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1. Alternative Agriculture
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2. Agroecology in Action: Extending
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3. Alternative Agriculture: A History:
 
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4. Agroecology: The Scientific Basis
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5. Alternative Agriculture: A History:
 
6. Alternative Methods of Agriculture:
 
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7. Alt Energy in Agriculture Vol
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8. Institutional Alternatives and
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9. Alternative Treatments for Ruminant
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10. Alternative Protein Sources in
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11. Biorenewable Resources: Engineering
 
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12. Alternative Perspectives on Livelihoods,
 
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13. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture:
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14. Pesticides: Problems, Improvements,
 
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15. Global Report on Validated Alternatives
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16. Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative
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17. Changing the Way America Farms:
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18. Solar Energy in Agriculture and
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19. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
 
20. Solar Energy in Agriculture

1. Alternative Agriculture
by Committee on the Role of Alternative Farming Methods in Modern Production Agriculture, National Research Council
Paperback: 464 Pages (1989-01-01)
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Asin: 0309039851
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More and more farmers are adopting a diverse range of alternative practices designed to reduce dependence on synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and antibiotics; cut costs; increase profits; and reduce the adverse environmental consequences of agricultural production. "Alternative Agriculture" describes the increased use of these new practices and other changes in agriculture since World War II, and examines the role of federal policy in encouraging this evolution, as well as factors that are causing farmers to look for profitable, environmentally safe alternatives. Eleven case studies explore how alternative farming methods have been adopted - and with what economic results - on farms of various sizes from California to Pennsylvania. ... Read more


2. Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by Keith Douglass Warner
Paperback: 291 Pages (2007-01-01)
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American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-source water pollution—runoffs of pesticides, nutrients, and sediments into streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. In Agroecology in Action, Keith Douglass Warner describes agroecology, an emerging scientific response to agriculture's environmental crises, and offers detailed case studies of ways in which growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies have developed innovative, ecologically based techniques to reduce reliance on agrochemicals.

Agroecology in Action shows that agroecology can be put into action effectively only when networks of farmers, scientists, and other stakeholders learn together. Farmers and scientists and their organizations must work collaboratively to share knowledge—whether it is derived from farm, laboratory, or marketplace. This sort of partnership, writes Warner, has emerged as the primary strategy for finding alternatives to conventional agrochemical use. Warner describes successful agroecological initiatives in California, Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin. California's vast and diverse specialty-crop agriculture has already produced 32 agricultural partnerships, and Warner pays particular attention to agroecological efforts in that state, including those under way in the pear, winegrape, and almond farming systems.

The book shows how popular concern about the health and environmental impacts of pesticides has helped shape agricultural environmental policy, and how policy has in turn stimulated creative solutions from scientists, extension agents, and growers. ... Read more


3. Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day
by Joan Thirsk
Hardcover: 384 Pages (1997-12-04)
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Asin: 0198206623
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People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars relevant to today's local food movement.
fantastic overview of food and agriculture issues in England and technologies that were used over the years.
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4. Agroecology: The Scientific Basis Of Alternative Agriculture (Westview Special Studies in Agriculture Science and Policy)
by Miguel A Altieri
 Paperback: 227 Pages (1987-09-15)
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Asin: 0813372844
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5. Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day
by Joan Thirsk
Paperback: 384 Pages (2000-04-20)
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Asin: 0198208138
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People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Historical Perspective Relevant to the Local Food Movement
Though written as an academic publication, this book moves quickly to document changes in agricultural practice caused by fluctuations in population and food demands.Thirsk's basic premise is that at several points in British history (incuding after the black death, and during the agricultural depression of the late 19th century) overproduction of commodity crops (such as corn and grain) has been followed by an "alternative agriculture" that involves diversification of crops to include industrial crops and expanded production of fruits and vegetables.When farms switched from grain to vegetables they got smaller, more productive, and more labor-intensive, and introduced new and healthful foods to local populations. New foods were often adopted by the elite before becoming available to the lower and middle classes.
Reading this book in 2008, eight years after it was originally published, it is all the more relevant.The state of agriculture is changing quickly: a glut of low-priced commodity crops could have inspired more diverse farming, but a movement to production of fuel crops then increased commodity crop prices.At the same time, however; the locavore movement is demanding a transition to the type of alternative agriculture that Thirsk documents.Although Thirsk focuses her research solely on British agricultural history, her book provides terrific perspective on all of these issues. ... Read more


6. Alternative Methods of Agriculture: Description, Evaluation and Recommendations for Research (Developments in agricultural and managed-forest ecology)
 Hardcover: 206 Pages (1980-05)

