Agriculture category: 3369 books
Organic Futures
The Case for Organic Farming
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Presenting an overwhelming argument for replacing modern farming methods with organic techniques, this book explores the history, politics, and practicalities of organic farming. Adrian Myers shows how the current techniques of agriculture and horticulture based on chemical fertilizers, which inevitably...
by Steve Finch, Alison Samuel, Gerry P. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Increased yields, markets, and profitability have led to changes in crop husbandry. Since its first publication in 1966, revised editions of Lockhart & Wiseman's Crop Husbandry Including Grassland have upheld and increased the book's good reputation. This ninth edition maintains its status as...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Meeting the world’s food security challenge will require a multi-national, collaborative effort to integrate the best research from science, engineering and socioeconomics so that technological advances can bring benefits where they are most needed. The present book covers the effect of major environmental...
by Hugh Clout
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-generated cartography, transforms the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture in the mid-1830s....
Biochar in European Soils and Agriculture
Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This user-friendly book introduces biochar to potential users in the professional sphere. It de-mystifies the scientific, engineering and managerial issues surrounding biochar for the benefit of audiences including policy makers, landowners and farmers, land use, agricultural and environmental managers...
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
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...
by Donald L. Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
This volume in Advances in Agronomy contains seven outstanding reviews that discuss cutting edge developments in the crop and soil sciences. Chapter 1 addresses desertification and its relation to climate change. Chapter 2 discusses fate and transport of viruses in porous media. Chapter 3 is a comprehensive...
Sea Energy Agriculture
Nature's Ideal Trace Element Blend for Farm, Livestock, Humans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Reprinted by popular demand! Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals — especially trace elements — to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids — mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2002
The turn of the millennium from the twentieth to the twenty-first century provides an occasion to review our understanding of a biological process, biological nitrogen fixation, that is of prime importance for the continued survival of mankind. This process has provided a basis for maintaining soil...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Agroecology not only encompasses aspects of ecology, but the ecology of sustainable food production systems, and related societal and cultural values. To provide effective communication regarding status and advances in this field, connections must be established with many disciplines such as sociology,...
Advancing Food Integrity
GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Key features:
Presents summaries of key points after each chapter and includes color graphs to visualize the big-picture concepts
Demonstrates how urban rooftop farms (URFs) can contribute to city greening and climate change mitigation worldwide while providing fresh locally-sourced...
Nanotechnology and Plant Sciences
Nanoparticles and Their Impact on Plants
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This book presents a holistic view of the complex and dynamic responses of plants to nanoparticles, the signal transduction mechanisms involved, and the regulation of gene expression. Further, it addresses the phytosynthesis of nanoparticles, the role of nanoparticles in the antioxidant systems of...
by Homer M. LeBaron
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Over the past 50 years, triazines have made a great impact on agriculture and world hunger by assisting in the development of new farming methods, providing greater farming and land use capabilities, and increasing crop yields. Triazines are registered in over 80 countries and save billions of dollars...