Resources Tagged: Agricultural Ecology
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Key Resource 2013-06-03 With Practical Information on Landshaping, Water Security, Perennial Crops, Soil Fertility, Nutrient-dense food, and more The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk...
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This Special Publication records in considerable detail, the ideas, concepts, and experiences of 19 outstanding scientist who have observed crop tolerances to different stresses associated with suboptimal land conditions in different parts of the world. The 15 papers included in this Special...
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1991-01-01 286 pages
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In the wake of the recent appalling famine, The Greening of Africa is an indispensable guide to understanding and action for all who care about the world's most threatened continent.
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A collection of essays examines agricultural techniques designed to meet the needs of the people without depleting the land.
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Although agricultural systems in which two or more useful plants are grown simultaneously on the same area have been receiving increasing attention in recent years, the practice has long been recognized as a way in which farmers in the tropics and subtropics with limited land resources can...
- 1972-01-01 Rice is the most widely consumed and ecologically adaptable cereal on earth, and in the first part of the book Hanks provides us with a synthesizing account of its history, the nature of its cultivation, its adaptablility, and the social and energy requirements necessary for its production. The...
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This book explains the use of an ecological way of farming, with modern practical applications, to make the fullest use of land resources and the best utilization of available capital and labour. In analyzing the vital relationship between soil, plant, animal and man, the author discusses the...
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1989-01-05 This training resource book is made for researchers wishing to learn and teach the essentials of agro-ecosystem mapping. 55 pages, illustrations, photos
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Key Resource 1999-01-19 PERMACOPIEA TWO; THE ENDEMIC, INDIGENOUS, & POLYNESIAN SPECIES of HAWAII, is the most important book for Hawaii. This would be the first place to identify the appropriate & sustaining plants for these islands. It includes information on 235 important plants from ‘A’ALI’I through YAM.