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  • Climate Change and Global Food Security

    Edición de Rattan Lal, Norman Uphoff, B.A. Stewart, David O. Hansen ...
    In order to feed their burgeoning populations, developing nations will need to double cereal production by the year 2050. This increase will have to come from existing land, as little potential exists for bringing new land under cultivation -- a daunting prospect when one realizes that increased use and significantly higher concentrations of carbon ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture

    Climate Change and Sustainability in Agriculture

    Edición de Rattan Lal, David Kraybill, David O. Hansen, Bal Ram Singh, Theodosy Mosogoya, Lars Olav Eik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This 35-chapter book is based on several oral and poster presentations including both invited and contributory chapters. The book is thematically based on four pillars of sustainability, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Environment, Economic, Social and Institutional. The environmental sustainability, which determines economic and social/institutional sustainability, refers to the rate of ... Leer más

    $188.09 USD

  • Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa

    Edición de Rattan Lal, Bal Ram Singh, Dismas L. Mwaseba, David Kraybill, David O. Hansen, Lars Olav Eik ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands ... Leer más

    $98.09 USD

  • Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World

    Edición de Rattan Lal, David O. Hansen, Norman Uphoff ...
    Can developing countries meet the food requirements of their growing populations without jeopardizing a natural resource base that is already under great stress? Can increases in food production achieved in the past two decades be sustained in the next two decades? Can developing countries achieve freedom from hunger and malnutrition ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Vandana Shiva Reader

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings—with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential environmental and anti-globalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial ... Leer más

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  • Seed Sovereignty, Food Security

    Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

    Edición de Vandana Shiva ...
    In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system that is better aligned with ecological processes as well as human health and global social justice. Seed Sovereignty, Food Security ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ecological Hoofprint

    The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edición de C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Leer más

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  • Reclaiming the Commons

    Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Titans of Industrial Agriculture

    How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters

    de Jennifer Clapp ...
    Series series One Planet
    How a small handful of giant transnational corporations has come to dominate the farm inputs sector, why it matters, and what can be done about it.Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although agricultural inputs are a huge sector of the global economy, the lion’s share of that market is ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD