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Reconnecting Marketsby Estelle Biénabe; Julio Berdegué; Lucian Peppelenbos
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Reconnecting Markets is the second volume of case examples from the Regoverning Markets Project, (2005-2007). It focuses on the keys to inclusion of small scale farmers and rural SMEs into dynamic national and regional markets. The cases document specific arrangements that appear to have played a positive role in supporting greater inclusion, such as public policies and business initiatives, collective action by farmers and support from development agencies. more...
Farming Meat Goatsby Barbara Vincent
CSIRO Publishing 2005; US$ 54.95A comprehensive producer's guide to the breeding, husbandry and marketing of goats for meat. more...
Interpreting Soil Test Resultsby Pam Hazelton; Brian Murphy
CSIRO Publishing 2007; US$ 54.95A handy, practical reference for anyone needing fast access to guidelines for interpreting soil test results. more...
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resourcesby NJ McKenzie; MJ Grundy; R Webster; AJ Ringrose-Voase
CSIRO Publishing 2008; US$ 125.00Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia. more...
Wisdom of the Last Farmerby David Mas Masumoto
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 10.99It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he... more...
Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbookby The Soil
CSIRO Publishing 2009; US$ 52.95Specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations. more...
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 12501450by Bruce M. S. Campbell
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 59.00This is the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. more...
Crop Ecologyby David J. Connor; Robert S. Loomis; Kenneth G. Cassman
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 52.00A detailed exploration of the impact of environmental conditions and management on crops, resource requirements and soil resources. more...
Intellectual Property, Agriculture and Global Food Securityby Claudio Chiarolla
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00This well-researched book focuses on international governance of crop diversity and agricultural innovation. It highlights the implications that the future control of food, including access to agricultural resources and technologies, might have for global food security. Claudio Chiarolla analyses developmental implications of global regulatory reforms that impact on access to agricultural knowledge, science and technology for sustainable development. Current global arrangements fall short of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals' framework. Therefore, the book proposes ways to achieve international equity in the way agricultural research is conducted, how its results are... more...
Determination of Organic Compounds in Soils, Sediments and Sludgesby T.R. Crompton
Spon Press 1999; US$ 300.00This text provides a guide to the applicability of techniques in certain environments, the pros and cons of methods, interference and the sensitivity of particular techniques of organics compounds in environments. more...