Family Farming and the Worlds to Come, Jean-Michel Sourisseau
Автор: Jean-Michel Sourisseau Название: Family Farming and the Worlds to Come ISBN: 9402403809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402403800 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18284.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the "International Year of Family Farming," the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial or company agriculture, supposedly efficient because it follows industrial processes for market-oriented mass production. The second promotes the preservation of family farming with its close links between family and farm. The authors of this book wish to enrich the debates by helping overcome stereotypes - which often manifest through the use of terms such as "small-scale farming, subsistence farming, peasant, etc." Research work has emphatically demonstrated the great adaptability of family farming systems and their ability to meet the major challenges of tomorrow but it has also not overlooked their limitations. The authors explore the choices facing society and possible development trajectories at national and international levels, and the contribution that agriculture will have to make. They call for a recommitment of public policies in favor of family farming in developing countries and stress the importance of planning actions targeted at and tailored to the family character of agricultural models. But, above all, they highlight the need to overcome strictly sectoral rationales, by placing family farming at the core of a broader economic and social project. This book is the result of a collaborative effort led by CIRAD and encapsulates three decades of research on family farming. It will interest researchers, teachers and students, and all those involved in national and international efforts for the development of countries in the South.
Автор: Eric Justes Название: Cover Crops for Sustainable Farming ISBN: 9402409858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402409857 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.
Автор: Ronald Pamela C., Adamchak Raoul W. Название: Tomorrow`s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food ISBN: 0199342083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199342082 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2612.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. Readers see the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals--a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses--and they learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. The book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices, and for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment. The first edition was published in hardcover in 2008 and in paperback in 2009. This second edition reflects the many and varied changes the fields of farming and genetic engineering have seen since 2009. It includes a new preface and three new chapters-one on politics and food-related protests such as the Marin county anti-vaccine movement and the subsequent outbreak of whooping cough, one on farming and food security, and one containing various recipes. Existing chapters on the tools of genetic engineering, organic vs. conventional foods, the tools of organic agriculture, and food labeling and legislature have all been updated.
Автор: Sarah Whatmore Название: Farming Women ISBN: 1349116173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349116171 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents a feminist critique and reconstruction of the political economy of contemporary family farming at a time when the significance of household and kinship to the organisation of production and work in advanced industrial countries is being more widely reassessed.
Описание: One of a series of books analyzing current agricultural issues and knowledge and proposing alternative solutions, this volume examines, inter alia, the environmental benefits of transgenic corn and advanced reclamation techniques for varying soil types.
Автор: Eric Lichtfouse Название: Genetics, Biofuels and Local Farming Systems ISBN: 9400737416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400737419 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28732.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book addresses climate change, rising food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion, proposing novel solutions based on integrated knowledge from a range of disciplines.
Описание: Plants have the potential to provide vast quantities of low-cost medicinal bio-products. Covering the principles of molecular farming, this book summarizes recent advances, elucidates current challenges and suggests useful avenues for future research.
Автор: James Название: Farming on the Fringe ISBN: 3319322338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319322339 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19591.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultural fabric, but also play a critical role in the city’s environmental sustainability. In the battle for urban space housing development threatens to turn these farmlands into sprawling suburbia. In thinking from and with the urban ‘fringe’, this book moves beyond the housing versus farming debate to present a vision for urban growth that is dynamic and alive to the needs of the 21st century city. In a unique bringing together of the twin forces shaping contemporary urbanism - environmental change and global population flows - the voices from the fringe demand to be heard in the debate on future urban food sustainability.
Автор: Ika Darnhofer; David Gibbon; Beno?t Dedieu Название: Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic ISBN: 9401783578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401783576 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28732.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offering an overview of 20 years of farming systems research, this book retraces its emergence and development in Europe, summarizes the state of the art, and examines new explorations into farming systems and their interaction with the natural environment.
Автор: Lisa Ringhofer Название: Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon ISBN: 9400790872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400790872 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18284.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The society-nature interaction of the Tsimane`, an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon, is analyzed and presented as an empirical case study in this review. Socioecological research methods are used to address the challenges and constraints in the field.
Автор: Hermann J. Heege Название: Precision in Crop Farming ISBN: 9400794452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400794450 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: High yields and environmental control in crop farming call for precise adaptations to local growing conditions. Treating large fields in a uniform way by high capacity machinery cannot be regarded as a sustainable method for many situations. Because differences existing within single fields must be considered. The transition from former field work carried out manually or by small implements to present-day high-capacity machinery caused that the farmers lost the immediate and close contact with soils and crops. However, modern sensing and controlling technology can make up for this deficit. High tech methods that include proximal sensing and signals from satellites can provide for controls that allow adjusting farming operations to small fractions of one ha and sometimes even down to some m2, hence in a site-specific mode. This applies to operations for soil cultivation, sowing, fertilizing and plant protection. This book deals with site-specific concepts, applications and results.
Автор: Crawford Claire Название: Family Background and University Success ISBN: 019968913X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199689132 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6255.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The volume examines why young people from poorer families are less likely to go to university than their counterparts in richer families, the impact of the 2006 and 2012 reforms, who does best at university once they are there, and who succeeds in the labour market following graduation.
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