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Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analysing and Using Agricultural Diversity
ISBN: 9781853394935 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers -- for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce this book. Arguably, these farmers have conserved and even created more biological diversity and more economically important species than all protected areas combined.
The book draws on the experience of demonstration sites that are the farmers' own enterprises, combining superior production... The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmer...
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153,53 zł |
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Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming
ISBN: 9781891853913 / Angielski / Twarda / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and...
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormou...
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731,67 zł |
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Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming
ISBN: 9781891853920 / Angielski / Miękka / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting cultivation (sometimes called 'swidden cultivation' or 'slash-and-burn agriculture') as unsustainable due to its supposed role in deforestation and land degradation. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that such indigenous practices, as they have evolved over time, can be highly adaptive to land and...
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormou...
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287,74 zł |
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The Sustainability of Rice Farming
ISBN: 9780851991634 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rice has supported a greater number of people for a longer period of time than any other crop. Nearly half of the global population is dependent on rice as its major staple food. While Asia remains the main center of production and consumption of rice, the importance of rice is increasing rapidly in Africa and Latin America, and exports of rice from the United States and Australia are of major importance to the world rice trade.
This book explores the factors which have contributed to the sustainability of rice production over the 8 or 9,000 years for which rice has been produced.... Rice has supported a greater number of people for a longer period of time than any other crop. Nearly half of the global population is dependent on ri...
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535,27 zł |
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Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming
ISBN: 9781844072972 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Low external input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There is a growing need for self-sufficient agriculture in an era experiencing dramatically diminishing returns from the high-input form of agriculture that resulted from the so-called 'green revolution', with its strong reliance upon expensive, synthetic pesticides and fertilisers. There are many reasons to support strategies for low external input farming, including a concern for environmental sustainability, increased attention to resource-poor farmers and marginal...
Low external input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There is a growing need for se...
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112,14 zł |
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Subsistence Agriculture & Economic Development
ISBN: 9780202362250 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become commercial farmers, producing more and more for sale in the marketplace. Although subsistence farms occupy 40 percent of the worlds cultivated land and support half of mankind, facts about them and programs to increase their output are scattered. Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development provides a unique overview of these difficulties and their significance to economic development. It is the first book to subject... One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption ... |
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243,84 zł |
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Crisis & Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture
ISBN: 9780803211421 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. Here one of the most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture explains what this means. These engaging essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed. Together they constitute a clear and compelling vision for rebalancing the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of agriculture...
With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agricul...
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76,67 zł |
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Biotic Indicators for Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture
ISBN: 9780444515513 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume highlights aspects and approaches to questions on the development and findings of biotic indicator (systems), considering the complex problems of conversion into practice. Biotic indication in relation to sustainable land use and biodiversity is discussed from many angles.
Covered in this volume are the following topics:
This volume highlights aspects and approaches to questions on the development and findings of biotic indicator (systems), considering the complex prob...
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1048,72 zł |
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Farming in a Changing Climate: Agricultural Adaptation in Canada
ISBN: 9780774813945 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a synopsis of what climate change means for Canadian agriculture, explores different approaches to the topic, and presents examples of research. This book covers various agricultural regions and a variety of commodity production and farming systems.
Offers a synopsis of what climate change means for Canadian agriculture, explores different approaches to the topic, and presents examples of research...
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146,29 zł |
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The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture
ISBN: 9781844072354 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of agriculture: one founded more on ecological principles and which is also more harmonious with people and their cultures.
Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity, hundreds of millions of peo...
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585,33 zł |
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Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming
ISBN: 9781844072965 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Low external input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There is a growing need for self-sufficient agriculture in an era experiencing dramatically diminishing returns from the high-input form of agriculture that resulted from the so-called 'green revolution', with its strong reliance upon expensive, synthetic pesticides and fertilisers. There are many reasons to support strategies for low external input farming, including a concern for environmental sustainability, increased attention to resource-poor farmers and marginal...
Low external input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There is a growing need for se...
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195,06 zł |
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Sustainable Farmland Management: New Transdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9781845933517 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the relationship between sustainability and farmland management in diffeing tempoarla spatial and production contexts, this book considers farmland multifuctionality, systems and sytemic thinking, the debates over information, knowledge and ethical aspects.
Examining the relationship between sustainability and farmland management in diffeing tempoarla spatial and production contexts, this book considers f...
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591,23 zł |
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Gold in the Grass: Rags to Riches Through Soil Reclamation and Sustainable Farming. a Back-To-The-Land Adventure from 1954
ISBN: 9780972177054 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As World War II was ending, Alfred Leatherbarrow, a wounded Canadian veteran, and his nurse, Margaret, fell in love, married, bought their dream farmand discovered that their crops would not grow. The farms soil had been exhausted through years of destructive tillage practices. Faced with certain defeat, they used innovative farming techniquesincluding a prototype forage harvester to gather grass for silageto restore the fertility of their farm. This early experiment in sustainable agriculture not only saved the farm in a rags-to-riches turnaround, but showed other farmers in their region how...
As World War II was ending, Alfred Leatherbarrow, a wounded Canadian veteran, and his nurse, Margaret, fell in love, married, bought their dream farma...
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122,41 zł |
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From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture
ISBN: 9780813192260 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would i... |
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120,30 zł |
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African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agriculture
ISBN: 9781844077151 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and livelihood contributions of indigenous vegetables in urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
This title provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management...
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273,11 zł |
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Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability
ISBN: 9780803227903 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and identity. Remaking the North American Food System examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption as a way to overcome some of the negative implications of industrial and globalizing trends in the food and agricultural system. Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, the chapters in this volume describe the many efforts throughout North America to craft and sustain...
Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and id...
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117,02 zł |
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Water and Agricultural Sustainability Strategies
ISBN: 9780415572194 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text covers various aspects related to water management and agricultural sustainability in conditions of a changing climate, an increasing world population and expected shortages of food and potable water.
This text covers various aspects related to water management and agricultural sustainability in conditions of a changing climate, an increasing world ...
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707,28 zł |
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Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems
ISBN: 9780231136495 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in three other languages and growing, Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural production systems. The volume includes the most recent research and developments in the maintenance of local diversity at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. Chapters cover the assessment and farmer management practices for crop, livestock, aquatic, and associated diversity (such as pollinators and soil microorganisms) in agricultural ecosystems; examine the potential role of diversity in...
Published in three other languages and growing, Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, ...
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179,71 zł |
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Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances
ISBN: 9781615208814 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As national and international concern over sustainable resources becomes more prevalent, the need for decision support systems (DSS) increases. The applicable uses of a successful system can assist in the sustainability of resources, as well as the efficiency and management of the agri-environment industry. Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances presents the development of DSS for managing agricultural and environmental systems, focusing on the exposition of innovative methodologies, from web-mobile systems to artificial...
As national and international concern over sustainable resources becomes more prevalent, the need for decision support systems (DSS) increases. The ap...
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920,01 zł |
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The Vetiver System For Soil And Water Conservation
ISBN: 9781438203225 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is handbook is a based on John Greenfield's earlier book -Vetiver Grass: The Hedge Against Erosion. It updates the text and matches actual photographic examples of Vetiver System applications against the original line drawings. The handbook remains primarily a handbook for "lay" users interested in basic soil and water conservation practices using the Vetiver System. It is simply written and contains enough information and facts so that even the least technically educated users can confidently read, apply, and achieve good results. We have gone a long way with the Vetiver System since...
This is handbook is a based on John Greenfield's earlier book -Vetiver Grass: The Hedge Against Erosion. It updates the text and matches actual photog...
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64,56 zł |
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