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Sustainable Agriculture and Food
ISBN: 9781844074082 / Angielski / Twarda / 1944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Jules Pretty brings together the most comprehensive and carefully selected collection of writings available about sustainable agriculture. Together with an excellent overview chapter, the collected works provide the best available source for an enlightened analysis and debate about sustainability in agriculture. The four volumes will serve both as an excellent reader for students and a unique reference for all with an interest in the pursuit of sustainabiity in the food system' Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, former Chair of CGIAR Science Council and World Food Prize...
'Jules Pretty brings together the most comprehensive and carefully selected collection of writings available about sustainable agriculture. Together w...
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4024,17 |
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Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers
ISBN: 9781846641039 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to keeping poultry on a small and large scale, with detailed information on selection and breeding, feeding, rearing, housing, plucking, and all other related aspects. Contents include: The Beginner, Breeds and Strains, Houses and Appliances, Foods and Feeding, Hatching, Rearing, Backyard Poultry Keeping, Intensive Poultry Keeping, Winter Egg Production, Day Old Chicks, Ducks, Turkeys, Geese, Guinea Fowls, Diseases of Poultry, Vermin, Egg Preserving, Killing and Shaping, Plucking, Drawing, Trussing, etc. Many vintage books such as this are...
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to keeping poultry on a small and large scale, with detailed information on selection and breeding, f...
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102,41 |
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Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development
ISBN: 9781853838163 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on fieldwork and involving farmers, extension workers and researchers, this is an edited volume of studies of how farmers successfully experiment and innovate to increase productivity, often in adverse and resource-poor conditions. It covers a wide range of countries and varieties of farming and shows how successful and motivating an approach that builds on farmer innovation can be. It confirms the resourcefulness of the farmers themselves and provides an alternative to the conventional "transfer of technology" development paradigm - one that recognizes the farmers themselves as the...
Based on fieldwork and involving farmers, extension workers and researchers, this is an edited volume of studies of how farmers successfully experimen...
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224,33 |
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Manual of Fertilizer Processing
ISBN: 9780824775223 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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2073,06 |
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Plants and Beekeeping - An Account of Those Plants, Wild and Cultivated, of Value to the Hive Bee, and for Honey Production in the British Isles
ISBN: 9781406745238 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the British Isles. Plants And Beekeeping contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to the modern bee keeper, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Plants and the Beekeeper, Honey in Relation to Nectar Source, Notes on Unpalatable and Poisonous Honey, Pollen, The Hive Bee and Pollination, Artificial Bee Pasturage or Planting for Bees, Garden Flowers and The Honey...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the Britis...
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149,37 |
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Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals
ISBN: 9781603420280 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows you how to develop a respectful working relationship with your animals to promote their health and productivity. With detailed construction plans for animal-friendly facilities of all sizes and dozens of low-stress methods for moving your livestock on pastures, padlocks, and feedlot pens, this guide has everything you need to know to create a comfortable atmosphere for thriving, happy livestock.
Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of underst...
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95,25 |
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Ecohydrology: Processes, Models and Case Studies
ISBN: 9781845930028 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecohydrology is an emerging new sub-discipline which links elements of ecology with hydrology at all points in the water cycle, ranging in scale from water-plant physiological relationships to whole catchment water-ecosystem processes. This book pays most attention to the larger scales of ecohydrology, emphasizing the use of this tool in striving towards the goal of sustainable water management. Authors from Eastern and Western Europe, America, Australia and South Africa give a broad global context.
Ecohydrology is an emerging new sub-discipline which links elements of ecology with hydrology at all points in the water cycle, ranging in scale from ...
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652,08 |
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Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
ISBN: 9781402087691 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mycorrhizal fungi are microbial engines which improve plant vigor and soil quality. They play a crucial role in plant nutrient uptake, water relations, ecosystem establishment, plant diversity, and the productivity of plants. Scientific research involves multidisciplinary approaches to understand the adaptation of mycorrhizae to the rhizosphere, mechanism of root colonization, effect on plant physiology and growth, biofertilization, plant resistance and biocontrol of plant pathogens. This book discusses and goes into detail on a number of topics: the molecular basis of nutrient exchange... Mycorrhizal fungi are microbial engines which improve plant vigor and soil quality. They play a crucial role in plant nutrient uptake, water relati... |
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928,04 |
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Rural Change and Sustainability: Agriculture, the Environment and Communities
ISBN: 9780851990828 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. It focuses on rural regions, which are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, which themselves have far-reaching implications for rural space and society. Themes that occur throughout the book include agricultural change, environmental issues, rural communities, governance and globalization, and rural responses to these.
