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Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic
Springer 2012; US$ 189.99Science Agriculture and Research
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 51.95Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and GMOs, as well as pesticides and herbicides, is big business - agribusiness. This book looks at the crucial roles of funding and the political context on the research agenda... more...
Contested Agronomy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 35.95The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural research. Contested Agronomy addresses these issues... more...
Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
OECD Publishing 2012; US$ 168.00This conference proceedings from the OECD Conference on Agricultural Knowledge Systems (AKS), held in Paris, on 15-17 June 2011, discusses a large range of experiences and approaches to AKS explores how to foster development and adoption of innovation to meet global food security and climate change challenges. The conference considered developments... more...
Fields of Learning
The University Press of Kentucky 2011; US$ 40.00Where will the next generation of farmers come from? What will their farms look like? Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America provides a concrete set of answers to these urgent questions, describing how, at a wide range of colleges and universities across the United States and Canada, students, faculty, and staff have joined... more...
Gun Digest Book of Tactical Weapons Assembly/Disassembly
F+W Media 2011; US$ 24.99Assault and tactical weapons make up a very large and rapidly growing segment of the firearms owned today. Like other books in the well-respected series, this book shows the reader a detailed, step-by-step process for completely assembling or disassembling these types of firearms. This book is an invaluable tool for anyone, from the enthusiast to... more...
Challenges for Agricultural Research
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 123.00As the world has changed during the past 50 years, so has agriculture. And so has agricultural research, which continues to confront new challenges, from food security to ecological concerns to land use issues. Indeed, as Guy Paillotin, the former president of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) has noted, agricultural research... more...
Advances in Agronomy
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 188.00Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad of subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. * Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture * Presents... more...
Agricultural Extension Worldwide Innovations
Oxford Book Co. 2010; US$ 50.00Agricultural extension was once known as the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through fanner education. The field of extension now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by professionals from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural... more...
Righteous Porkchop
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., first asked Nicolette Hahn Niman to head up his environmental organization's "hog campaign," she balked. Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the glamorous assignment she pictured when leaving everything to work for him in New York. But Kennedy, she discovered, is not a man who takes no for an answer. Thus... more...









