Agriculture category: 3369 books
One-Straw Revolutionary
The Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 – 2008), widely considered to be natural farming’s most influential practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most known for his bestselling book The One-Straw Revolution...
Restoration Agriculture
Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all...
Managing Risk in Agriculture
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
The sources of risk in agriculture are numerous and diverse, ranging from events related to climate and weather conditions to animal diseases; from changes in agriculture commodities prices to changes in fertilizer and other input prices; and from financial uncertainties to policy and regulatory risks....
by Carolyn Sachs, Mary Barbercheck, Kathryn Braiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture—they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. The authors draw on more than a decade of research to document and analyze the reasons for the transformation. As their sense of identity...
Eat Up
The Inside Scoop on Rooftop Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Soaring prices and concerns about chemical-laden fruits and vegetables increasingly drive us to grow our own healthy food close to home. In cities, however, vanishing ground space and contaminated soils spur farmers, activists, and restaurateurs to look to the skyline for a solution. The hunger for...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book is the second volume on this topic within the series. With unique properties, nanomaterials are rapidly finding novel applications in many fields such as food, medicine, agriculture and pollution. Such applications include to treat cancer, nanosensors to detect food contamination, nanomaterials...
The College on the Hill
New History of the Ontario Agricultural College, 1874 to 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
How has the Ontario Agricultural College contributed to Canadian education? What role has the college played in the development of agriculture since it was founded in 1874?
This history of Canada's oldest agricultural college revolves around these two questions. It shows that the college's...
by J Pratley, A Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The role of agriculture and its impact on Australia's relatively fragile environment is a continuing source of unresolved concern. In the past, agricultural producers and the environmental movement have adopted polarised views on how the Australian landscape should be managed. Some environmentalists...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This book is the third volume on Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture, published in the Sustainable Agriculture Reviews series. In this book we present ten chapters describing the synthesis and application of nanomaterials for health, food, agriculture and bioremediation.
Nanomaterials with...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 19
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book features articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge. It also proposes novel, environmentally friendly solutions that are based on integrated information from such fields as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economics and the social...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 28
Ecology for Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food. Major topics include ecosystem services biological pest control, conservation agriculture, drought stress, and soil biodiversity, carbon and fertilisation.
Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security
Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture and food security.
Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security explains clearly the...
by Youssef M. Hamada
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings. It provides unique and cutting-edge insights into the region’s agriculture, water resources, governance, poverty, productivity, upstream-downstream linkages, innovations, future plans and their implications.
Many international...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
The aim of this book is to bring together a series of contributions from experts in the field to cover the major aspects of the application of geostatistics in precision agriculture. The focus will not be on theory, although there is a need for some theory to set the methods in their appropriate context....