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Author | : Roberto Pilu |
Publisher | : Bentham Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1681084678 |
More Food: Road to Survival is a comprehensive analysis of agricultural improvements which can be achieved through scientific methods. This reference book gives information about strategies for increasing plant productivity, comparisons of agricultural models, the role of epigenetic events on crop production, yield enhancing physiological events (photosynthesis, germination, seedling emergence, seed properties, etc.), tools enabling efficient exploration of genetic variability, domestication of new species, the detection or induction of drought resistance and apomixes and plant breeding enhancement (through molecularly assisted breeding, genetic engineering, genome editing and next generation sequencing). The book concludes with a case study for the improvement of small grain cereals. Readers will gain an understanding of the biotechnological tools and concepts central to sustainable agriculture More Food: Road to Survival is, therefore, an ideal reference for agriculture students and researchers as well as professionals involved sustainability studies.
Author | : New Zealand. Parliament |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : New Zealand |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rick Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2012-12-25 |
Genre | : Edible forest gardens |
ISBN | : 9781481839778 |
Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for you and your family for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide-- ever. All diguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season!
Author | : Lisa Rosner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135938504 |
The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such "fixes" as artificial hearts, industrial agriculture and climate engineering, these essays examine our need to turn to technology for solutions to all of our problems.
Author | : Corey Ross |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2024-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691261237 |
A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shaped the history of imperialism, and how this imperial past still haunts us today. Spanning the major European empires of the period, Corey Ross describes how new ideas, technologies, and institutions transformed human engagements with water and how the natural world was reshaped in the process. Water was a realm of imperial power whose control and distribution were closely bound up with colonial hierarchies and inequalities—but this vital natural resource could never be fully tamed. Ross vividly portrays the efforts of officials, engineers, fisherfolk, and farmers to exploit water, and highlights its crucial role in the making and unmaking of the colonial order. Revealing how the legacies of empire have persisted long after colonialism ebbed away, Liquid Empire provides needed historical perspective on the crises engulfing the world’s waters, particularly in the Global South, where billions of people are faced with mounting water shortages, rising flood risks, and the relentless depletion of sea life.
Author | : Pierre Crosson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1135984131 |
This book examines the factors affecting the demand for agricultural land in the United States and the costs of meeting increasing demand. Originally published in 1982
Author | : Nick Cullather |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0674058828 |
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
Author | : Lloyd Godman |
Publisher | : PHOTO - synthesis Media |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2023-04-17 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1923026054 |
Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ In 1984 Lloyd Godman conceived the idea of take an expedition of artists to the remote Auckland Island 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, experience the wild environment, create a series of works that would tour New Zealand as a series of exhibitions. While these remote protected islands are most often the domain of scientists, Godman argued that artists are scientists, their research is on an aesthetic and conceptual level. Beset with many problems and political brick walls, the project took years to materialize but with perseverance in 1989, eleven artists visited the Islands in a ground-breaking and highly successful project titled Arts to the Subantarctic. (Including, Bill Hammond and Laurence Aberhart's). Works created by the 11 selected artists were curated into an exhibition that toured art galleries and museums throughout New Zealand for over 2 years. The project was also the first-time woman sailed on a New Zealand Naval vessel. Codes of Survival is Godman’s personal response and contribution to the project, and his first series of work with Photograms. He incorporated sophisticated combination black and white photograph photograms to create unique photographic works. The project cumulated with an accompanying installation with a sound scape by Peter Adams and a series of short stories that related to events on the Subantarctic Islands. It was a watershed event where Godman moved to camera-less photography with projects like Adze to Coda, Evidence from the Religion of Technology, Aporian Emulsions and acted as a catalyst for his interest in photosensitivity that led to his current living art works with plants.
Author | : Avishai Henik |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0128017937 |
Continuous Issues in Numerical Cognition: How Many or How Much re-examines the widely accepted view that there exists a core numerical system within human beings and an innate ability to perceive and count discrete quantities. This core knowledge involves the brain's intraparietal sulcus, and a deficiency in this region has traditionally been thought to be the basis for arithmetic disability. However, new research findings suggest this wide agreement needs to be examined carefully and that perception of sizes and other non-countable amounts may be the true precursors of numerical ability. This cutting-edge book examines the possibility that perception and evaluation of non-countable dimensions may be involved in the development of numerical cognition. Discussions of the above and related issues are important for the achievement of a comprehensive understanding of numerical cognition, its brain basis, development, breakdown in brain-injured individuals, and failures to master mathematical skills. - Serves as an innovative reference on the emerging field of numerical cognition and the branches that converge on this diverse topic - Features chapters from leading researchers in the field - Includes an overview of the multiple disciplines that comprise numerical cognition and discusses the measures that can be used in analysis - Introduces novel ideas that connect non-countable continuous variables to numerical cognition
Author | : Petr Smýkal |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-12-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3039368125 |
Legumes have played an important part as human food and animal feed in cropping systems since the dawn of agriculture. The legume family is arguably one of the most abundantly domesticated crop plant families. Their ability to symbiotically fix nitrogen and improve soil fertility has been rewarded since antiquity and makes them a key protein source. Pea was the original model organism used in Mendel´s discovery of the laws of inheritance, making it the foundation of modern plant genetics. This book based on Special Issue provides up-to-date information on legume biology, genetic advances, and the legacy of Mendel.