too often these families...
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam�s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam�s turbulent past,...
Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping
Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling...
by Primary Industries Standing Committee
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Nutrient Requirements of Domesticated Ruminants draws on the most up-to-date research on the energy, protein, mineral, vitamin and water requirements of beef and dairy cattle, sheep and goats. It defines the responses of animals, in weight change, milk production and wool growth, to quantitative and...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains a detailed treatise on artificial grasses, including information on clovers, rye-grass, tares, and other types of artificial grasses. This text discusses the benefits, drawbacks, and uses of a variety of artificial grasses, written in clear language and including helpful tables...
What is Biodynamic Wine?
The Quality, the Taste, the Terroir
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Nicolas Joly is responsible for producing some of the finest and most highly esteemed wines of France at his CoulÉe de Serrant vineyard. Practising the biodynamic method of agriculture - sometimes referred to as ‘premium organic’ - he is at the forefront of a movement to return to the concept...
Advancing Biological Farming
Practicing Mineralized, Balanced Agriculture to Improve Soil & Crops
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
One of the leading authorities on biological farming, Gary Zimmer is recognized for improving farming by restoring soils. Arguing that an optimally productive soil contains a balance of inorganic minerals, organic materials and living organisms, he relies less on modern improvements than on "the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This unique ebook compilation, formatted for flowing-text reading, provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of biogas, methane, farm recovery processes, manure digesters and processing, the AgSTAR program, landfill methane gas, and the Global Methane Initiative.
AgSTAR is focused on livestock...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The humid highlands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are characterized by high population densities and require intensification. The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA) has set up a research for development platform in various mandate areas in DR Congo, Burundi,...
by FrancisJ. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Advances in Soil and Water Conservation provides an in-depth, scholarly treatment of the most important developments and influences shaping soil and water conservation in the last 50 years. The book addresses the technological developments of erosion processes, methods for their control, policy and...
Vexing Nature?
On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods. Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods manipulated at the molecular level to enhance their value to farmers and consumers. This book is a collection of essays on the ethical dimensions...
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Since they were introduced to the market in the late 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage...