Agriculture category: 3369 books
by Iván Francisco García-Tejero, Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo, José Luis Muriel-Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in many parts of the world are biologically, economically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation...
The World of Organic Agriculture
Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics...
Advances in Information and Communication Technologies for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
Proceedings of the International Conference of ICT for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change (AACC'17), November 22-24, 2017, Popayán, Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book presents novel communication technology solutions to address the effects of climate change and climate variability on agriculture, with a particular focus on those that increase agricultural production. It discusses decision support and early warning systems for agriculture; information...
Farmers Perception of Climate Change and Conservation Agriculture in Western Ethiopia
The case of Guto Gida and Sasiga districts
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: A, Wollega University, language: English, abstract: Climate is a primary determinant of agricultural productivity. Ethiopia, one of the developing countries, is facing serious natural resource degradation problems. Adaptation...
Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture
Emerging Approaches and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: Emerging Approaches and Strategies is an outstanding collection of current research that integrates basic and advanced concepts of agricultural biotechnology with future development prospects. Using biotechnology with sustainable agriculture effectively contributes...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33
Climate Impact on Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Written by leading global experts, including pioneers in the field, the four-volume set on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation, Second Edition, reviews existing state-of- the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of hyperspectral...
The Carbon Farming Solution
A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution
Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset...
The Ultimate Guide to Urban Farming
Sustainable Living in Your Home, Community, and Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
How to maximize your food production in an urban environment.
The idea of bringing agriculture into the city has been promoted by many on both sides of the political fence: proponents of sustainability and prevention of climate change as well as those who worry about government and social instability....
by Michael Carolan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field.
The book begins with the recent development of agriculture under capitalism and neo-liberal regimes, and the transformation...
Agriculture and Public Goods
The Role of Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The debate on the future orientation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is increasingly shaped by the role of agriculture in providing public goods, and there is a broad consensus that this approach will be particularly relevant in legitimating the policy intervention in agriculture in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Agriculture and Energy consists of the proceedings of a conference held at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, on June 17-19, 1976. The conference aims to bring together a broad spectrum of researchers concerned with obtaining a better understanding of the energy consumption by agriculture....
Balancing on a Planet
The Future of Food and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book is an interdisciplinary primer on critical thinking and effective action for the future of our global agrifood system, based on an understanding of the system’s biological and sociocultural roots. Key components of the book are a thorough analysis of the assumptions underlying different...