Sustainable agriculture

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.

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

Where does all the food in the world come from?

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

Let's pretend to be farmers for a day!

Where does food come from?

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

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

It is known that conventional agriculture with the use of inputs and agrochemicals is not sustainable in time, causing numerous problems such as contamination of food, people and environment.

Specifically, this book features detailed information about tomato production, water supply and cork production compiled in three different chapters.

Valorising Seaweed By-Products is a book that has been divided into 9 chapters, including information on the recovery of highly valuable compounds for microalgae.

The presented book describes the results of the research of the project titled 'Phosphorus Renewable Raw Materials - A Resource Base for the New Generation of Fertilizers' attributed to the National Center for Research and Development of Poland.

How to maximize your food production in an urban environment.

How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.

In light of public concerns about sustainable food production, the necessity for human and environmental protection, along with the evolution of herbicide resistant weeds, call for a review of current weed control strategies.

Plant diseases and changes in existing pathogens remain a constant threat to our forests, food, and fiber crops as well as landscape plants.

Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy.

Agroecology is defined as the application of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems.

Sustaining our agricultural landscapes is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem, but it has evolved into a socially complex, so-called wicked problem of conflicting social governance and economics.

Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock as a supplement or drought reserve.

Using the lens of nutrition security and equity for the living beings and living systems of the planet, Nutrition Security for Planetary Health takes an integrated, systems approach that not only delineates the antecedents of the multifaceted environmental crises-but offers solutions including the extensive co-benefits of whole plant foods nutrition as the foundational dietary pattern for improving planetary health.

Farm finance is a topic that is not often discussed but is vital to the success and longevity of these unique family businesses.

A changing climate is causing challenges for soil and water management in many parts of the world.

Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years.

Population growth alone dictates that global food supplies must increase by over 50% in coming decades.

Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size.

Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines provides a clear understanding of vineyard soils and how to manage and improve soil health for best vineyard performance.

The city of Perth is well known and treasured for its areas of protected bushland in the heart of the city.

The city of Perth is well known and treasured for its areas of protected bushland in the heart of the city.

Earth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed.

Interest in biochar among soil and environment researchers has increased dramatically over the past decade.

Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fibre being produced on this continent have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way.

Our capacity to maintain world food production depends heavily on the thin layer of soil covering the Earth's surface.

Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms.

Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability.

We are currently facing significant challenges in environmental management that must be addressed to maintain the health of our planet and our population.

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it.

The greater Perth coast is a biodiverse and ecologically vulnerable region, with its unique native plant species threatened by clearing, invasive species, fire and climate change.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

Meeting future food needs without compromising environmental integrity is a central challenge for agriculture globally but especially for the Asia Pacific region - where 60% of the global population, including some of the world's poorest, live on only 30% of the land mass.

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience.

Are you wishing you knew how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and books on the topic?

Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia's agricultural landscapes.

Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes.

Peri-urban landscapes are some of the world's most vulnerable areas.

Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world.