Resources Tagged: Ecology

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  1. The Permaculture Handbook

    2012-06-26 The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if thirty million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply ecological design principles to food, housing,...
    Ecology Case Studies Permaculture

  2. Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Sustainable Upland Farming

    Key Resource 2007-05-25 This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous diversity of shifting cultivation systems as well as the power of human ingenuity. Environmentalists have tended to disparage shifting...
    Ecology Indigenous Peoples Traditional farming Shifting cultivation Sustainable Agricu... Fallow lands Forest degradation

  3. Conservation and Food Security Issues

    2017-02-08 Conflicts abound with conservation and food security issues. Solutions and best practices will be shared. Presenter :Dr. James Kahurananga was the past director of the Africa Wildlife Foundation, and has 50 years experience in the field of conservation of biodiversity within Tanzania, Kenya,...
    conservation Food Security Ecology Biodiversity Wildlife East Africa

  4. Farmer-led research on agroecology and nutrition in Malawi and Tanzania

    2017-11-15 Agroecology is a holistic approach to farming which takes into account social, environmental, and health concerns of food production. A long-term participatory research project with smallholder farmers in Malawi and Tanzania using agroecology will be discussed. In this research project, farmers...
    Agroecology Ecology

  5. Fundamentals of ecology

    This book has two purposes: to serve as a textbook in a college course, especially one designed to precede courses in plant ecology, vertebrate ecology, microbial ecology, marine ecology, etcs., as well as various applied phases and to serve as a reference for the specialist, the naturalist and...
    Ecology

  6. On the brink of extinction: conserving the diversity of life

    Decisions made over the next decaide--the "Decade of the Tropics"--will establish the terms of humanity's coexistence with the millions of species with which we share the planet. Though the consequences of evolutionary negligence loom large, the tools with which to exercise evolutionary...
    Natural resources Ecology Brodwersity Conser...

  7. New roots for agriculture (Rev. ed.)

    1985-01-01 150 pages Offers a sound, throughly documented criticism of the assumptions and the effects of industrial agriculture
    agriculture Ecology

  8. Rainforest Politics: Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia

    1990-01-01 In each of these six case studies-the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Burma- the author sets out the environmental, human and economic consequences of forest destruction. He shows how its causes are rooted in an exploitation of natural resources for Western...
    Lumber Ecology Rain Forest Conser... Southeast Asia Deforestation Rainforest

  9. The Ecology of Tropical Food Crops

    In tropical developing countries farmers tend to grow a wide range of crops in a small area for subsistence or sale. To make full use of often limited resources, a good understanding of how environmental conditions affect the characteristics and performance of these crops is essential. This book...
    Ecology Food Crops

  10. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida

    1998-01-01 The most comprehensive field guide available to the flora and fauna of Florida--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of...
    Ecology Wildlife Habitat I... Physical Geology Natural History Florida