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'If we could all live and eat a little more like Tom the world and the food chain would be in much better shape.' Anna Jones'This book is like a hybrid of Michael Pollan and Anna Jones. It combines serious food politics with flavour-packed modern recipes. This is a...
Editeur :
Kyle Books
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production. Focusing on the challenges of implementing sustainability in various contexts in the fields...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-18
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A guide to the diversity of pesticides used in modern agricultural practices, and the relevant social and environmental issues Pesticides in Crop Production offers an important resource that explores pesticide action in plants; pesticide metabolism in soil microbes,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2020-02-10
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Ranging from biofuels to building materials, and from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals, the list of products that may be manufactured using discards from farming and fishery operations is extensive. Byproducts from Agriculture and Fisheries examines the procedures and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-12-20
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This Print On Demand book will be sent within 3 weeks (metropolitan France) and in a separate package if you order another paperback book.Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de...
Editeur :
éditions Quae
Parution :
2019-12-13
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This book discusses the impact of climate change on rural forest areas. It analyses data provided by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) to not only demonstrate that climate change has occurred in Portuguese forests, but also to suggest how...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Provides comprehensive coverage of the chemical interactions among organic and inorganic solids, air, water, microorganisms, and the plant roots in soil This book focuses on the species and reaction processes of chemicals in soils, with applications to environmental and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-11-07
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The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-06
Collection :
Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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This Volume comprises 14 chapters in an attempt to provide the reader with available information on safe and effective use of entomopathogens. Chapters in this book dealing with soil-borne entomopathogens and their phylogeny also provide a review on most updated...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-16
Collection :
Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection
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This book is an open access publication.Forest ecosystems in Central Europe are changing as a result of anthropogenic influences and changing climate conditions. As such, a large-scale monitoring programme was undertaken in order to understand the influence of site...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-09
Collection :
Ecological Studies
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Provides a comprehensive overview of the role of cotton in the economy and cotton production around the world This book offers a complete look at the world’s largest fiber crop: cotton. It examines its effect on the global economy—its uses and products, harvesting and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-07-29
Collection :
World Agriculture Series
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A student-friendly textbook that describes ancient soils, how they may be identified, and their use in paleoenvironmental reconstruction Ancient soils contain vital mineralogical, geochemical, textural, and paleontological information about the continental environments...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-07-23
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Food security, jobs, ecological transition of agricultural production models and consumption patterns... Agroecology could be one of the solutions to meet the future challenges of humanity. Part of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it requires a...
Editeur :
QUAE
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This bestselling guide is the perfect reference for caring for your flock of sheep. The fifth edition of Storey’s Guide to Raising Sheep is now updated with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, including a gallery of the best breed choices for...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2019-06-25
Collection :
Storey’s Guide to Raising
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This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia. It highlights the soil-forming environment (climate, geology, geomorphology), the characterization of the physical, chemical and morphological (macro-, micro-) properties of soils, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-20
Collection :
World Soils Book Series
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Combines new findings on morphological aspects, the latest data on gene function in grasses, and the interaction of grasses with their habitats 45% of all arable land is covered by five grass crops: wheat, maize, rice, barley and sugar cane. This book demonstrates why...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-06-12
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The health and profitability of grass-based livestock begins with the food they eat. In Managing Pasture, author Dale Strickler guides farmers and ranchers through the practical and ideological considerations behind caring for the land as a key part of running a...
Editeur :
Storey Publishing, LLC
Parution :
2019-04-30
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Live a more sustainable lifestyle Historically referred to as a government program for revitalizing undesirable living areas, "homesteading" today has come to mean the pursuit of a self-sufficient lifestyle. Homesteading can include everything from keeping bees,...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2019-04-01
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Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world’s land area. Soils influenced by forest cover have different properties than soils cultivated for agricultural...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-20
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