Author: C. Arden PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Economics of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Iowa
Author: C. Arden PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Economics of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Iowa
Author: C. Arden PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Water Conservation, Theory, Practice, and Results, 1970-85
Author: Karl SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Iowa's Remarkable Soils
Author: Kathleen WoidaPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how Iowa's soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia. Its soils are what make Iowa a premier agricultural state, both in terms of acres planted and bushels harvested. But in the last hundred years, large-scale intensive agriculture and urban development have severely degraded most of our soils. However, as Woida documents, some innovative Iowans are beginning to repair and regenerate their soils by treating them as the living ecosystem and vast carbon store that they are.
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Author: Agricultural Economics Research
Author: Toward Meeting Soil and Water Conservation Research Needs
Author: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research
Author: Toward Meeting Soil and Water Conservation Research Needs
Author: United States. Agricultural Research ServicePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Sustainable Development of Agriculture
Author: Jyoti K. ParikhPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401731853
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Food problems - the efficient production or procurement of food and its appropriate distribution among members of society - are problems endemic to mankind. Yet the nature and dimensions of these problems have been changing over time. As economic systems have developed, specialization has increased; and this has led to increased interdependences of rural and urban areas, of agricultural and nonagricultural sectors, and of nations. When the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) began the Food and Agriculture Program (FAP) in 1976, we started with these objectives: (1) To evaluate the nature and dimensions of the world food situation. (2) To identify the factors that affect it. (3) To suggest policy alternatives at national, regional, and global levels: (a) To alleviate current food problems. (b) To prevent food problems in the future. To realize these objectives, FAP was organized around two major tasks. The first task was directed at national policy for food and agriculture in an international situation. Here, computable general equilibrium models were developed for nearly 20 major developed and developing countries and were linked together to examine food trade, aid, capital flows, and how they affect hunger, in addition to the effects of national government policies, which were also considered in detail. This approach, however, needed to be complemented by another approach that dealt with food production at the farm level.