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Author : George P. Deyoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives written by George P. Deyoe and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Percy Deyoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives written by George Percy Deyoe and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585762378
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Farming for Our Future written by PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.) and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Author : Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097906
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Farming for Us All written by Michael Mayerfeld Bell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices? Michael Mayerfeld Bell’s Farming for Us All first tackled this question twenty years ago, providing crucial insight into how the structure of US agriculture created this situation and exploring, by contrast, the practices of farmers who are working together to radically change how they think, learn, and grow. This updated edition of his now-classic work reflects on the lessons learned over the past two decades. Constrained by an oppressive nexus of markets, regulations, subsidies, and technology, farmers find themselves undermining their own economic and social security as well as the security of the land. Bell turns to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), that state’s largest sustainable-agriculture group. He traces how PFI creates an agriculture that engages others—farmers, researchers, officials, and consumers—in a common conversation about what agriculture could look like. Through dialogue, PFI members crossbreed knowledge, discovering pragmatic solutions to help crops grow in ways that sustain families, communities, societies, economies, and environments. Farming for Us All makes the case that for sustainable farming to flourish, new social relations are as important to cultivate as new crops. This book is necessary—and hopeful—reading for anyone concerned about the present and future of food and farming.
Author : Alfred H. Krebs
Publisher : Interstate Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives written by Alfred H. Krebs and published by Interstate Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industry of agriculture. Rural life in the United States. Youth and rural living. Agricultural occupations. Landscaping the home grounds. Growing food for the family. Conservation: the wise use of natural resources. The mechanization of farming. Characteristics of farm animals. Improving herds and flocks. Feeding livestock. Caring for livestock and their products. Keeping animals healthy. Characteristics of farm crops. Improving farm crops. Weeds as plant enemy number one. Insects: friends or foes? Diseases of farm crops. Marketing farm products. Managing the farm business. Cooperatives in agriculture. Keeping our environment clean. Starting a small-scale agricultural business. Frontiers of agriculture.
Author : Alfred H. Krebs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives (an Introduction to Agricultural Business and Natural Resources) written by Alfred H. Krebs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Percy Deyoe
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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives written by George Percy Deyoe and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Holthaus
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146658
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book From the Farm to the Table written by Gary Holthaus and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It's now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, "big iron" combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce efficiency, while farmers endure debt, dangerous working conditions, and long hours to pay for the technology. Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in an effort to keep up and break even. There is more to this story that affects both the food we eat and our provisions for the future. Too many Americans eat the food on their plates with little thought to its origin and in blind faith that government regulations will protect them from danger. While many Americans might have grown up in farming families, there are fewer family-owned farms with each passing generation. Americans are becoming disconnected from understanding the sources and content of their food. The farmers interviewed in From the Farm to the Table can help reestablish that connection. Gary Holthaus illuminates the state of American agriculture today, particularly the impact of globalization, through the stories of farmers who balance traditional practices with innovative methods to meet market demands. Holthaus demonstrates how the vitality of America's communities is bound to the successes and failures of its farmers. In From the Farm to the Table, farmers explain how their lives and communities have changed as they work to create healthy soil, healthy animals, and healthy food in a context of often inappropriate federal policy, growing competition from abroad, public misconceptions regarding government subsidies, the dangers of environmental damage and genetically modified crops, and the myths of modern economics. Rather than predicting doom and despair for small American growers, Holthaus shows their hope and the practical solutions they utilize. As these farmers tell their stories, "organic" and "sustainable" farming become real and meaningful. As they share their work and their lives, they reveal how those concepts affect the food we eat and the land on which it's grown, and how vital farming is to the American economy.
Author : Harvey S. James, Jr.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839101741
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture written by Harvey S. James, Jr. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook synthesizes and analyzes key issues and concerns relating to the impact of agriculture on both farmers and non-farmers. With a unique focus on humans rather than animals or the environment, the book is interdisciplinary and international in scope, with contributions from sociologists, economists, anthropologists and geographers providing case studies and examples from all six populated continents.
Download or read book Selected List of American Agricultural Books in Print and Current Agricultural Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Henderson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 193339210X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Sharing the Harvest written by Elizabeth Henderson and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at partnerships between local small farms and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm, offering advice on acquiring land, organizing, handling the harvest, and money and legal matters.
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in Our Lives written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr Yash Ashokbhai Pansuriya B Sc
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719251914
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Key Facts on General Agriculture written by Mr Yash Ashokbhai Pansuriya B Sc and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plant and other products to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surplus that enabled people to live in cities. The study of agriculture is known as agriculture sience. Agriculture science contain knowledge of many subject like Agronomy, Pathology, Entomology, Genetics and Plant breeding, Economics, Statics and other many subjects. We tried to compile knowledge of all this line in one book for students. Students can get all the information of General Agriculture in one book is our aim. This book can be helpful for preparation of competition exam like JRF, SRF, BHU, IBPS and other exam.
Author : Richard Manning
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 1466823429
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Against the Grain written by Richard Manning and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years. The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.
Author : Amir Kassam
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0128164115
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Food and Agriculture written by Amir Kassam and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates. Rethinking Food and Agriculture explores and uncovers some of the key historical, ethical, economic, social, cultural, political, and structural drivers and root causes of unsustainability, degradation of the agricultural environment, destruction of nature, short-comings in science and knowledge systems, inequality, hunger and food insecurity, and disharmony. It reviews efforts towards ‘sustainable development’, and reassesses whether these efforts have been implemented with adequate responsibility, acceptable societal and environmental costs and optimal engagement to secure sustainability, equity and justice. The book highlights the many ways that farmers and their communities, civil society groups, social movements, development experts, scientists and others have been raising awareness of these issues, implementing solutions and forging ‘new ways forward’, for example towards paradigms of agriculture, natural resource management and human nutrition which are more sustainable and just. Rethinking Food and Agriculture proposes ways to move beyond the current limited view of agro-ecological sustainability towards overall sustainability of the food and agriculture system based on the principle of ‘inclusive responsibility’. Inclusive responsibility encourages ecosystem sustainability based on agro-ecological and planetary limits to sustainable resource use for production and livelihoods. Inclusive responsibility also places importance on quality of life, pluralism, equity and justice for all and emphasises the health, well-being, sovereignty, dignity and rights of producers, consumers and other stakeholders, as well as of nonhuman animals and the natural world. Explores some of the key drivers and root causes of unsustainability , degradation of the agricultural environment and destruction of nature Highlights the many ways that different stakeholders have been forging 'new ways forward' towards alternative paradigms of agriculture, human nutrition and political economy, which are more sustainable and just Proposes ways to move beyong the current unsustainable exploitation of natural resources towards agroecological sustainability and overall sustainability of the food and agriculture system based on 'inclusive responsibility'
Author : Thomas A. Lyson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683033
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Civic Agriculture written by Thomas A. Lyson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.
Author : Roger R. B. Leakey
Publisher : Cabi
ISBN 13 : 9781780640983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Living with the Trees of Life written by Roger R. B. Leakey and published by Cabi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the career of Roger Leakey, the former Director of Research at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, this book presents the experiences of real life situations in rural villages of remote and distant places. It shows how the science of agroforestry can offer hope from the doom and gloom often emanating from the tropics.
