Download or read book Variety Study of the Irish Potato written by William Hale Wicks and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Potato written by John Reader and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From domestication in Peru 8,000 years ago to its status today as the world's fourth largest food crop, the potato has played a starring--or at least supporting--role in many chapters of human history. In this witty and engaging book, Reader opens our eyes to the power of the potato. Whether embraced as the solution to hunger or wielded as a weapon of exploitation, blamed for famine and death or recognized for spurring progress, the potato has often changed the course of human events. Reader focuses on sixteenth-century South America, where the indigenous potato enabled Spanish conquerors to feed thousands of conscripted native people; eighteenth-century Europe, where the nutrition-packed potato brought about a population explosion; and today's global world, where the potato is an essential food source but also the world's most chemically-dependent crop. Where potatoes have been adopted as a staple food, social change has always followed. It may be "just" a humble vegetable, John Reader shows, yet the history of the potato has been anything but dull.

Download or read book Classified List of Projects Carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seed Studies with Irish Potatoes written by Joseph Tooker Rosa and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Potato written by John Reader and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text.

Download or read book A Classified List of Projects Carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations written by United States. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Work and Expenditures of the Agricultural Experiment Stations written by United States. Agricultural Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Film Strips of the U S Department of Agriculture written by Fred Campbell Meier and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, the thirty-first annual Directory of Officials and Organizations Concerned with the Protection of Birds and Game, follows the same general form as previous editions.

Download or read book Potato Varieties written by Redcliffe N. Salaman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, this book describes the varieties of potato prevalent in the UK in the early twentieth century. Salaman also examines the environmental and genetic forces 'which control the production of these varieties, their behaviour and their ultimate destiny'. Several plates illustrating points of variety, such as leaves and flowers, are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the potato in the UK.

Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by United States. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System written by Mohamed Behnassi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), France. Coverage focuses on the agricultural sector and helps improve understanding of the relationships between agriculture and the environment and between human communities and nature, so as to sustainably manage agricultural development. The contributors analyze the interdependence between sustainable agricultural development and environmental, economic and social dynamics; assess the impacts of soil degradation on agricultural productivity; present ways to enhance livestock production and recommend mechanisms for managing links between agro-biodiversity, climate change and livelihoods. Part I examines sustainable agriculture development and environmental, economic and social dynamics, addressing topics such as global climate change, agriculture and challenges including socio-economic factors, adaptation, poverty reduction and water management. Part II covers the impacts of soil degradation on agricultural productivity and discusses the use of expert systems to assess and manage degraded lands, agricultural productivity, land suitability and rehabilitation. Part III focuses on livestock production enhancements, such as feed resources and supplemental feeds for animals and capacity building for women in dairy management. Part IV shares the outcomes of research in agro-biodiversity, climate change and livelihoods, addressing topics such as co-management of forests, carbon consumption models, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration and scarce mangrove forests. Current environmental and agro-ecological research focuses on understanding the cause-consequence relationships between specific agricultural practices and land use and the responses at different levels of ecosystems. This book is intended to contribute to this discussion.

Download or read book Technical Note written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Agriculture written by Kary Cadmus Davis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Promoting Sustainable Innovations in Plant Varieties written by Mrinalini Kochupillai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the term ‘Sustainable Innovations’ and defines it on the basis of plant variety innovations that, by their very nature, (i) permit the in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity and genetic variability in diverse geographic and climatic conditions, (ii) do not exclude any potential innovators from the process of innovation, and thereby (iii) ensure that both formal and informal innovations can continue to take place in the generations to come (in both the developed and developing world). The book studies the Indian Plant Variety Protection Act, the UPOV Acts and associated agricultural policies from a legal, philosophical, historical and economic perspective with the aim of determining the means of promoting sustainable innovations in plant varieties and identifying laws, policies and practices that are currently acting as impediments to promoting the same.

Download or read book China Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Who's who" section.

Download or read book Bulletins of the Experiment Stations written by Elise Lucy Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin lists approximately 12,500 of the 17,500 or more publications of the State experiment stations (including those of Alaska and the insular possessions) from 1875 to 1920, inclusive.