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Corn Meets Maize
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 74.99Corn Meets Maize links the everyday practices of growing, cooking, and exchanging food in specific cultural, economic, and ecological contexts to broader social movements in Mexico and beyond. The local food networks Lauren E. Baker explores in Mexico are rich examples of contemporary agricultural and culinary transformations; they also reveal... more...
Agricultural Sustainability
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 79.95Collaboratively written by top international experts and established scientists in various fields of agricultural research, this book focuses on the state of food production and sustainability; the problems with degradation of valuable sources of land, water, and air and their effects on food crops; the increasing demand of food resources; and the... more...
The Economics of Regulation in Agriculture
CABI 2012; US$ 160.00This work debates and investigates the cross-compliance system - whereby farmers comply with certain standards relating to the environment, food safety and animal and plant health. The book discusses cross-compliance in the context of existing standards, on-farm costs and the competitiveness of farm businesses. Analysing the economics of regulation... more...
This Common Ground
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 14.00In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborg's The Rural Life , This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the country's first community-supported farms. By reflecting on four seasons of activity at his beloved Quail Hill Farm in eastern Long... more...
Food and the City
Prometheus Books 2012; US$ 11.99A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands?and in our cities. When you?re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it?s hard to imagine that you?re looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is really a façade. In fact, there?s just a three-day supply... more...
Land Use Intensification
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 52.45Can science suggest new approaches to reducing the conflict between productive land use and biodiversity conservation? more...
Sustainable Market Farming
New Society Publishers 2013; US$ 34.95Growing for 100 ? the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. more...
The Complete Organic Pregnancy
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99While being pregnant is thrilling, the responsibility of a growing baby can provoke anxiety about what is and isn't safe. In The Complete Organic Pregnancy , Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu address how you can minimize your exposure to the invisible toxins that surround us—in everything from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics to furniture,... more...
Urban Farming
BowTie Inc. 2011; US$ 24.95It doesn?t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don?t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, will walk every city and suburban dweller... more...
Green Wizardry
New Society Publishers 2013; US$ 18.95Tested skills for thriving in the age of limits more...









