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Biofuel Crop Sustainability
Wiley 2013; US$ 199.95Biofuel Crop Sustainability brings together the basic principles of agricultural sustainability and special stipulations for biofuels, from the economic and ecological opportunities and challenges of sustainable biofuel crop production to the unique characteristics of particular crops which make them ideal for biofuel applications. This book will... more...
Nature and Farming
CSIRO Publishing 2013; US$ 69.95Outlines the key issues in developing and implementing practical approaches to safeguarding native biodiversity in rural areas. more...
Finding Good Farmland
Storey Publishing, LLC 2013; US$ 2.99Buying your first farm can be a challenge. This practical guide contains all of the information you need to have before purchasing farmland, covering everything from the characteristics of the land (soil type, slope, water sources, drainage) and the surrounding area to permits, codes, taxes, roads, loans, mortgages, government assistance programs,... 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...
Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions
New Society Publishers 2013; US$ 24.95Off-the-wall solutions for real farmstead problems more...
Sustainable Dairy Production
Wiley 2013; US$ 214.50This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines. It aims to stimulate process innovations, taking into account... 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...
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...
Food Rebellions
Food First Books 2012; US$ 11.99Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going... more...









