[PDF] Agriculture Monograph eBook

Author : Patricia C. Anderson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1938770870

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The twenty-eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, and harvesting techniques, tools and technology in the period just before and just after the appearance of agriculture. The book takes an explicitly comparative approach, with chapters on SW Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa.

Author : Harold E. Gene Garrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0891183779

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North American Agroforestry Explore the many benefits of alternative land-use systems with this incisive resource Humanity has become a victim of its own success. While we’ve managed to meet the needs—to one extent or another—of a large portion of the human population, we’ve often done so by ignoring the health of the natural environment we rely on to sustain our planet. And by deteriorating the quality of our air, water, and land, we’ve put into motion consequences we’ll be dealing with for generations. In the newly revised Third Edition of North American Agroforestry, an expert team of researchers delivers an authoritative and insightful exploration of an alternative land-use system that exploits the positive interactions between trees and crops when they are grown together and bridges the gap between production agriculture and natural resource management. This latest edition includes new material on urban food forests, as well as the air and soil quality benefits of agroforestry, agroforestry’s relevance in the Mexican context, and agroforestry training and education. The book also offers: A thorough introduction to the development of agroforestry as an integrated land use management strategy Comprehensive explorations of agroforestry nomenclature, concepts, and practices, as well as an agroecological foundation for temperate agroforestry Practical discussions of tree-crop interactions in temperate agroforestry, including in systems such as windbreak practices, silvopasture practices, and alley cropping practices In-depth examinations of vegetative environmental buffers for air and water quality benefits, agroforestry for wildlife habitat, agroforestry at the landscape level, and the impact of agroforestry on soil health Perfect for environmental scientists, natural resource professionals and ecologists, North American Agroforestry will also earn a place in the libraries of students and scholars of agricultural sciences interested in the potential benefits of agroforestry.

Author : Henry A. Fribourg
Publisher : ASA-CSSA-SSSA
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780891181729

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Author : James Stuart Schepers
Publisher : ASA-CSSA-SSSA
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780891181644

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Review of the principles and management implications related to nitrogen in the soil-plant-water system.

Author : IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Carcinogens
ISBN : 9789283201502

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This volume of the IARC Monographs provides evaluations of the carcinogenicity of some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides, including diazinon, glyphosate, malathion, parathion, and tetrachlorvinphos. Diazinon acts on a wide range of insects on crops, gardens, livestock, and pets, but most uses have been restricted in the USA, Canada, and the European Union since the 1980s. Glyphosate is the most heavily used agricultural and residential herbicide in the world, and has been detected in soil, air, surface water, and groundwater, as well as in food. Malathion is one of the oldest and most widely used organophosphate insecticides, and has a broad spectrum of applications in agriculture and public health, notably mosquito control. The insecticide parathion has been largely banned or restricted throughout the world due to toxicity to wildlife and humans. Tetrachlorvinphos is banned in the European Union, but continues to be used in the USA and elsewhere as an insecticide on animals, including in pet flea collars. The IARC Monographs Working Group reviewed epidemiological evidence, animal bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to reach conclusions as to the carcinogenic hazard to humans of these agents.