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Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature
Essays on Conservation-based Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
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....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
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...
Ramiran 98. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management Strategies for Organic Waste in Agriculture
Vol. 2: Proceedings of the poster presentations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines...
Born in the Country
A History of Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Throughout most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and still is the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully...
The Soil and Health
A Study of Organic Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard's The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic movement soon after its publication in 1945. The Soil and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers. The purpose is ultimately to accelerate efforts towards mitigating land-based climate change....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling...
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity
Lessons from Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on...
Ramiran 98. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management Strategies for Organic Waste in Agriculture
Vol. 1: Proceedings of the oral presentations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
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...
Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries 2009
Monitoring and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
This report is a unique source of up-to-date estimates of support to agriculture. It provides an overview of agricultural support in the OECD area, complemented by individual chapters on agricultural policy developments in all OECD countries. This edition finds that overall support to farmers in OECD...
Call of the Reed Warbler
A New Agriculture, A New Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
“Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book focuses on the use of microorganisms in relation to agriculture, aquaculture and related fields, ranging from biofertilizers to poultry production. The latest innovations are also included to provide insights into the unlimited potentials of microorganisms in these areas.
Individual...
World Agriculture and the Environment
A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
World Agriculture and the Environmpresents a unique assessmof agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions...