Author: Selina GayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Great World's Farm
Author: Selina GayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Tomorrow's Table
Author: Pamela C. RonaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199756694
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must be a better way to meet the need for increased food production. Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. The reader sees the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses. They learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. This book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices. It is also for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment.
The Chautauquan
Author: Farming Inside Invisible Worlds
Author: Hugh CampbellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350120561
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Otago, New Zealand. Farming Inside Invisible Worlds argues that the farm is a key player in the creation and stabilisation of political, economic and ecological power-particularly in colonised landscapes like New Zealand, America and Australia. This open access book reviews and rejects the way that farms are characterised in orthodox economics and agricultural science and then shows how re-centring the farm using the theoretical idea of political ontology can transform the way we understand the power of farming. Starting with the colonial history of farms in New Zealand, Hugh Campbell goes on to describe the rise of modernist farming and its often hidden political, racial and ecological effects. He concludes with an examination of alternative ways to farm in New Zealand, showing how the prior histories of colonisation and modernisation reveal important ways to farm differently in post-colonial worlds. Hugh Campbell's book has wide-ranging implications for understanding the role farms play in both our food systems and landscapes, and is an exciting new addition to food studies.
Critic and Literary World
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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World Farm Center
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General LegislationPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Rocky Mountain Educator
Author: The industrial development of nations
Author: G.B. CurtissPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1171507895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
The industrial development of nations, and a history of the tariff policies of the United States, and of Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and other European countries
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