Top 10 Best "Agriculture" Books

Making Your Small Farm Profitable

Ron Macher
Howard W. Kerr

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Civic Agriculture

Thomas A. Lyson

Agriculture

Civic Agriculture

While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community's social and economic development. Civic agriculture embraces innovative ways to produce, process, and distribute food, and it represents a sustainable alternative to the socially, economically, and environmentally destructive practices associated with conventional large-scale agriculture. Farmers' markets, community gardens, and community-supported agriculture are all forms of civic agriculture. Lyson describes how, in the course of a hundred years, a small-scale, diversified system of farming became an industrialized system of production and also how this industrialized system has gone global. He argues that farming in the United States was modernized by emp...

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Agriculture Course

Rudolf Steiner

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Feeding the World

Giovanni Federico

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Science in Agriculture

Arden B. Andersen

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A Revolution Down on the Farm

Paul K. Conkin

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A Revolution Down on the Farm

Paul K. Conkin

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Crisis and Opportunity

John E. Ikerd

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Against the Grain

Richard Manning

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Agriculture

Rudolf Steiner
Richard Smith Thornton

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A History of World Agriculture

Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted.

Mazoyer and Roudart's A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today ...

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A History of World Agriculture

Marcel Mazoyer
Laurence Roudart

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Financial Management in Agriculture (6th Edition)

Peter Barry
Paul N. Ellinger
John A. Hopkin
C. B. Baker

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