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  • Agrimonde – Scenarios and Challenges for Feeding the World in 2050

    Edited by Sébastien Treyer, Bruno Dorin, Sandrine Paillard ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems? In this perspective, INRA and CIRAD launched the initiative, in 2006, to develop a foresight project for analysing issues pertaining to the world's food and agricultural systems on the 2050 timeline. This book provides a synthetic presentation of the main conclusions that this foresight project ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Agriculture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Brassley, Richard Soffe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand what is happening in the fields that we see as we drive through the countryside? How often do we think about the origins of the food in our trolley? In this Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Precision Agriculture for Grain Production Systems

    by James Taylor, Brett Whelan ...
    Precision Agriculture (PA) is an approach to managing the variability in production agriculture in a more economic and environmentally efficient manner. It has been pioneered as a management tool in the grains industry, and while its development and uptake continues to grow amongst grain farmers worldwide, a broad range of other cropping industries have embraced the concept. This book explains ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Introduction to Agricultural Economics

    by Lewis Cecil Gray ...
    This book contains a vintage handbook on farm economics, with information on different farming systems, machinery, marketing produce, buying equipment, keeping records, and much more. Although old, much of the information contained within this book is timeless and will be of considerable utility to modern prospective farmers. Contents include: “The Nature and Scope of Agricultural Economics”, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feedpads for Grazing Dairy Cows

    by John Moran, Scott McDonald ...
    This book is the first detailed and comprehensive guide to the use of feedpads in the dairy industry, from planning and construction to day-to-day management, written especially for farmers. With ongoing droughts and access to water driving up the cost of conserved forages and feeding concentrates, feedpads offer flexible and efficient systems to maximise returns on feeding expensive supplements ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Federal Data Science

    Transforming Government and Agricultural Policy Using Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Feras A. Batarseh, Ruixin Yang ...
    Federal Data Science serves as a guide for federal software engineers, government analysts, economists, researchers, data scientists, and engineering managers in deploying data analytics methods to governmental processes. Driven by open government (2009) and big data (2012) initiatives, federal agencies have a serious need to implement intelligent data management methods, share their data, and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico

    Public Policy for Reducing Economic Vulnerability

    by Sergio O. Saldaña Zorrilla, PhD ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution

    Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

    Edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social Capital and Local Development

    From Theory to Empirics

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, Elena Pisani, Laura Secco, Giorgio Franceschetti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Union (EU) to an increased risk of social exclusion and poverty, which are now at the heart of its economic, employment and social agenda with explicit reference to rural and marginal areas (Europe 2020). The authors' work from the notion that ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Go Slow and Curvy

    Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phenomenon

    by dehyun sohn, Hee-Jung Jang, Timothy Jung ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions. While many urban communities face economic challenges that clearly show the limitations of growth and ever-increasing speed, this book explores an alternative, thought-provoking standpoint in five chapters. The first chapter explains the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Land Use Competition

    Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives

    Edited by Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller, Tobias Krueger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition.Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Organic Agriculture

    A Global Perspective

    by Acram Taji, John Reganold ...
    With global revenue surpassing twenty-five billion dollars annually, organic agriculture is a highly visible and rapidly growing component of agricultural production. In Organic Agriculture: A Global Perspective, Paul Kristiansen, Acram Taji, and John Reganold, and their international group of contributors scientifically review key aspects of organic agriculture. At the intersection of research, ... Read more

    $79.19 USD