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  • Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development

    Edited by Sieglinde Snapp, Barry Pound ...
    Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development is a comprehensive source for developing sustainable farming systems. With the inclusion of research theory and examples using the principles of cropping system design, students will gain a unique understanding of the technical, biological, ecological, economic, and sociological aspects of farming systems science for rural ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development

    Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development

    Edited by Sieglinde Snapp, Barry Pound ...
    Agricultural Systems, Second Edition, is a comprehensive text for developing sustainable farming systems. It presents a synthetic overview of the emerging area of agroecology applications to transforming farming systems and supporting rural innovation, with particular emphasis on how research can be harnessed for sustainable agriculture. The inclusion of research theory and examples using the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods

    Uniting Science and Participation

    by Ann Braun ...
    Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and circumstances. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods analyses and extends this premise to show unequivocally that the process of research for improving natural resource management must ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Can We Feed the World?

    by Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Ecological Hoofprint

    The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

    by Tony Weis ...
    The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World's Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured. The report synthesizes the work of some 200 soil scientists from 60 countries. It ... Read more

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  • ENVIRONMENT & FOOD

    by Colin Sage ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    This timely book provides a thorough introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. Its primary purpose is to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth’s resources. Having a better idea of the consequences of our food choices might encourage us to develop more sustainable practices of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Transition to Agro-Ecology

    For a Food Secure World

    by Jelleke de Nooy van Tol ...
    Our global agricultural and food system is broken and needs to transition to one that is more sustainable and beneficial to the worlds population. This seems hard in the face of the linked challenges of climate change, natural resource depletion, and worldwide economic and social upheaval. At the same time, farmer-led social movements are growing, and there is increasing recognition that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • World Livestock: Transforming the Livestock Sector through the Sustainable Development Goals

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The publication is intended to serve as a reference framework for Member States as they move forward to realize livestock's potentially major contribution to the Agenda 2030.For decades, the livestock debate has focused on how to increase production in a sustainable manner. However, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has shifted the emphasis from fostering sustainable production per se ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Sustainable Food

    Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

    Edited by Nicoletta Batini ...
    Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous global economic losses in terms of malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation. But because the food industry does not bear those costs and the price tag for these losses does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, And Trade-Offs

    by World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Biobased Economy

    Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era

    Edited by Johan Sanders, Marieke Meeusen, Hans Langeveld ...
    The impending threats of catastrophic climate change and peak oil are driving our society towards increased use of biomass for energy, chemical compounds and other materials - the beginnings of a biobased economy. As alternative development models for the biobased economy emerge, we need to determine potential applications, their perspectives and possible impacts as well as policies that can steer ... Read more

    $70.99 USD