Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
From the Farm to the Table
What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give...
Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions
Best Practices in Developing Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the eve of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in autumn 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan recommended five specific areas as focal points of discussion for the global forum: Water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity....
Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons
Challenges in International Law and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and...
Insect Pests of Stored Grain
Biology, Behavior, and Management Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Stored products of agriculture and animal origin are attacked by more than 600 species of beetles, 70 species of moths, and about 355 species of mites, causing huge quantitative and qualitative losses and insect contamination in food commodities. This is an important quality control problem. This...
Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
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,...
Feeding a Hungry Planet
Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's...
Sustainable Goat Production in Adverse Environments: Volume I
Welfare, Health and Breeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book explores the current trends and challenges of sustainable goat meat and milk production in different global contexts, providing valuable insights into this industry in adverse environments like mountain, semiarid and arid regions. It also includes contributions from international experts...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
It is well known that the impacts of climate change are tangible and hence there can be no debate about the need for appropriate adaptation measures, on a priority basis. However, it is equally important to recognize the fact that adaptation measures actually represent a dynamic synthesis of interventions...
Resilient Asia
Fusion of Traditional and Modern Systems for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book summarizes three years of extensive research conducted in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam as part of the CECAR – Asia project, which was intended to enhance resilience to climate and ecosystem changes by developing mosaic systems to strengthen resilience of bio-production systems through...
by Manoj Kumar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Sustainable agriculture can feed the world without damaging the environment or threatening human health. It is a way of growing food in an ecologically and ethically responsible manner. Sustainable crop production practices can lead to higher yields over time, with less need for expensive and environmentally...
by Anjali Priyadarshini, Prerna Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This new volume, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology: Fundamentals, Advances, and Practices for a Greener Future, looks at the application of a variety of technologies, both fundamental and advanced, that are being used for crop improvement, metabolic engineering, and the development of transgenic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is a crop of small land holding farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. It has a number of usages starting from protein rich food to vegetarian families; fuel wood; nitrogen supplier to soil; recycling minerals in soil to animal feed etc. Pigeonpea has been considered...
by Dr Kenton Dashiell, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Georg Goergen
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases...
Les Dessous de l'Alimentation Bio
Essai pour une meilleure compréhension des enjeux liés à la souveraineté alimentaire
Language: French
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Nous nourrir tous demain...et si seule la Bio pouvait y parvenir ?
« La Bio est un véritable projet politique pour une civilisation moderne. La souveraineté alimentaire est la fondation indispensable à notre liberté, notre santé, et notre sécurité. » - Claude Gruffat
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