Resources Tagged: Alternative Agriculture
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20/04/2017 Agroecology for food sovereignty Food versus the big city of Istanbul Human-centred agriculture fighting exploitation and racism Food sovereignty taking root in women's knowledge Locally rooted ideas and initiatives from the field The vitality of everyday food Food sovereignty stories from...
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Offers a practical, action-oriented approach designed to alleviate famine through the use of organic gardening techniques, changes in crops, and the avoidance of pesticides.
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1/01/1989 This volume includes 11 case studies that describe in detail the practices and performance of alternative farming systems in the United States. Case studies range from rice production in California to a mixed crop and livestock farm in southwest Iowa to fresh-market vegetable production in...
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By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil—few of us...
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1/01/1991 A collection of reports on successfully promoting the linking up of small-scale, experimental farmers so that they can learn from one another. 270 pages, illustrations
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1/01/1993 It is estimated that there are about 500 million small farmers throughout the developing world. Conventional scientific research and extension programmes have emphasized high-input approaches geared to modernizing small farm agriculture and, often, technological packages developed at experiment...