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Conserving Agriculture
GeneTech Books 2007; US$ 50.00Conservation agriculture refers to a range of soil management practices that minimise effects on composition, structure and natural biodiversity and reduce erosion and degradation. It hold tremendous potential for all sizes of farms and agro-ecological systems, but its adoption is perhaps most urgently required by smallholder farmers, especially those... more...
Sustainable Agroecosystem Management
CRC Press 2009; US$ 99.95Examines the challenges for developing integrated approaches to the management of agricultural ecosystems. Providing historical background of attempts to bridge the ecological and agricultural sciences, this book highlights efforts to integrate natural and social science perspectives. more...
Food and Environment
WIT Press 2011; US$ 220.00The many advances in food production over the past century have made it possible to feed the whole of humanity. But food production and processing can have detrimental effects on the environment. Major challenges remain with industrial-scale farming. Higher productivity and larger volumes should not come at the expense of product quality or animal... more...
Commercial Forest Plantations on Saline Lands
CSIRO Publishing 2000; US$ 120.00Provides information that will allow users to recover salt-degraded land with selected plantation timbers and ultimately to make a profit. more...
What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife?
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 34.95Brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity. more...
Introduction to Wildlife Conservation in Farming
Wiley 2010; US$ 65.95This book provides an invaluable, comprehensive and practical introduction to conservation issues associated with current farming practice. Representing both industry and conservation as an integrated and holistic system, it explores conservation issues within every farming discipline; from arable and horticulture to grasslands, woodlands, aquatic... more...
Nature's Matrix
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 34.95Landscapes are frequently seen as fragments of natural habitat surrounded by a 'sea' of agriculture. But recent ecological theory shows that the nature of these fragments is not nearly as important for conservation as is the nature of the matrix of agriculture that surrounds them. Local extinctions from conservation fragments are inevitable and must... more...
ENVIRONMENT & FOOD
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth?s resources. Having a better idea of the consequences of our food choices might encourage us... more...
From the Corn Belt to the Gulf
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 45.00Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico?s 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help alleviate this problem, and at the same time improve... more...
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