Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Dans un monde où plus de 800 millions d’êtres humains continuent de souffrir de malnutrition chronique et où la population mondiale devrait encore croître de 2 milliards, pour atteindre 9,6 milliards de personnes en 2050, et se concentrer davantage encore dans les zones urbaines côtières,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
With a roster of international contributors, this volume offers an abundance of solutions to address agricultural water management challenges in today’s water-scarce areas of the world. The authors present studies on farmer-friendly irrigation scheduling methods, model-based analysis of crop water...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides. It offers insights into the current trends and future prospects of nanotechnology, including the benefits...
The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector
Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements emerged...
by Mohan Guruswamy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Those who want to be our rulers have to provide food to all citizens at reasonably affordable price as well as to ensure that those who produce food have reasonable dividends for their products and labor.
by Arnold F. Moene, Jos C. van Dam
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Traditionally, soil science, atmospheric science, hydrology, plant science and agriculture have been studied largely as separate subjects. These systems are clearly interlinked, however, and in recent years a great deal of interdisciplinary research has been undertaken to better understand the interactions....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Across the world, forests, trees on farms, and agroforestry systems play a crucial role in the livelihoods of rural people by providing employment, energy, nutritious foods and a wide range of other goods and ecosystem services. They have tremendous potential to contribute to sustainable development...
The Fight Over Food
Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington
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by Erdener Kaynak, Matthew Meulenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This groundbreaking book is the first to provide state-of-the-art information on the current changes and developments in European food and agricultural marketing. Food and Agribusiness Marketing in Europe contains broad and up-to-date coverage of agricultural and food marketing by experts in a variety...
The Living Land
Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital, and a large 'sustainability dividend' is...
Montana Women From The Ground Up
Passionate Voices in Agriculture and Land Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Growing up on the family ranch, Linda Finley fought hard to gain the acceptance and respect as a ranch hand that her brothers took for granted. Arlene Pile barely remembers learning to ride a horse and run machinery--she was so young. She learned to drive on an 8N Ford tractor with a buck rake. Lee...
Bugs in the System
Redesigning the Pesticide Industry for Sustainable Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This important, interdisciplinary contribution to the 'greening' business debate looks at one of the most environmentally controversial industries - the chemical pesticide industry. If that sector can be put on to an environmentally sustainable footing, then the same may be possible for virtually...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Improving the environmental performance of agriculture is a high priority in OECD and many non-OECD countries. This will be of increasing concern in the future given the pressure to feed a growing world population with scarce land and water resources. Policy has an important role to play where markets...
Alternative Irrigation
The Promise of Runoff Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote...