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21. Agriculture for beginners by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Daniel Harvey Hill | |
Paperback: 368
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(2010-09-09)
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22. The Origins of Agriculture: An International Perspective | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2006-01-28)
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23. Hanunoo Agriculture: A Report on an Integral System of Shifting Cultivation in the Philippines (FAO Forestry Development Paper No 12) by Harold C. Conklin | |
Paperback: 209
Pages
(1975-12)
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24. Praxis II Agriculture (0700) Exam Secrets Study Guide: Praxis II Test Review for the Praxis II: Subject Assessments by Praxis II Exam Secrets Test Prep Team | |
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(2009)
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25. Women and Sustainable Agriculture: Interviews With 14 Agents of Change by Anna Anderson | |
Paperback: 220
Pages
(2004-10-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Within a framework that offers brief overviews of the development of U.S. agriculture, the interviews allow the reader to hear firsthand what has gone wrong and what we can do about it. Part One focuses on concepts of traditional agriculture, organic growing and market viability. Part Two discusses pioneering agriculture and the process of restoring our farms to thriving habitats of biodiversity with clean water and healthy soil. Part Three considers the issues of industrial agriculture, exploring the controversy of genetically modified foods, farm foreclosures, and the 2002 Farm Bill. Part Four returns us to sustainable agriculture and how we can make sustainability work for us. It includes discussions offarmers’ markets, co-ops, and local food systems. |
26. Agriculture at a Crossroads: Synthesis Report (v. 7) by Science, and Technology International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge | |
Paperback: 104
Pages
(2009-01-15)
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27. The Anatomy of Life and Energy in Agriculture by Arden B. Andersen | |
Paperback: 115
Pages
(1989-06-01)
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Land minding
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Thought-provoking in many new directions. |
28. Successes in African Agriculture: Lessons for the Future (International Food Policy Research Institute) | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(2010-05-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. Because most Africans work in agriculture, escaping such dire poverty depends on increased agricultural productivity to raise rural incomes, lower food prices, and stimulate growth in other economic sectors. Per capita agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen, however, for much of the past half-century. Successes in African Agriculture investigates how to reverse this decline. Instead of cataloging failures, as many past studies have done, this book identifies episodes of successful agricultural growth in Africa and identifies processes, practices, and policies for accelerated growth in the future. The individual studies follow developments in, among other areas, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa, horticulture in Kenya, and dairying in East Africa. Drawing on these case studies and on consultations with agricultural specialists and politicians from across sub-Saharan Africa -- undertaken in collaboration with the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development -- the contributors identify two key determinants of positive agricultural performance: agricultural research to provide more productive and sustainable technologies to farmers and a policy framework that fosters market incentives for increasing production. The contributors discuss how the public and private sectors can best coordinate the convergence of both factors. Given current concerns about global food security, this book provides timely and important resources to policymakers and development specialists concerned with reversing the negative trends in food insecurity and poverty in Africa. |
29. Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture: Prospects and Constraints | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2009-01-30)
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30. Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture | |
Hardcover: 396
Pages
(2002-05-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. It includes more than 250 profound and startling photographs and gathers together more than 40 essays by leading ecological thinkers including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and Gary Nabhan. Its scope and photo-driven approach provide a unique and invaluable antidote to the efforts by agribusiness to obscure and disconnect us from the truth about industrialized foods. The book's many photographs and essays offer graphic testimony to the tragic consequences of how our food is produced. Readers will come to see that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest" - fatal to consumers, as pesticide residues and new disease vectors such as E. coli and "mad cow disease" find their way into our food supply; fatal to our landscapes, as chemical runoff from factory farms poison our rivers and groundwater; fatal to genetic diversity, as farmers rely increasingly on high-yield monocultures and genetically engineered crops; and fatal to our farm communities, which are wiped out by huge corporate farms. As it exposes the ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture's fatal harvest, the book also details a new ecological and humane vision for agriculture. It shows how millions of people are engaged in the new politics of food as they work to develop a better alternative to the current chemically fed and biotechnology-driven system. Designed to aid the movement to reform industrial agriculture, Fatal Harvest will inform and influence the activists, farmers, policymakers, and consumers who are seeking a safer and more sustainable food future. Customer Reviews (8)
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31. Agriculture Course: The Birth of the Biodynamic Method by Rudolf Steiner | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(2004-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description With these talks, Steiner created and launched "biodynamic" farming—a form of agriculture that has come to be regarded as the best organically produced food. However, the agriculture Steiner speaks of here is much more than organic—it involves working with the cosmos, with the earth, and with spiritual beings. To facilitate this, Steiner prescribes specific "preparations" for the soil, as well as other distinct methods born from his profound understanding of the material and spiritual worlds. He presents a comprehensive picture of the complex dynamic relationships at work in nature and gives basic indications of the practical measures needed to bring them into full play. These lectures are reprinted here in the "classic" translation made by Rudolf Steiner's English interpreter, George Adams. This edition also features a preface by Steiner's colleague the medical doctor Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, as well as eight color plates. This is the course that began the biodynamic movement. This is the essential work for anyone wanting to understand and use Steiner's methods of food production. |
32. Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Revised edition (Biblioteca Di Studi Antichi, 40) by Victor Davis Hanson | |
Paperback: 260
Pages
(1998-10-20)
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Superb book, uses concrete experience to make a fine point.
Excellent contribution to understanding Classical Greece Hanson's main premise is that many previous analyses ofagricultural devastation in classical Greece have overstated the severityof its effects.He points out the ravaging was usually a means to incitebattle with enemy infantry rather than an end in itself, and arguesconvincingly that the ravaging often associated with the seasonal cycle ofwarfare, while certainly contributing to hardship among the invadedpopulation, was far from complete and had relatively short-term effects. Drawing on his first-hand experience as a farmer, Hanson illustrates someof the practical difficulties with destroying the olive trees, vines, andgrains that formed the staples of Greek agriculture.In the course of hisanalysis, he brings to life the Greek countryside and its relationship tothe urban center of the polis. Although Warfare and Agriculture will beof interest to any reader interested in the classical world, it is probablyof greatest interest to readers with some familiarity with Greek history. The extensive references to contemporary and modern sources, including manyrecent sources cited in the Updated Commentary to this revised edition,guide the interested reader to a wealth of additional information on thesubject. ... Read more |
33. Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1996-10)
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This is the seminal source for Biodynamic farming. |
34. Biodynamic Agriculture by Willy Schilthuis | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2004-08-31)
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Biodynamic agriculture - a beginners guide
Steiner is a Genius! |
35. Sustainable Agriculture | |
Hardcover: 919
Pages
(2009-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation costs, flaws of the global market, worldwide pesticide pollution, pest adaptation and resistance, loss of soil fertility and organic carbon, soil erosion, decreasing biodiversity, desertification, and so on. Despite unprecedented advances in sciences allowing to visit planets and disclose subatomic particles, serious terrestrial issues about food show clearly that conventional agriculture is not suited any longer to feed humans and to preserve ecosystems. Sustainable agriculture is an alternative for solving fundamental and applied issues related to food production in an ecological way. While conventional agriculture is driven almost solely by productivity and profit, sustainable agriculture integrates biological, chemical, physical, ecological, economic and social sciences in a comprehensive way to develop new farming practices that are safe and do not degrade our environment. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical and narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. As most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations. |
36. Tropical Soils: Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture (Topics in Sustainable Agronomy) by Anthony S. R. Juo, Kathrin Franzluebbers | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2003-09-18)
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37. The elements of agriculture: a book for young farmers, with questions prepared for the use of schools by George E. 1833-1898 Waring | |
Paperback: 306
Pages
(2010-09-04)
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38. Selection of Irrigation Methods for Agriculture by Albert J. Clemmens, R. Bliesner, John L. Merriam, L. Hardy, C. M. Burt | |
Paperback: 129
Pages
(1999-12)
list price: US$30.00 Isbn: 0784404623 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
39. The College of Agriculture at Penn State: A Tradition of Excellence by Michael Bezilla | |
Hardcover: 362
Pages
(1987-11)
list price: US$68.95 Isbn: 0271006056 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
40. Women in Agriculture in the Middle East (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning) | |
Hardcover: 177
Pages
(2005-08)
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