Isbn: 0444418938
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7. Alt Energy in Agriculture Vol (Alternative Energy in Agriculture) (Vol 2)
 Hardcover: 192 Pages (1986-08-31)
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Asin: 0849363489
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8. Institutional Alternatives and Governance of Agriculture
Hardcover: 328 Pages (2007-09-01)
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As globalization and declining state support pose new challenges to Indian agriculture, this study examines the ways in which the Indian farm sector can integrate small farm households into the larger Indian and global markets. Looking at past and present agricultural policies, major obstacles are identified and new strategies are explored for meeting the challenges of global competition through vertical coordination and contract farming. This examination argues that success would not only benefit the individual farming households in India, but would help alleviate poverty and deprivation throughout rural India.
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9. Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals
by Paul Dettloff
Paperback: Pages (2004-10-31)
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Asin: 0911311777
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Drawing on decades of veterinary practice, Dr. Paul Dettloff presents a natural, sustainable approach to ruminant health. Copiously illustrated chapters "break down" the animal into its interrelated biological systems: digestive, reproductive, respiratory, circulatory, musculoskeletal and more. Also includes a chapter on nosodes, with vaccination programs for dairy cattle, sheep and goats. An information-packed manual from a renowned vet and educator, suitable for anyone interested in helping ruminants achieve optimal health naturally. ... Read more


10. Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets
Hardcover: 626 Pages (2008-02-28)
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A unique resource that describes the ingredients included in an aquaculture diet, species profiles, processing methods, impacts to environment and industry, and more!

Aquaculture is and will remain a major food producing sector in the future. To become more efficient and successful in the aquaculture industry, operations need to provide good nutrition. Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets is a unique source describing the ingredients included in fish and crustacean diets, their nutrient compositions, species profiles, suitability for species, processing methods, and impacts of alternative ingredients on the environment and to the aquaculture industry. World-renowned nutritionists and feed technologists explore practical ways for the aquaculture industry to expand and remain competitive, and discuss ways to develop less expensive alternative sources or protein.

Diet costs take up a huge chunk of operating expenditures, with fish meal being one of the most expensive ingredients in the aquaculture diet. Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets provides detailed knowledge on the use of alternative plant and animal protein sources, offering opportunities to either partially or completely replace fish meal. This comprehensive, up-to-date text discusses the most widely used ingredients as well as various previously under-utilized ingredients which could be of significant potential in the future. The book is extensively referenced and includes numerous helpful tables to clearly present data.

Topics discussed in Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets (for finfish and crustacean species) include:

farmed fish diet requirements
reduction of waste through diet formulation
poultry by-product meal
meat packing by-products
soybean protein foodstuffs
cottonseed meal
lupins
unconventional plant protein supplements
and much, much more!

Alternative Protein Sources in Aquaculture Diets is an essential resource for aquaculturists, nutritionists, feed formulators, feed mill operators, extension specialists, fish farmers and producers, ingredient suppliers, and policymakers.

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11. Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Productsfrom Agriculture
by Robert C. Brown
Hardcover: 286 Pages (2003-04-11)
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Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering systems that convert agricultural crops and residues into bioenergy and biobased products.


Leading the way as the first textbook for coursework on biobased products, Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture covers not only pertinent technologies but offers a primer on necessary foundation subjects the student or other reader may lack: organic chemistry, thermodynamics, plant science, crop production, environmental science, and process economics. Of special value to those working or planning to work in the field are compilations of bioresource properties, such as


  • production yields,
  • bulk densities and moisture content,
  • summative analysis of plant materials, and
  • chemical conversion yields.


By defining this multi-disciplinary field—at the interface between agricultural sciences and process engineering—Robert C. Brown has produced an introductory textbook that also serves as a handbook for agronomists, engineers, chemists, and environmentalists. ... Read more


12. Alternative Perspectives on Livelihoods, Agriculture and Air Pollution: Agriculture in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in a Developing Country (Bruton Center for Development Studies)
by Neela Mukherjee
 Hardcover: 205 Pages (2001-06)
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This text is based on participatory field research in selected urban and peri-urban villages in Varanasi and Faridabad districts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, respectively. The topic of air pollution is approached in a holistic manner in terms of local lives and livelihoods. ... Read more


13. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives
by Miguel A. Altieri
 Paperback: 110 Pages (2004-10-01)
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Those are not your grandfather's potato chips.

As debate rages over the costs and benefits of genetically engineered crops, noted agroecologist Miguel Altieri lucidly examines some of the issue's most basic and pressing questions:

* Are transgenic crops similar to conventionally bred crops?

* Are transgenic crops safe to eat?

* Does biotechnology increase yields?

* Does it reduce pesticide use?

* What are the costs to American farmers?

* Will biotechnology benefit poor farmers?

* Can biotechnology coexist with other forms of agriculture?

* What are the known and potential environmental and biological risks?

