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1. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 by Paul K. Conkin | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2009-06-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system. Customer Reviews (5)
Wonderful
Well organized and very interesting
Critical of American agriculture?This is how we got here. . .
Interesting
A comparison with today's financial crisis. |
2. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives) by Thomas A. Lyson | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2004-06-01)
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Important and too often ignored |
3. Sea Energy Agriculture by Maynard Murray | |
Paperback: 109
Pages
(2003-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sea Energy Agriculture recounts Murray's experiments and presents his astounding conclusions. The work of this eco-pioneer was largely ignored during his lifetime, and his book became a lost classic - out-of-print for more than 25 years. Now this rare volume is once again available, with a new foreward and afterword by the founder of Acres U.S.A., Charles Walters. Customer Reviews (4)
Keys to a hidden treasure
Sea Energy Agriculture (Paperback) by Maynard Murray
EVERYONE should read this book!
Best book ever! Eat vegan living foods! |
4. Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture (Our Sustainable Future) by John E. Ikerd | |
Paperback: 342
Pages
(2008-05-01)
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Establishes that the current factory farm,petroleum based agricultural system is not sustainable |
5. Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe | |
Paperback: 164
Pages
(2006-11-03)
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6. Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture by Darrin Nordahl | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(2009-09-23)
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Public land for public produce |
7. Field Guide to California Agriculture (California Natural History Guides) by Paul Starrs, Peter Goin | |
Paperback: 504
Pages
(2010-07-06)
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Geographical Masterpiece |
8. Natures Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty by Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer, Angus Wright | |
Paperback: 242
Pages
(2009-10)
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Small Farmers are the Future
A strong addition to environmental history collections |
9. Financial Management in Agriculture (6th Edition) by Peter J. Barry, Paul N. Ellinger, John A. Hopkin, C. B. Baker | |
Paperback: 682
Pages
(1999-09-25)
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Financial Management in Agriculture (6th Edition) |
10. Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture (Conservation Classics) by John Smith | |
Paperback: 422
Pages
(1987-12-01)
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Customer Reviews (5)
a visionary book
A solution for the future
Dilligent but Grand
A Visionary; A Vision and a Timeless Prescription
Tree crops offer potential solutions for a sustainable ag. |
11. Ancient Agriculture: Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming by Gabriel Alonso De Herrera | |
Hardcover: 168
Pages
(2006-09-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Art of Agriculture is the first English edition of Obra de Agricultura by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, an agriculture instruction manual originally written in Granada, Spain, in 1513 and published there in 1539. Herrera, widely considered the Father of Modern Spanish Agriculture, wrote this treatise nearly five centuries ago, thoughtfully recounting traditional farming techniques of the Moors before their expulsion from Spain, the Spanish colonizers in the early 1600s, and the rural Indo-Hispano bioregion spanning northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Customer Reviews (1)
Insights into traditional farming techniques of the Moors |
12. A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis by Marcel Mazoyer, Laurence Roudart | |
Paperback: 469
Pages
(2006-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land.From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart's A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then.Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable.Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind. Customer Reviews (2)
Systematic Review of Agricultural Systems
misleading title |
13. Above the Pavement - the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at Public Farm 1 (Inventory Books) by Amale Andraos, Dan Wood | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2010-06-02)
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14. Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded by Elizabeth Henderson, Robyn Van En | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2007-11-01)
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csa info
A MUST-have for CSA farmer wannabes
Keeping a conscious connection to the land and your food
Heavy on philosophy, light on practicality
A Solution to a Problem!!! - This book made me optimistic. |
15. World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices by Jason Clay | |
Paperback: 570
Pages
(2004-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of 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 around the world, and employing statistics from a range of authoritative sources including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization,the author examines twenty of the world?s major crops, including beef, coffee, corn, rice, rubber, shrimp, sorghum, tea, and tobacco. For each crop, he offers comparative information including: Customer Reviews (3)
Qualification
Quick review
Superb reference |
16. Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis | |
Paperback: 252
Pages
(2008-10-13)
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Fascinating read
Ancient Roots and Modern Flowers |
17. Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture by Scott Phillips, Lauren Templeton | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2010-05-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description “Sir John’s ability to comprehend complex concepts and distill these into money-making ideas for his investors was legendary. With this book, Scott Phillips extends Sir John Templeton’s crystal clear vision to some of tomorrow’s most interesting and powerful money-making opportunities. All readers should be prepared to learn–and profit!” –Jeffrey Everett, Founding Partner, Everkey Global Partners “The brilliant global investing strategy of Sir John Templeton finds new life in Scott Phillips’ Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism. With the U.S. in trouble, savvy international investing is a must, and this book shows you the best places to put your money for serious profits ahead.” –Christopher Ruddy, CEO, Newsmax Media, Inc. “In Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism, Scott Phillips delivers a road map to investment success traveled by the very few but guaranteed to lead you to enormous profits. The book offers a delightful, common sense approach to investing that unfortunately is not so common.” –Robert P. Miles, author, The Warren Buffett CEO "If you want to mitigate your risks while leveraging your long-term sources for growth, read every page of this book and invest accordingly. In ten or twenty years you will look back and be thankful you did.” –Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Ph.D., Research Professor, Yale University and CEO, The Roosevelt Group Value Investing for the 2010s! Earn Consistent Long-Term Profits in a Radically New Market Environment Legendary value investor Sir John Templeton knew the secret of earning consistent profits: In times of maximum pessimism, recognize what your long-term opportunities are–and be ready to pounce. This book shows you where today’s long-term opportunities are, so you can earn outsized profits when the “herd” is running away in terror. Lauren Templeton Capital Management’s Scott Phillips identifies six powerful value investing themes for the 2010s: areas of long-term growth that become even more compelling in volatile or bear markets. This is value investing for the 2010s: a set of emerging opportunities you can profit from, while other investors are selling in fear! Customer Reviews (12)
Fantastic Read
Well written and contains trends and ideas that investors can profit from now.
International Ideas
Perspectives on International Investing
Pessimist about markets?Great advice on how to find opportunities |
18. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food And Agriculture Organization, And World Health Organization Have Changed the World 1945-1965 (New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations) by Amy L. S. Staples | |
Hardcover: 349
Pages
(2006-04-30)
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19. Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2005-02-01)
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A polemic against agriculture
What to do with all this grain?
The wrong subtitle - AGRICULTURE didn't hijack civilization
Against the Grain
Everyone should read this! |
20. Emergence of Agriculture ("Scientific American" Library) by Bruce D. Smith | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(1999-02)
list price: US$19.95 Isbn: 0716760304 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Good Illustrations
Interesting account of the origins
Dry but very interesting.
Excellent survey of the beginnings of farming Anyone who enjoys this book will also like JaredDiamond's Guns, germs and steel. ... Read more |
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