This full-color text presents an integrated science-based approach to teaching Agriscience, encouraging students to think critically and probe the linkages between subjects. Developed in conjunction with both science & agriculture teachers insuring a balanced approach to biology, chemistry, and physics, in dealing with such primary topics as plant and animal science, agricultural entomology, food and fiber technology, genetic engineering, forestry, the environment, and more! (Science of Agricult...
Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies
by Christopher C Boyle
By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, and agricultural and livestoc...
Student Workbook for Elliot's Agribusiness: Decisions and Dollars, 2nd
by Jack Elliot
Get the extra practice you need to succeed in your agribusiness course with this hands-on Student Workbook. Designed to help you master the problem-solving skills and concepts presented in AGRIBUSINESS: DECISIONS AND DOLLARS, 2nd Edition, this practical, easy-to-use workbook reinforces key concepts and promotes skill building.
While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way elsewhere, be it by way of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train,...
Contested Tastes (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
by Michaela DeSoucey
Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy--the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube--has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, politicians, chefs, and foodies. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes us to farms, restaurants, protests, and political hearings in both the United States and France to reveal why people care so passionat...
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale's Organic Manifesto irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish. She further explains that modern organic farm...
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament....
Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food (Critical Food Studies)
by Bethaney Turner
Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable lifestyles. This book analyses ethnographic data gathered from participants in Alternative Food Networks from farmers’ markets to community gardens, agricultural shows and food redistribution services. D...
Food and Culture
by Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn P Sucher, and Marcia Nelms
Ina Garten
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Food as a Human Right: Combatting Global Hunger and Forging a Path to Food Sovereignty (Praeger Security International)
by William D. Schanbacher