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Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy

by Richard Olson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018

Find an interdiscliplinary view of sustainable agriculture that emphasizes the potential contributions of ecology to agricultural sustainability in this groundbreaking book. Integrating Sustainable Agriculture, Ecology, and Environmental Policy explores how ecological knowledge, applied as part of...

Application of New Genetic Technologies to Animal Breeding

Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) 25-28 September 2005

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005

The 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) gathers together scientists, extension workers, producers and industry personnel to review developments in the application of new technologies to animal breeding. Conference presentations include...

Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security

by P. Parvatha Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014

Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security comprehensively deals with important aspects of climate resilient agriculture for food security using adaptation and mitigation measures. Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food...

Principles of Cloning

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

* Principles of Cloning, Second Edition* is the fully revised edition of the authoritative book on the science of cloning. The book presents the basic biological mechanisms of how cloning works and progresses to discuss current and potential applications in basic biology, agriculture, biotechnology,...

Environmental Cost and Face of Agriculture in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Fostering Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change

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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014

This volume presents the outcome of an Agriculture Workshop organized by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge (GRCC) and held at Cambridge University, UK during the Gulf Research Meeting 11-14 July 2012. Co-directed by the editors, the workshop, entitled “Environmental Cost and Changing Face of Agriculture...

Can agriculture be sustainable in its present industrial and high tech form or must it 'return to the past'?

by Benjamin Toric
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007

Scientific Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: Distinctio, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, language: English, abstract: There are many environmental and social costs associated with conventional agriculture or what may be termed as industrial or high tech agriculture....

Nutrient Requirements of Domesticated Ruminants

by Primary Industries Standing Committee
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...

Agriculture and Food in the 21 st Century

Economic, Environmental and Social Challenges- Festschrift on the Occasion of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michael Schmitz 65 th Birthday

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

This Festschrift in honour of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michael Schmitz covers theoretical as well as empirical works on challenges prevailing in the food and agricultural sector. Discussions of conflicts between social and ecological requests of citizens and market outcomes are provided. The contributors...

The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents

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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011

The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents is a single volume, comprehensive book sanctioned by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM), covering the rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil and other rodents often used in research. This well-illustrated reference...

Sustainable Agriculture

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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009

Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation...

Conservation Agriculture

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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

Conservation agriculture—consisting of four components including permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations and integrated weed management—is considered the principal pathway to sustainable agriculture and the conservation of natural resources and the environment....

Pollination Services to Agriculture

Sustaining and enhancing a key ecosystem service

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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016

It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated. At the same time, the alarming collapse in populations of bees and other pollinators has highlighted the urgency of addressing this issue. This book focuses on the specific measures and practices...

Resilient Agriculture

Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

by Laura Lengnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought, and flooding create the most obvious damage, but hot summer nights, warmer winters, longer growing seasons, and other environmental changes have...

Becoming Salmon

Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish

by Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015