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Building an ecosystem approach to aquaculture
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FAO/Universitat de les Illes Balears Expert Workshop (2007 Palma de Mallorca, Spain) |
520 Aquaculture growth worldwide involves the expansion of cultivated areas, a higher density of aquaculture installations and farmed individuals, and greater use of feed resources produced outside … |
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Food for a greener planet
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Lisa A. Wroble |
"Read about how food goes from field to fork, how food is grown, problems with farming techniques, and sustainable farming"--Provided by publisher. |
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Building the green economy
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Kevin Danaher |
After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are cri… |
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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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Globalisation and agricultural landscapes
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Jørgen Primdahl |
"Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging und… |
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Homegrown whole grains
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Sara Pitzer |
A backyard field of grains? Yes, absolutely! Wheat and corn are rapidly replacing grass in the yards of dedicated locavores across the country. For adventurous homeowners who want to get in on the mo… |
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Citizen farmers
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Daron Joffe |
"In this engaging call to action, Daron Joffe teaches us not only to create sustainable gardens but also to develop a more holistic, community-minded approach to how our food is grown and how to bett… |
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Organic struggle
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Brian K. Obach |
"In the early 1970s, organic farming was an obscure agricultural practice, associated with the counterculture rather than commerce. Today, organic agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry; orga… |
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Food and agriculture
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Louise Spilsbury |
Feeding the world - Food chains - Croplands around the world - Cereals - Fruit and vegetables - Drinks - Animals for food - Fish farming - Food and transport - Family farms - The changing face of far… |
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From the Farm to the Table
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Gary H. Holthaus |
In From the Farm to the Table, over forty farm families from America's heartland detail the practices and values that relate to their land, work, and communities. Their stories reveal that those who … |
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Planting a future
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John Clark Vincent |
If you care about food, you care about farmers. But the farmers profiled in this book are not the corporate agribusiness people who put money and politics above health. These folks are working to hea… |
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Just food
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James E. McWilliams |
We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically m… |
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