Agriculture category: 3369 books

Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without...

Agricultural drones are expected to revolutionize the way we conduct agronomic procedures and maintain natural vegetation on earth. This book explores the increasing importance of the role of aerial robots in managing agricultural farms and natural resources. Agricultural Drones: A Peaceful Pursuit...

« L'opinion publique préfère toujours un mensonge simple à une vérité complexe ». Constatant que la phrase d’Alexis de Tocqueville s’applique tout particulièrement aux plantes génétiquement modifiées (PGM), l’Académie d’agriculture de France a souhaité apporter des points de vue...

This book mainly presents the current state of knowledge on the use of of Silicon (Si)  in agriculture, including plants, soils and fertilizers. At the same time, it discusses the future interdisciplinary research that will be needed to further our knowledge and potential applications of Si in agriculture...

En 2009, le soutien accordé aux producteurs des pays de l’OCDE, représentait 22 % de l’ensemble des recettes agricoles brutes (ESP en %). Cela représente une légère hausse par rapport aux 21 % enregistrés en 2008, et un retour au niveau de 2007. C’est la première augmentation du niveau...

Comment et pourquoi en France au début du XXIe siècle, l’agriculture d’entreprise coexiste-t-elle avec une agriculture durable ? Estelle Deléage analyse les principales transformations de l'agriculture depuis la seconde guerre mondiale. Elle montre que certains agriculteurs continuent à inventer...

The purpose of this book is to help early career professionals in agriculture and natural resources write their research papers for high-quality journals and present their results properly at professional meetings. Different fields have different conventions for writing style such that the authors...

An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.   Wes Jackson, “a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his...

Water Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture in Semiarid Environment: Tools, Strategies and Challenges for Woody Crops explores the complex relationship between water scarcity and climate change, agricultural water-use efficiency, crop-water stress management and modeling water scarcity in woody crops....

Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will...

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. Agricultural lands in rural areas are being purchased for development....

This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both Sustainable Development Goal 2, to eliminate hunger by 2030, and Sustainable Development...

This edition is a collection in two volumes of the presentations at the 8th international conference of an FAO network on recycling agricultural, municipal and industrial waste that was held in Rennes, France, from 26th to 29th May 1998. The theme of the conference was management strategies for organic...

Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand what is happening in the fields that we see as we drive through...