Download or read book Tomorrow s Table written by Pamela C. Ronald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must be a better way to meet the need for increased food production. Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. The reader sees the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses. They learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. This book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices. It is also for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment.
Download or read book Tomorrow s Harvest written by Hiram M. Drache and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover modern farming as experienced by the business-minded, progressive family-orientated farm couples that use advanced technology, capital, and management tools to enhance their business. It is futuristic agriculture as it has evolved because of cheap food policies of the government and relentless pressure from the consumer for lower prices.
Download or read book Eating Tomorrow written by Timothy A. Wise and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.
Download or read book Eating Tomorrow written by Timothy A. Wise and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country, agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have actually exacerbated food crises. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow. These same farmers - who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries - can show the way forward as climate rises and population increases.
Download or read book Managing Agriculture for a Better Tomorrow written by D. C. Pande and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Management in India' Is an edited volume on Indian agriculture having a collection of 27 papers contributed by the distinguished scholars and the scientists. It is a thematic study involving the diagnostic as well as the prognostic aspects of Indian agriculture with a view to project its complex nature and indentify the quarters of future change. In order to facilitate analytical reading the book divides itself into six sections. The provides statistical, analytical and scientific information in regard of agricultural practices of India. It is hoped that it will prove immensely useful for the researchers, intellectuals and policy makers and a milestone in the treatises on Indian Agriculture.
Download or read book But What about Tomorrow written by Floyd Ells and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you give a damn about your kids, you owe it to them to read this book. North America is fast approaching a major agricultural crisis because our present system of farming is unsustainable. It is unsustainable because it depends so heavily upon unlimited supplies of oil, gas-based fertilizers, and water, all of which are rapidly running out. It is unsustainable because we are destroying our soil with bad management practices. It is unsustainable because family farms cannot compete with factory farms. Whether from ignorance, lack of concern, or self-indulgent greed, in our blind pursuit of the good life for ourselves, we are squandering irreplaceable natural resources that rightfully belong to our progeny. As a consequence of our mismanagement, we are leaving behind a legacy of problems that may prove insurmountable-unless we change our ways very soon.
Download or read book Research for Tomorrow written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een indruk wordt gegeven van de richtingen, waarin het landbouwkundig onderzoek zich in de VS begeeft
Download or read book TOMORROW S Agriculture written by G. H. Peters (ed) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization of the food and agricultural economy; Improved market incentives in transition economies; Agricultural research , technology development and institutions; Making agriculture environmentally safe; Contributed papers- development and ressearch; Contributed papers- trade, european union and methodology.
Download or read book Agricultural Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicken Little Tomato Sauce and Agriculture written by Joan Dye Gussow and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seeds written by United States Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic factor in our realization of mankind?s most sought goal, agricultural abundance, good seeds can be a means of bringing about an Age of Plenty. Seeds are the germ of life, a beginning and an end, the fruit of yesterday?s harvest and the promise of tomorrow?s. The seeds we use today enable our farmers to produce a variety of healthy and hardy food and fiber crops that were virtually unknown a few years ago. Our plant breeders and geneticists have accomplished miracles in the development of more useful plants.Contents:The Importance of SeedsThe Life Processes of SeedsThe Production of SeedsThe Processing of SeedsThe Certification of SeedsThe Testing of SeedsThe Marketing of Seeds
Download or read book Global Agenda for Livestock Research written by C. Devendra and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Farming and the Worlds to Come written by Jean-Michel Sourisseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the “International Year of Family Farming,” the United Nations has placed this form of production at the center of debates on agricultural development. These debates are often reduced to two opposing positions. The first advocates the development of industrial or company agriculture, supposedly efficient because it follows industrial processes for market-oriented mass production. The second promotes the preservation of family farming with its close links between family and farm. The authors of this book wish to enrich the debates by helping overcome stereotypes – which often manifest through the use of terms such as “small-scale farming, subsistence farming, peasant, etc.” Research work has emphatically demonstrated the great adaptability of family farming systems and their ability to meet the major challenges of tomorrow but it has also not overlooked their limitations. The authors explore the choices facing society and possible development trajectories at national and international levels, and the contribution that agriculture will have to make. They call for a recommitment of public policies in favor of family farming in developing countries and stress the importance of planning actions targeted at and tailored to the family character of agricultural models. But, above all, they highlight the need to overcome strictly sectoral rationales, by placing family farming at the core of a broader economic and social project. This book is the result of a collaborative effort led by CIRAD and encapsulates three decades of research on family farming. It will interest researchers, teachers and students, and all those involved in national and international efforts for the development of countries in the South.
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergence of Cyber Physical System and IoT in Smart Automation and Robotics written by Krishna Kant Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate computing and communication capabilities by monitoring and controlling the physical systems via embedded hardware and computers. This book brings together new and futuristic findings on IoT, Cyber Physical Systems and Robotics leading towards Automation and solving issues of various critical applications in Real-time. The book initially overviews the concepts of IoT, IIoT and Cyber Physical Systems followed by various critical applications and discusses the latest designs and developments that provide common solutions for the convergence of technologies. In addition, the book specifies methodologies, algorithms and other relevant architectures in various fields that include Automation, Robotics, Smart Agriculture and Industry 4.0. The book is intended for practitioners, enterprise representatives, scientists, students and Ph.D Scholars in hopes of steering research further towards cyber physical systems design and development and implementation across various domains. Additionally, this book can be used as a secondary reference, or rather one-stop guide, by professionals for real-life implementation of cyber physical systems. The book highlights: • A Critical Coverage of various domains: IoT, Cyber Physical Systems, Industry 4.0, Smart Automation and related critical applications. • Advanced elaborations for target audiences to understand the conceptual methodology and future directions of cyber physical systems and IoT. • An approach towards Research Orientations to enable researchers to point out areas and scope for implementation of Cyber Physical Systems in several domains for better productivity.
Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings Received written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomorrow s Agriculture written by Stephanie Mohammed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides discussion on the importance of hydroponics with particular focus on the nutrient film technique for the production of premium, fresh vegetables in a highly economically feasible method. It highlights this culture of growing as one of the most efficient agricultural practices for a sustainable market and also addresses the numerous challenges faced in the production of crops grown in soil. Nutrient Film Technique Hydroponics describes detailed instructions on the set up of an efficient system, including applications for lower budgets, new business ventures, and gives a detailed outline for the construction of an ideal hydroponic system. It also reveals the secrets to turning a hydroponic system into a profitable business by providing the necessary templates for tracking a successful endeavor. This book also contains references for further reading and a comprehensive index.