This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities ...
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652,08 |
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
ISBN: 9780821376522 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihoods. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors and within the...
The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihoods. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imp...
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165,85 |
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
ISBN: 9781603421386 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you'll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.
This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; ra...
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72,38 |
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Environmental Protection: European Law and Governance
ISBN: 9780199565177 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The EU has emerged as a major source of innovation in environmental governance. This is manifested through the frameworks it is putting in place for environmental governance, and through its position on the world stage for international environmental law. An institutional richness has developed which is sometimes daunting in its complexity but which offers much promise for the future. This volume seeks to give a taste of this, and of the challenges which face the EU in its sustainable development phase.
The volume opens with a broad historical overview of the evolution of EU environmental... The EU has emerged as a major source of innovation in environmental governance. This is manifested through the frameworks it is putting in place for e...
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687,91 |
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Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision
ISBN: 9781402090301 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary populations were present for over a millennium before European contact. Associated with these are tracts of anomalously fertile, dark soils termed terra preta or dark earths. These soils are presently an important agricultural resource within Amazonia and provide a model for developing long-term future sustainability of food production in tropical environments. The late Dutch soil scientist Wim Sombroek (1934-2003) was instrumental in... Amazonian soils are almost universally thought of as extremely forbidding. However, it is now clear that complex societies with large, sedentary po... |
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806,99 |
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Practical Poultry Breeder - Or, How to Make Poultry Pay
ISBN: 9781443759083 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to poultry farming, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, diseases and ailments, and much more. Although old, the information of this volume is timeless and will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in poultry farming. Contents include: General Remarks, Houses and Runs, What are the Best Fowls to Keep, Feeding, How to Breed, and What to Breed From, Pure Bred Fowls, Bantams, Cross-Bred Fowls, Sussex and Sussex Fowls, Poultry Farming and Keeping, Preparing Birds for the Show Pen, and Diseases . Many...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to poultry farming, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, diseases and ailments, and ...
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123,75 |
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Plants and Beekeeping - An Account of Those Plants, Wild and Cultivated, of Value to the Hive Bee, and for Honey Production in the British Isles
ISBN: 9781443726894 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the British Isles. Plants And Beekeeping contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to the modern bee keeper, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Plants and the Beekeeper, Honey in Relation to Nectar Source, Notes on Unpalatable and Poisonous Honey, Pollen, The Hive Bee and Pollination, Artificial Bee Pasturage or Planting for Bees, Garden Flowers and The Honey...
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the wild and cultivated plants that are of value to the hive bee and for honey production in the Britis...
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230,48 |
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Poultry Book - A Guide for Big or Small Poultry Keepers, Beginners and Farmers
ISBN: 9781443738613 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. POULTRY BOOK - A GUIDE FOR SMALL OR BIG POULTRY KEEPERS, BEGINNERS AND FARMERS By Harry Roberts. A READ COUNTRY BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally published in the early 1930s, this extremely scarce early work on poultry keeping is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have republished it, using the original text and photographs. Two hundred and thirty three pages deal with every aspect of poultry keeping from egg to table, and will prove invaluable to both the backyard beginner and the larger commercial enterprise. Twenty Detailed chapters contain much...
POULTRY BOOK - A GUIDE FOR SMALL OR BIG POULTRY KEEPERS, BEGINNERS AND FARMERS By Harry Roberts. A READ COUNTRY BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally publ...
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192,06 |
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The Quest for Sustainable International Fisheries: Regional Efforts to Implement the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement: An Overview for the Ma
ISBN: 9781845935832 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance. This book explains the international legal framework, summarizes the state of the fisheries, and outlines the efforts of regional fish
The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance. This book explains the inter...
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682,89 |
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The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008
ISBN: 9781844075928 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management, numbers of farms and specific information about commodities and land use in organic systems. The book also contains information on the global market of the burgeoning organic sector, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and...
The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture...
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438,95 |
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Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2: Experiences and Regional Perspectives
ISBN: 9781597266734 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends.
The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food... The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways arou...
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261,86 |
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Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options
ISBN: 9780199297993 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance of taking environmental issues into account in the process of development and poverty reduction. This book deepens our understanding of environmental sustainability in a context of economic growth, putting sustainable development firmly back on the agenda.
This important collection of essays from the leading writers in the field, focuses on the importance of taking environmental issues into account in th...
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699,46 |
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