Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
How to Raise Chickens
Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Whether you want to raise 5 chickens or 50, have a 40-foot city lot or a 40-acre farm, the expert advice in Future Farmers of America (FFA)–licensed How to Raise Chickens makes it easy for young readers and beginners to get started raising a healthy flock.
Whichever comes first for you,...
by Carroll E. Goering, Alan C. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The text was written for students in colleges of agriculture as well as others with an interest in engines and motor vehicles. Although the primary focus is on engines and farm tractors, many of the concepts also apply to automobiles, trucks, self-propelled farm machinery, lawn and garden tractors, and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This report contains a detailed assessment of the status and potential for the development of biofuels in Thailand and presents a country strategy for biofuels development consistent with the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. The findings were endorsed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good opportunity to review and...
Teaming with Fungi
The Organic Grower's Guide to Mycorrhizae
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
“Accomplishes what few other books have—helping growers use mycorrhizae to improve the immune systems of plants. This natural union between plants and fungi is the foundation of our food web.” —Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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Global Food Insecurity
Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development Paradigm and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge...
Agricultural Investment and Productivity
Building Sustainability in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into what works and how to analyze agricultural investments in one of the poorest regions of the...
Agri-Culture
Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors' Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK 'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources' Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia 'Full of supporting evidence...
Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Plant stresses are serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields accounting for more crop productivity losses than any other factor in rainfed agriculture. Post-harvest losses mean surplus crops do not reach market, affecting the livelihoods of farming families, and too often these families...
Vestal Fire
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying to understand their true relationship with the natural environment, this book offers a...
Quagmire
Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History
In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam�s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam�s turbulent past,...
Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping
Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains a detailed treatise on artificial grasses, including information on clovers, rye-grass, tares, and other types of artificial grasses. This text discusses the benefits, drawbacks, and uses of a variety of artificial grasses, written in clear language and including helpful tables...