Alternatives In Agriculture
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Alternative Agriculture
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1989-02-01
Alternative Agriculture written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-02-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
More and more farmers are adopting a diverse range of alternative practices designed to reduce dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics; cut costs; increase profits; and reduce the adverse environmental consequences of agricultural production. Alternative Agriculture describes the increased use of these new practices and other changes in agriculture since World War II, and examines the role of federal policy in encouraging this evolution, as well as factors that are causing farmers to look for profitable, environmentally safe alternatives. Eleven case studies explore how alternative farming methods have been adoptedâ€"and with what economic resultsâ€"on farms of various sizes from California to Pennsylvania.
Agricultural Research Alternatives
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Author : William Lockeretz
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Agricultural Research Alternatives written by William Lockeretz and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Clearly, the debate is no longer over agricultural sustainability as a legitimate goal, but about how to fulfill that goal. Research is a vital factor contributing to the creation of a sustainable agriculture. Entrenched ideas about the way agricultural research is conducted have been challenged by farmers, environmentalists, food-safety advocates, rural activists, and others. ø William Lockeretz and Molly D. Anderson meet these challenges and chart a reasoned course through the fray. They analyze the potential and the limits of various research approaches associated with alternative agriculture: multidisciplinary research, application of ecological principles in understanding agricultural systems, emphasis on the use of agricultural information, use of working farms as research sites, and the involvement of farmers in agricultural research. They also propose reforms in institutional aspects of agricultural research?the organization of academic departments, evaluation of professional achievement, functioning of grant programs, and the education of agricultural researchers.
Agroecology
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Author : Miguel A Altieri
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1987-09-15
Agroecology written by Miguel A Altieri and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
(Westview special studies in agriculture science and policy).
Alternative Agriculture A History
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Author : Joan Thirsk
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1997-10-09
Alternative Agriculture A History written by Joan Thirsk and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10-09 with History categories.
People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.
Alternative Methods Of Agriculture V10
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Author : R Boeringa
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2012-12-02
Alternative Methods Of Agriculture V10 written by R Boeringa and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Alternative Methods of Agriculture is an English translation of a number of parts of ""The Dutch Report on Alternative Agriculture. This book explores not only the relationship between agriculture and the environment, but also the relationship between human beings and society. The book focuses on the role of nature and man in agriculture and environment; the justification of the terms natural and biological; comparisons between alternative agriculture and conventional agriculture; soil fertility; quality of products of alternative agriculture; coping mechanism of alternative agriculture to pests, weeds, diseases and energy problems; economics of alternative systems; and the effect of alternative agriculture on the integration of nature, agriculture and man. The book presents the ideologies that serve as the basis for alternative agriculture, such as A.N.O.G agriculture, biodynamic agriculture, Howard-Balfour agriculture, Lemaire-Boucher agriculture, macrobiotic agriculture, mazdaznan agriculture, organic-biological agriculture, and veganic agriculture. It also explores cultivation methods, including tillage, soil disinfection, fertilizing, composting, soil cover, crop rotation, and multiple cropping.
Bringing The Food Economy Home
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Author : Helena Norberg-Hodge
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2002-10
Bringing The Food Economy Home written by Helena Norberg-Hodge and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield, and Steven Gorelick of the International Society for Ecology and Culture discuss how a shift towards local food economies would protect and rebuild the agricultural diversity that has been lost in the current specialized, capital intensive, technology-based global environment. Coverage includes the history of this change in emphasis from local to global; the ecology of food marketing and production; food and health, the economy, and the community; food security; and changing direction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
New Directions For Agriculture And Agricultural Research
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Author : Kenneth A. Dahlberg
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1986
New Directions For Agriculture And Agricultural Research written by Kenneth A. Dahlberg and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
Ethical and value issues; The global setting: resource, environmental, and socio-economic trends; The national setting: past and present goals and priorities; Assessing neglected dimensions; Evaluative concepts in agricultural research; Emerging alternatives and their implications; Where do we go from here?.
The Basic Principles Of Sustainable Agriculture
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Author : William J. Hudson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Basic Principles Of Sustainable Agriculture written by William J. Hudson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Sustainable agriculture categories.
The Best Of Exploring Sustainable Alternatives
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Author : Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
language : en
Publisher: Saskatoon : Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Release Date : 2001
The Best Of Exploring Sustainable Alternatives written by Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and has been published by Saskatoon : Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Sustainable agriculture categories.
Recognition Based Systems Of Engagement And Exchange For The Development Of Alternative Agriculture
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Author : Tom Fitzsimons
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Recognition Based Systems Of Engagement And Exchange For The Development Of Alternative Agriculture written by Tom Fitzsimons and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This book identifies recognition-based systems of engagement and exchange within current alternative food networks, and demonstrates how these fluid micro-structures are fundamental to the development of alternative farming in an Irish context. The author confronts current prevailing discourse by proposing that internal structures of mutual recognition, rather than the market logic of productivist hybrids, underpin successful alternative farms. By adopting a Vygotskian developmental approach, necessarily grounded in communities of practice, the author recognises the expansion of alternative farming in the social-cultural context of ‘scaling out’, rather than in the clinical economic context of ‘scaling up’ which is currently supported by the Irish state. The book relies on Honneth’s recognition theory and theories of extended cognition as an analytical starting point. Volunteering, participatory observation, and interviewing shaped the immersive component of the research which supports this book, and which is influenced by grounded theory, critical theory and cognitive ethnography.