Sustainable agriculture

This book offers the reader a comprehensive guide to growing grain in arid areas, exploring in detail the various problems and how they can be overcome.

The importance of balanced crop nutrition as a national imperative, essential to double farm income, is well recognized over the decades.

Taken from the sixty-fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, this is an analysis of the importance of honey in the early twentieth century.

Addresses the complex issue and inter-relationship between farming practices and wildlife, post-Brexit.

La información contenida en este documento es el resultado de las experiencias técnicas e investigativas obtenidas por el Centro de Investigaciones y Asesorías Agroindustriales, CIAA, de la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano a través de la actividad desarrollada en el proyecto creación de un Sistema Asociativo para la Producción Ecológica Certificada de Frutas y Hortalizas de Clima Frío, desarrollado con el auspicio de ASOHOFRUCOL.

When a disaster occurs, timely support for recovery and reconstruction efforts is critical to minimize long-term setbacks to sustainable and inclusive socioeconomic development.

Is the future of food looking bleak or better than ever?

Agriculture is a topic not normally discussed in kindergarten or preschool.

Let's pretend to be farmers for a day!

Have you ever been to a farm?

El Centro de Investigaciones y Asesorías Agroindustriales (CIAA) de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano tiene en el Programa Manejo Integrado de Plagas (MIP) un punto de referencia importante que se manifiesta en la obra del grupo de investigadores que hacen parte de él: rigurosidad científica en el estudio del problema y presentación amable de los resultados, iniciando con conceptos básicos de la agricultura ecológica para llegar a las aplicaciones específicas propias del producto objeto de estudio.

la Cooperativa Agroindustrial La Mana EUROFRESH, y la segunda con la actividad de la palma de aceite: la Cooperativa de Palmicultores de Colombia Copalcol.

An olive farmer journeys through Spain, Italy, and North Africa to find the future of agriculture in an age of chemicals and climate challenges.

Farming is fun, especially if you're growing the most popular and healthy foods you see in the grocery.

This is for all the future veterinarians, agriculturists or just plain animal-lovers of the world.

Soil, sun and seeds - these are the ingredients to create a green world.

Notice that in schools, subjects like math and science are at the top of the list.

Where does food come from?

These days, food comes out frozen.

For a child who has lived in the city for most his/her life, this book will be a great eye opener.

Where does all the food in the world come from?

Learn to appreciate healthy food with the help of this wonderful educational resource.

In the day and age of instant gratification, it is important that your child learn the value of patience and hard work through agriculture.

¿De qué consta un sistema de información que brinde soporte a procesos de abastecimiento de alimentos y seguridad alimentaria de una región?

From the bestselling author of The Market Gardener - key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scaleMicrofarms is a guide to setting up and running profitable small-scale vegetable farms using organic, low-tech, and highly intensive production methods grounded in ecological principles.

Beni-Amer cattle owners in the western part of the Horn of Africa are not only masters in cattle breeding, they are also knowledge sovereign, in terms of owning productive genes of cattle and the cognitive knowledge base crucial to sustainable development.

Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions.

The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic.

Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference enabling soil scientists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, land holders and others involved in land management to better understand a range of soil test methods and interpret the results of these tests.