Over the past two decades, how has urban agriculture changed in sub-Saharan Africa? Is city farming now better integrated into environmental management and city governance? And, looking ahead, how might urban agriculture address the needs of the low-income households and modernizing cities of Africa? In this book, leading specialists in the fields of urban agriculture and urban environment present a unique collection of case studies that examines the growing role of local food production in urb...
With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices--workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system,...
La Mosca Casera: Cómo Controlarla (Classic Reprint)
by Entomology Research Division
United Kingdom Pig Industry (House of Commons Papers, No. 87-II (Session 1998-99))
Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main causes of the so-called “global land rush”. In a world with a growing population that needs to be fed, the financial returns from agriculture are sold as safe bets. The debate that this has prompted has been frequently alarmist, with financiers blamed for rising land prices, corporate enclosures, the dispossessio...
Scottish Milk (Command Paper, #5002)
The Principles of Practical Agriculture (Classic Reprint)
by Albert Daniel Thaer
Notizblatt Des Vereins Für Erdkunde Und Der Grossh. Geologischen Landesanstalt Zu Darmstadt, 1893, Vol. 14
by R Lepsius
Sulphuric Acid Treatment to Increase Germination of Black Locust Seed (Classic Reprint)
by Harold Glenn Meginnis
Ontario Agricultural Commission, Vol. 2: Appendix B, Containing Returns Relating to the Soil, Climate, Topographical Features, Cultivable Area and Products Of, and the Progress and Condition of Husbandry in the Province of Ontario (Classic Reprint)
by Ontario Agricultural Commission
Soils of the Eastern United States and Their Setts XXII
by Jay a Bonsteel
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture
by Connecticut State Board of Agriculture
Geographical Phases of Farm Prices: Corn (Classic Reprint)
by L B Zapoleon
Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society, in Massachusetts, for the Year 1876
by Cyrus M Tracy
U. S. Foreign Agricultural Trade by Countries, Calendar Year 1963
by United States Economic Research Service
Le Tabac Sa Culture Et Sa Preparation, Production Et Consommation Dans Les Divers Pays (Classic Reprint)
by L Laurent
