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Crop ecology
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D. J. Connor,D. J. Connor |
"Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support cont… |
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Tomatoland
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Barry Estabrook |
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought ou… |
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Sustainable agriculture
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Eric Lichtfouse |
Sustainable agriculture is an alternative for solving fundamental and applied issues related to food production. It integrates biological, chemical, physical, ecological, economic and social sciences… |
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Managing Water In Agroecosystems For Sustainable Food Security
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Eline Boelee |
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Lentil underground
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Liz Carlisle |
Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness launched a campaign to push small grain farmers to modernize or perish, or as Nixon's secretary of agriculture Earl Butz put it, "get big or get out." But 27-y… |
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead
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Ben Falk |
The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a comprehensive how-to manual that will help you select, design, develop, and manage land for self-reliance and regeneration, and presents a thriving model for pro… |
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The new farmers almanac 2017
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Severine Von Tscharner Fleming |
This volume explores the theme of The Commons, drawing from folklore, mathematical projections, empirical, emotional, and geographical observations of theory and praxis. Farmers hold space in many in… |
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Highgrove
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Charles Clover,HRH Prince of Wales |
Description and use of the estate at Highgrove. |
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Farming technology
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Lambert, Mark |
Discusses machines, breeding, chemicals, artificial insemination, fertilizers, pesticides, and other technology employed in modern farming and considers their effects on our environment and on the fu… |
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Land use and abuse
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D. J. Herda |
Describes the environmental impact of land use, showing how careless development leads to loss of agricultural lands and animal and plant species and causes deforestation, desertification, and urban … |
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