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  1. Jeffrey D. Sachs A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top...
    339.4 SAC
  2. Franklin W. Martin, Ruth M. Ruberte, Laura S. Meitzner Third Edition [library also has 2 copies of the 1975edition] People interested in tropical gardening or botany will find this an indispensable guide to several hundred species of plants with edible leaves. Leaves can provide high-quality food, and in the tropics, many are from perennials...
    581.632 MAR | PD.004, PD.015
  3. Toby Hemenway Second Edition The first edition of Gaia's Garden, sparked the imagination of Americas home gardeners, introducing permacultures central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition...
    635.048 HEM
  4. Julia Frances Morton This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
    634.091 MOR | PI.006
  5. Daniel Blank This book features both common and hard-to-find fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices and bamboo for Southwest Florida. It includes fruiting trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, fruiting vines, brambles, tropical vegetables, herbs, spices, bamboo, tropical and subtropical fruit tree ripening chart,...
    634.091 ECH
  6. Dr. Namita Singh, Head of Training, Digital Green. This handbook gives an overview of a broad range of technologies and can be useful for professionals engaged in agriculture extension, organizations working with smallholder farmers, implementors, donors and other public sector partners. Those interested in the use ICTs for development may also...
  7. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) 154 pp. : ill. This is the second module in a series of traning materials fo rthe implementation of the International Treay on PlantGenetic Resouces for Food and Agriculture. see also https://www.fao.org/3/i2631e/i2631e.pdf [ Gift of Dr Abram Bicksler Jan 24, 2023 ] “Conservation and Sustainable...
    576.52 FAO
  8. Roland Bunch Strong gradients of decreasing soil fertility are found in many regions of the world. Millions of smallholders are now facing this serious crisis which causes them lower crop yields, and many of these families also suffer from food insecurity. With the aim of promoting recovering soil fertility...
    631.874 BUN | SB.043
  9. Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Nina Olsen Lauridsen, Eliot Gee, Giulia Rota Nodar (eds) A Toolkit to Support Incorporating Biodiversity into Policies and Programmes This is an open-access guide to mainstreaming biodiversity that draws on case studies across the four partner countries, Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey, outlining steps to provide evidence, influence policies, and...
  10. Thomas Fairhurst A question that we get asked at ECHO is “Are you an organic farm?” And the answer is “No. Because of our unique soils, climate and objectives, we do use herbicides, insecticides and mineral fertilizer as needed. At the same time, we aim to minimize our use of and reliance on expensive inputs.”...
    333.761 ASH