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The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture Explore the benefits of and necessity for sustainable agriculture!Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. The Next Green Revolution presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural system and an introduction to an alternative system which gives more consideration to future generations. Interwoven through the book are Dr. Horne’s reflections on social justice, quality of life, and how farmers and rural communities are inextricably linked.The Next Green Revolution draws on the unique perspective of Dr. James E. Horne, President of a leading nonprofit agriculture organization, the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. It is inspired by his experience as a traditional agriculturalist and educator coming to grips with…. Click here to Read More

Economics: Applications to Agriculture and Agribusiness (4th Edition) PLEASE PROVIDE COURSE INFORMATION This text is designed to improve the learning of economics and how it applies to agriculture. This edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect agricultural economics in today’s world. At the same time, it continues to present concise explanations of such timeless topics as micro- and macro-economic theory, market structure, and supply and demand interaction. List Price: $ 78.40 Price: $ 71.44 Related…. Click here to Read More

Economics: Applications to Agriculture and Agribusiness (4th Edition) PLEASE PROVIDE COURSE INFORMATION This text is designed to improve the learning of economics and how it applies to agriculture. This edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect agricultural economics in today’s world. At the same time, it continues to present concise explanations of such timeless topics as micro- and macro-economic theory, market structure, and supply and demand interaction. List Price: $ 78.40 Price: $…. Click here to Read More

Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical, economic, and political lenses. But as William Conlogue demonstrates, some of the most vital and incisive debates on the subject have occurred in a site that is perhaps less obvious–literature. Conlogue refutes the critical tendency to treat farm-centered texts as pastorals, arguing that such an approach overlooks the diverse ways these works explore human relationships to the land. His readings of works by Willa Cather, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, John Steinbeck, Luis Valdez, Ernest Gaines, Jane Smiley, Wendell Berry, and others reveal that, through agricultural narratives, authors have addressed such…. Click here to Read More

Farming in Nature’s Image: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture “ÿ Farming in Nature’s Image” provides, for the first time, a detailed look into the pioneering work of The Land Institute, the leading educational and research organization for sustainable agriculture.The authors draw on case studies, hands-on experience, and research results to explain the applications of a new system of agriculture based on one unifying concept: that farms should mimic the ecosystems in which they exist. They present both theoretical and practical information, including: a review of the environmental degradation resulting from current farming practices a critical evaluation of the attempts to solve these problems a detailed description of the ecosystem perspective and the proposed new agricultural system a case study illustrating how this new system could be applied to temperate grain production using perennial seed crops and the prairie as a model an examination of the potential savings in…. Click here to Read More

American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today’s concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture. Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs,…. Click here to Read More

Biodiversity, Biofuels, Agroforestry and Conservation Agriculture (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews) Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues, and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future…. Click here to Read More

Russia: prolonged rains make difficult to harvest in the south – Ministry of Agriculture Agrarian of the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts of the Russian Federation harvested grains throughout 225 thsd ha (harvesting of winter barley and wheat). Read more on…. Click here to Read More

Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering systems that convert agricultural crops and residues into bioenergy and biobased products. Leading the way as the first textbook for coursework on biobased products, Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture covers not only pertinent technologies but offers a primer on necessary foundation subjects the student or other reader may lack: organic chemistry, thermodynamics, plant science, crop production, environmental science, and process economics. Of special value to those working or planning to work in the field are compilations of bioresource properties, such as production yields, bulk densities and moisture content, summative analysis of plant materials, and chemical conversion yields. By defining…. Click here to Read More