Sustainable agriculture books

2631 books were found.

Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival

Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival...

Author: David Hanson ,  Edwin Marty
ISBN: 9786613520487
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

Documents twelve successful urban farm programs, from an alternative school for girls in Detroit, to a backyard...  Read More >>

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture

Author: Eva Wollenberg ,  Marja-Liisa Tapio-Bistrom
ISBN: 9781136503450
Format: Electronic book text
$72.42

This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the...  Read More >>

Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food System

Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food...

Author: Eric Holt-Gimenez ,  Samir Amin
ISBN: 9780935028386
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the...  Read More >>

Reclaiming Our Food

Reclaiming Our Food

Author: Tanya Denckla Cobb ,  Tonya Denckla Cobb
ISBN: 9781603427999
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Offers an analysis of how groups throughout the United States are creating sustainable ways to provide local food....  Read More >>

Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson...

Author: Wes Jackson ,  Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781582437002
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A reader on sustainability and food production that is written from the point of view of a man who has practiced...  Read More >>

Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture

Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin'...

Author: Mark Winne
ISBN: 9780807047378
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"A look at the growing power of local efforts across America to say no to the industrial food system and yes to...  Read More >>

Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach...

Author: Wes Jackson
ISBN: 9781582437804
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping...  Read More >>

Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change

Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change

Author: Eric Lichtfouse
ISBN: 9789400719040
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for...  Read More >>

Classic Queen Rearing Compendium

Classic Queen Rearing Compendium

Author: Michael D Bush, Pas ,  Miller Smith Doolittle
ISBN: 9781614760597
Format: Hardback
$126.79

A compendium of classic queen rearing books by G.M. Doolittle, C.C. Miller, Henry Alley, Jay Smith, Isaac Hopkins...  Read More >>

The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century...

Author: Dickson Despommier
ISBN: 9780312610692
Format: Paperback
$42.24

When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't...  Read More >>

Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture

Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture

Author: Mark Gorgolewski ,  June Komisar
ISBN: 9781580933117
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Forty innovative projects that explore creative approaches to making space for urban food production by designers...  Read More >>

Practical Queen Rearing

Practical Queen Rearing

Author: Frank Chapman Pellett
ISBN: 9781614760573
Format: Paperback
$41.40

This book is a good overview of most of the popular queen rearing methods. This edition has all the original plates...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption...

Author: Jayson L. Lusk (, Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair, Oklahoma State University) ,  Juttta Roosen (, Professor and Chair for Marketing and Consumer Research, Technische Universität München)
ISBN: 9780199569441
Format: Hardback
$288.95

This handbook brings together contributions from the top researchers in the economics of food consumption and policy....  Read More >>

Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an Innovative Intervention in Nepal

Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance...

Author: Elinor Ostrom ,  Wai Fung Lam
ISBN: 9781849801447
Format: Hardback
$220.50

Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained...  Read More >>

Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture on California's Central Coast

Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History of Organic Farming...

Author: Sarah J Rabkin ,  Irene H Reti
ISBN: 9780972334365
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A synergistic web of visionary farmers, activists, educators, and researchers is transforming the food system in...  Read More >>

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

Author: Michael Carolan (Colorado State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781849713214
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food...  Read More >>

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

Author: Michael Carolan (Colorado State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781849713207
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food...  Read More >>

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

Water and Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Iván Francisco García-Tejero ,  Víctor Hugo Durán-Zuazo
ISBN: 9789400720909
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed...  Read More >>

Save and Grow: A Policymaker's Guide to Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Crop Production

Save and Grow: A Policymaker's Guide to Sustainable...

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,  Toby Hodgkin
ISBN: 9789251068717
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This book presents a new paradigm: sustainable crop production intensification (SCPI), which produces more from...  Read More >>

Farming that Brings Glory to God and Hope to the Hungry

Farming that Brings Glory to God and Hope to the Hungry...

Author: Craig Sorley
ISBN: 9780983865308
Format: Paperback
$31.55

With chronic hunger affecting millions, the world today needs to completely rethink its relationship to both agriculture...  Read More >>

Cornucopia: Understanding Health through Understanding Agriculture

Cornucopia: Understanding Health through Understanding...

Author: D. Patrick Johnson
ISBN: 9780761855965
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Cornucopia explores the nutritional and economic implications of U.S. farm policy. Johnson questions whether current...  Read More >>

Pathways to Urban Sustainability: The Atlanta Metropolitan Region: Summary of a Workshop

Pathways to Urban Sustainability: The Atlanta Metropolitan...

Author: National Research Council ,  Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 9780309211987
Format: Paperback
$55.44

"""Sustainability science and technology""--Cover."  Read More >>

Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies

Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies

Author: Noureddine Benkeblia
ISBN: 9781439825044
Format: Hardback
$368.00

"Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first...  Read More >>

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