Agriculture Overview
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Department of Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Agnes R. Quisumbing |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 940178616X |
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of what we know now about gender gaps in agriculture.
Author | : Coen Reijntjes |
Publisher | : MacMillan Education, Limited |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Part I: low-external-input and sustainable agriculture (leisa): an emerging option; Agriculture and sustainability; Sustainability and farmers: making decisions at the farm level; Technology development by farmers; Part II: Priciples and possibilities of leisa; Low-external-input farming and agroecology; Basic ecological principles of leisa; Development of leisa systems; Part III: Linking farmers and scientists in developing leisa technologies; Actors and actitities in developing leisa technologies; Participatory technology development in practice: process and methods; Appendices; Appendix A some promising leisa techniques and practices; Appendix B glossary of key terms; Appendix C useful contacts and sources of further information; References; Index.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781585762378 |
Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Author | : Qin Zhang |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1000218988 |
This book provides a review of precision agriculture technology development, followed by a presentation of the state-of-the-art and future requirements of precision agriculture technology. It presents different styles of precision agriculture technologies suitable for large scale mechanized farming; highly automated community-based mechanized production; and fully mechanized farming practices commonly seen in emerging economic regions. The book emphasizes the introduction of core technical features of sensing, data processing and interpretation technologies, crop modeling and production control theory, intelligent machinery and field robots for precision agriculture production.
Author | : United States General Accounting of Gao |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2019-03-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781090745378 |
Agriculture Overview: U.S. Food/Agriculture in a Volatile World Economy
Author | : Fred Magdoff |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1583673903 |
The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world’s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the contributors to this volume share a focus on investigating how agricultural production is shaped by a system that is oriented around the creation of profit above all else, with food as nothing but an afterthought. As the authors make clear, it is technically possible to feed to world’s people, but it is not possible to do so as long as capitalism exists. Toward that end, they examine what can be, and is being, done to create a human-centered and ecologically sound system of food production, from sustainable agriculture and organic farming on a large scale to movements for radical land reform and national food sovereignty. This book will serve as an indispensible guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to be increasingly understood as food politics.
Author | : Joachim Von Braun |
Publisher | : International Food Policy Research Insitute |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.