* What alternatives do we have to genetically modified crops? ... Read more


14. Pesticides: Problems, Improvements, Alternatives
Hardcover: 272 Pages (2003-03-10)
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Despite a history of several decades of pesticide regulation, continuous innovation, and considerable practical experience with using pesticides in agriculture, the environmental impact of pesticide use continues to be of serious concern. ... Read more


15. Global Report on Validated Alternatives to the Use of Methyl Bromide for Soil Fumigation (Fao Plant Production and Protection Papers)
 Paperback: 106 Pages (2001-01)
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16. Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds
Hardcover: 551 Pages (2010-07-19)
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Experts are predicting that demand for marine fish oil will soon outstrip supply, creating extreme urgency within the global aquafeed industry to find viable alternatives. Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds is the first comprehensive review of this multifaceted, complex issue. It also addresses the crucial questions about whether or not the industry will be able to meet increasing worldwide demand for fisheries products.

The First & Only Book Specifically Addressing this Issue

With contributions from more than 30 international experts, the book provides a global perspective on the production, rationale, and use of fish oils, vegetable oils, and animal fats in relation to the aquaculture and aquafeed industries. After a detailed discussion on alternative lipid sources, the book discusses groundbreaking research on the use of these lipid sources as fish oil substitutes, as well as their potential advantages and challenges for use in aquafeeds.

Written by Leading Scientists & Industry Authorities

Rounding out its solid coverage, the book then explores the important physiological effects of various lipid sources and their components on growth, lipid metabolism, health, and postharvest qualities of the farmed fish. Both timely and pertinent, Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds is the most authoritative and comprehensive review on the substitution of fish oil in aquaculture feeds addressing the issues, science, and future directions of using sustainable alternatives.

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17. Changing the Way America Farms: Knowledge and Community in the Sustainable Agriculture Movement (Our Sustainable Future)
by Neva Hassanein
Paperback: 218 Pages (1999-11-01)
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Changing the Way America Farms traces the manner in which alternative farmers have developed and exchanged their own personal, local knowledge as a basis for moving toward an agricultural system that is ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially just. Neva Hassanein studies the patterns of local and regional networks in Wisconsin that sprang up to disseminate new and viable agricultural methods. She argues that these networks have in many ways become the foundation of the sustainable agriculture movement.
 
Hassanein focuses on two organizations: the Ocooch Grazers Network, a group of dairy farmers who practice intensive rotational grazing, and the Wisconsin Women’s Sustainable Farming Network. The different lived experiences of particular members in each group shaped the ways local knowledge was generated and exchanged.
 
Hassanein considers the broader implications of this kind of local-level, collective activity centered around the creation and exchange of agricultural knowledge. In rejecting the all-knowing expertise characteristic of scientific reports and extension services, network members instead created heterogeneous systems based on the exchange of information among a community of farming practitioners. These informal networks do not completely reject agricultural science, but they do suggest ways of democratizing knowledge production for sustainable agriculture.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Really interesting book and It was in really good conditions
Great book and great service from amazon the book was in good conditions and it also arrived just in time, the author makes a really good description about how to work with observational studies, and using two network groups as an example she explains very carefully and detailed how they got involved with alternative farming methods and the development of new sustainable practices. ... Read more


18. Solar Energy in Agriculture and Industry: Potential of Solar Heat in European Agriculture, an Assessment (Solar Energy R&D in the Ec Series H:) (v. 1)
Hardcover: 220 Pages (1986-06-30)
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19. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants XII (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry)
Hardcover: 350 Pages (2002-06-10)
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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants XII comprises 18 chapters. It deals with the distribution, importance, conventional propagation, micropropagation, tissue culture studies, and the in vitro production of important medicinal and pharmaceutical compounds in the following plants: Artemisia annua, Coriandrum sativum, Crataegus, Dionaea muscipula, Hyoscyamus reticulatus, Hypericum canariense, Leguminosae, Malva, Ocimum, Pergularia tomentosa, Phellodendron amurense, Sempervivum, Solanum aculeatissimum, S. chrysotrichum, S. kasianum, Stephania, Trigonella, and Vaccinium. It is tailored to the needs of advanced students, teachers, and research scientists in the fields of pharmacy, plant tissue culture, phytochemistry, biomedical engineering, and plant biotechnology in general. ... Read more


20. Solar Energy in Agriculture
by B. F. Parker
 Hardcover: 448 Pages (1990-11-01)
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Isbn: 0444886222
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This is the 4th volume in an international energy reference book series aimed at bringing together, in a concise form, the basic principles and the most relevant data concerning both the efficient use of energy in agriculture and the food industry and alternative energy sources for agriculture.

The theme of this volume is solar energy applications in agriculture.Since the 1960's the major industrial nations have faced an energy crisis; there is a realisation that fossil fuels exist in finite quantitities.In the 1970's and 80's, deposits of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased, arguably resulting in an increase in global warming.Utilisation of solar energy could contribute to the improvement of man's standard of living while helping to decrease the potential for disasterous earth warming.The application of solar energy in agriculture is, in the main, environmentally benign.

The purpose of this volume is to assist the solar e ... Read more


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