Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist...
Services écosystémiques et protection des sols
Analyses juridiques et éclairages agronomiques
Language: French
Release Date: February 21, 2018
En droit, le sol n’est pas appréhendé dans son entièreté, comme un ensemble complexe aux fonctions diverses. Dès lors, sa protection demeure lacunaire.
Rédigé dans le cadre du programme de recherche « Travail du sol, services écosystémiques et compensation. Aspects agronomiques et juridiques...
Agriculture et alimentation durables
Trois enjeux dans la filière céréales
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Cet ouvrage explore trois grands enjeux des céréales destinées à l’alimentation humaine, notamment du blé : teneur en protéines, qualité sanitaire des récoltes et des produits céréaliers, valeur nutritionnelle des aliments. Des stratégies sont présentées pour concilier les diverses...
Les clés des champs
L'agriculture en questions
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Agriculture biologique, sécurité alimentaire mondiale, OGM, qualité des aliments, pollutions, agrocarburants... Les évolutions de l'agriculture et les enjeux auxquels elle doit répondre donnent matière à de nombreuses interrogations. Le Grenelle de l'Environnement en France, ou les émeutes...
by Jean-Marie Séronie
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Pourquoi les agriculteurs français ont-ils autant peur de l’avenir ? Pourquoi notre agriculture qui fut très brillante et demeure un des fleurons de nos exportations voit-elle ses performances régresser par rapport à plusieurs de ses concurrents ? Quels sont les chemins de la reconquête ?
C’est...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In recent years, especially with the approach of the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in late 2015, the number of publications, conferences and meetings on climate change has been growing exponentially. Yet uncertainties...
Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes
Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has...
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture
Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 15
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution,...
by Parmeshwar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Organic farming system in India is not new and is being followed from ancient time. It is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The land degradation due to salinity and waterlogging is a global phenomenon, afflicting about one billion hectares within the sovereign borders of at least 75 countries. Besides staring at the food security, it has far reaching and unacceptable socio-economic consequences since a large proportion...
by P. Parvatha Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book outlines a new paradigm, “Agro-ecological Intensification of Crop Protection”, which reduces negative impacts on the environment and enhances the provision of ecosystem services. It discusses the use of ecologically based management strategies to increase the sustainability of agricultural...
Farming, Famine and Plague
The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science. It investigates the climatic background for the two most significant risk factors for life in the crisis-prone England of the Later Middle Ages: subsistence crisis and plague. Based on...
Perspectives for Agronomy
Adopting Ecological Principles and Managing Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue...