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The Uncomfortable Truth About South Africa's Agriculture (Paperback): Wandile Sihlobo, Johann Kirsten The Uncomfortable Truth About South Africa's Agriculture (Paperback)
Wandile Sihlobo, Johann Kirsten
R290 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R31 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten chose to write The Uncomfortable Truth about South Africa’s Agriculture in a candid, direct and unfiltered tone, not out of disregard, but with the hope of stirring South African agricultural stakeholders from inertia that may have taken hold over time.

One clear example of inertia is the endless policy discussions. When the government proposes policy positions – either good or bad – time is spent discussing these policies instead of anything substantive being done. The divisions amongst South African farmer organisations is the core issue behind the interminable conversations and this results in a ‘performance of productivity’ among participants in these meetings, creating an impression of progress simply because discussions are taking place.

While politicians and farmer representatives debate, farmers suffer, the unemployed languish, and small towns crumble. Poor roads and rising costs choke market access, while collapsing municipalities pile pressure on agribusinesses.

Things don’t have to be this way, and the South African agricultural sector still has great potential to grow, increase employment, and revitalise the rural economy. This book will empower the reader with a clearer understanding of the agricultural constraints and how to overcome them and mobilise the much-needed sectorial focus to implementation.

While the contents may be uncomfortable for some, this book is intended to ignite an urgent call for decisive policy and programme implementation and to demand stronger collaboration among social partners.

Jane's Delicious Urban Gardening - Sustainable City Living (Paperback): Jane Griffiths Jane's Delicious Urban Gardening - Sustainable City Living (Paperback)
Jane Griffiths 1
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Do you love living in the city but dream about growing your own wholesome fruit and vegetables? South Africa’s organic gardening guru, Jane Griffiths, shows you just how easy it is to achieve a flourishing food garden, no matter how small your space.

Jane’s Delicious Urban Gardening is packed with inspirational ideas and practical information on all aspects of urban eco living.

In her trademark sensible and easy-to-follow style, Jane provides a wealth of tips and suggestions for:

  • growing organic vegetables just about anywhere – from containers to edible walls, from raised beds to rooftops, from community gardens to neglected pavements
  • planting and maintaining a space-efficient urban orchard
  • converting an existing lawn or tennis court into an instant edible oasis
  • keeping urban bees, hens and aquaponic tanks
  • harvesting rainwater and recycling grey water
  • introducing solar power into your home
  • converting a chlorinated swimming pool into a wetland-filtered haven.

Illustrated with hundreds of beautiful colour photographs, Jane’s Delicious Urban Gardening is essential reading for anyone wanting to live a more sustainable, productive and healthy lifestyle in the city.

Environmental education - South African perspectives (Paperback): C.P. Loubser Environmental education - South African perspectives (Paperback)
C.P. Loubser
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 7 - 10 working days

This title is intended as a manual for environmental education practitioners. It provides theoretical background with the view of improving environmental education practitioners' practice. Environmental education addresses topics such as: The origin of the term/concept environmental education in southern Africa; a philosophical perspective of environmental education; teaching for the environment; environmental issues; education for sustainability; environmental education in the informal sector; environmental education in business and industry; research in environmental education.

Sixty Harvests Left - How To Reach A Nature-Friendly Future (Paperback): Philip Lymbery Sixty Harvests Left - How To Reach A Nature-Friendly Future (Paperback)
Philip Lymbery
R375 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R40 (11%) In Stock

Taking its title from a chilling warning made by the United Nations that the world's soils could be lost within a lifetime, Sixty Harvests Left uncovers how the food industry is threatening the planet. Put simply, without soils there will be no food: game over. And time is running out.

From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes behind the scenes of industrial farming and confronts 'Big Agriculture', where mega-farms, chemicals and animal cages are sweeping the countryside and jeopardising the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat and the nature that we treasure.

In his investigations, however, he also finds hope in the pioneers who are battling to bring landscapes back to life, who are rethinking farming methods, rediscovering traditional techniques and developing technologies to feed an ever-expanding global population.

Impassioned, balanced and persuasive, Sixty Harvests Left not only demonstrates why future harvests matter more than ever, but reveals how we can restore our planet for a nature-friendly future.

Fungal Cell Factories for Sustainable Nanomaterials Productions and Agricultural Applications (Paperback): Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam Fungal Cell Factories for Sustainable Nanomaterials Productions and Agricultural Applications (Paperback)
Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam
R6,133 Discovery Miles 61 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fungal Cell Factories for Sustainable Nanomaterials Productions and Agricultural Applications explores the mycogenic synthesis of many metal nanoparticles, including processing processes, environmental protection, and future perspectives. Nanomaterials, including silver, gold, palladium, copper, zinc, selenium, titanium dioxide, metal sulphide, cellulose, have been formed by major fungal genes, such as mushrooms, Fusarium, Trichoderma, endophytic fungi, and yeast, in addition to lichens. Understanding the exact process involved in the synthesis of nanoparticles and the effects of various factors on the reduction of metal ions can help to improve low-cost strategies for the synthesis and extraction of nanoparticles. Other sections focus on a new framework for the production of nano-antimicrobial, the use of myconanoparticles against plant diseases, post-harvest antibiotics, mycotoxin control and plant pests in addition to certain animal pathogens. Myconanomaterials are well developed with great potential and promise for advanced diagnostics, biosensors, precision farming and targeted smart delivery systems.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 152 (Hardcover): Donald L. Sparks Advances in Agronomy, Volume 152 (Hardcover)
Donald L. Sparks
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. Each volume contains an eclectic group of reviews by leading scientists throughout the world. As always, the subjects covered are rich, varied, and exemplary of the abundant subject matter addressed by this long-running serial.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 151 (Hardcover): Donald L. Sparks Advances in Agronomy, Volume 151 (Hardcover)
Donald L. Sparks
R4,470 Discovery Miles 44 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 151, continues to be recognized as a leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. Each volume contains an eclectic group of reviews by leading scientists throughout the world. As always, the subjects covered are rich, varied, and exemplary of the abundant subject matter addressed by this long-running serial.

Water Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture in Semiarid Environment - Tools, Strategies, and Challenges for Woody Crops... Water Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture in Semiarid Environment - Tools, Strategies, and Challenges for Woody Crops (Paperback)
Ivan Francisco Garcia-Tejero, Victor Hugo Duran-Zuazo
R4,671 R4,337 Discovery Miles 43 370 Save R334 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Water Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture in Semiarid Environment: Tools, Strategies and Challenges for Woody Crops explores the complex relationship between water scarcity and climate change, agricultural water-use efficiency, crop-water stress management and modeling water scarcity in woody crops. Understanding these cause- and effect relationships and identifying the most appropriate responses are critical for sustainable crop production. The book focuses on Mediterranean environments to explain how to determine the most appropriate strategy and implement an effective plan; however, core concepts are translational to other regions. Informative for those working in agricultural water management, irrigation and drainage, crop physiology and sustainable agriculture.

Sintering - Densification, Grain Growth and Microstructure (Hardcover, New): Suk-Joong L. Kang Sintering - Densification, Grain Growth and Microstructure (Hardcover, New)
Suk-Joong L. Kang
R2,268 Discovery Miles 22 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sintering is the process of forming materials and components from a powder under the action of thermal energy. It is a key materials science subject: most ceramic materials and many specialist metal powder products for use in key industries such as electronics, automotive and aerospace are formed this way. Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this book offers an unrivalled introduction to sintering and sintering processes for students of materials science and engineering, and practicing engineers in industry.
The book is unique in providing a complete grounding in the principles of sintering and equal coverage of the three key sintering processes: densification, grain growth and microstructure. Students and professional engineers alike will be attracted by the emphasis on developing a detailed understanding of the theory and practical processes of sintering, the balanced coverage of ceramic and metal sintering, and the accompanying examination questions with selected solutions.
-Delivering unrivalled depth of coverage on the basis of sintering, science, including thermodynamics and polycrystalline microstructure.
-Unique in its balanced coverage of the three key sintering elements - densification, grain growth and microstructure.
-A key reference for students and engineers in materials science and engineering, accompanied by examination questions and selected solutions.

Green Lands For White Men - Desert Dystopias And The Environmental Origins Of Apartheid (Paperback): Meredith McKittrick Green Lands For White Men - Desert Dystopias And The Environmental Origins Of Apartheid (Paperback)
Meredith McKittrick
R380 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

McKittrick’s history of the 1918 Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. The plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority.

Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race.

While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed suffi cient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite.

A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

A History of Nebraska Agriculture: A Life Worth Living (Paperback): Jody L Lamp A History of Nebraska Agriculture: A Life Worth Living (Paperback)
Jody L Lamp
R657 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wythe County - Reflections of Farm Life Traditions (Paperback): Linda H Logan Wythe County - Reflections of Farm Life Traditions (Paperback)
Linda H Logan
R482 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Though there are more automobiles than harvesters on the roads these days, folks in "Wythe County," Virginia, keep their memories and traditions preserved in these conversations with the local twentieth-century farmers who spent their entire lives working this land. Visit with James Kegley, a fourth-generation farmer discussing his family's cattle and poultry drives to the train in Wytheville, and Agnes Eades as she shares stories about the night before butchering day for the hogs; join Fred Etter as he remembers the first tractor he ever saw and June Huffard as she talks about her dairy farm. Picture the days when starting the plow meant cracking the whip and "Wythe County" was the 'Cabbage Capital of the World.'

A Country Of 2 Agricultures - The Disparities, The Challenges, The Solutions (Paperback): Wandile Sihlobo A Country Of 2 Agricultures - The Disparities, The Challenges, The Solutions (Paperback)
Wandile Sihlobo
R280 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R30 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Nearly three decades after the dawn of democracy, South Africa has remained a country of ‘two agricultures’. On the one hand we have a subsistence, primarily non-commercial, black farming segment. On the other hand, however, we have a predominantly commercial and white farming sector that is well-resourced and has access to domestic and international trade networks.

These disparities can be traced back to South Africa’s painful history where, for decades, black farmers were on the margins of government support and also experienced land dispossession and livestock plunder.

A Country of Two Agricultures focuses less on history and more on the present and the future, explaining why these disparities have persisted in the democratic era, and what it will take to overcome them. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the variety of agricultural forces, taking into account both questions of domestic political economy and external factors, as well as to bring to light new risks and opportunities.

Wandile Sihlobo offers insights into the role of agriculture in the South African economy from an agricultural economy perspective, and provides political economy insights that are rooted in the experiences of farming communities on the ground and right through the value chain.

Beyond insights on the realities this book offers the government, the private sector, and anyone interested in the betterment of the South African economy, tools to grapple with this duality, and proposes a framework for bolstering the black farming segment for growth and competitiveness – and ultimately food security.

The Political Economy of Contract Farming in Zimbabwe (Paperback): Freedom Mazwi The Political Economy of Contract Farming in Zimbabwe (Paperback)
Freedom Mazwi
R152 R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Save R11 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Freedom Mazwi examines patterns of agricultural finance in Zimbabwe since the radical Fast Track Land Resettlement Programme (FTLRP) was implemented in 2000-and, especially, the varying impact that the FTLRP reforms have had not only on land use, but also on the well-being of farmers.Focusing on contract farming in the tobacco and sugarcane sectors, Mazwi offers penetrating insights into social contradictions and power relations in Zimbabwe's rural areas. He also assesses the institutional finance mechanisms that have emerged in response to the radical land reforms and reflects on the related political and economic isolation of the country since 2000. Not least, he suggests how agrarian policy could be restructured to better benefit small-scale farmers.

The Changing Pattern of Farming - 1912 - 2020 (Paperback): Bryan Edgley The Changing Pattern of Farming - 1912 - 2020 (Paperback)
Bryan Edgley
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Changing Pattern of Farming - 1912 - 2020 (Hardcover): Bryan Edgley The Changing Pattern of Farming - 1912 - 2020 (Hardcover)
Bryan Edgley
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mind the Gap (Paperback): Terry McCormick Mind the Gap (Paperback)
Terry McCormick
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hartstories Van Ons Land Se Boere - Om Te Boer In Vandag Se Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ivor Price, Kobus Louwrens Hartstories Van Ons Land Se Boere - Om Te Boer In Vandag Se Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ivor Price, Kobus Louwrens
R315 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Terwyl die gronddebat woed, stel dié boek ons voor aan die landbouers wat die kos verbou waarvan Suid-Afrika leef. Ivor Price en Kobus Louwrens gee ons 'n intieme blik in die daaglikse plaaslewe en uiteenlopende boere se belewenisse en stories. Of dit nou reuse agribesighede is, of klein maar geliefde plasies wat met passie bewerk word, elke boerdery is uniek en elke boer het 'n storie. 'n Inspirerende ode aan ons landbouers. 

The Farmer's Companion - or Essays on the Principles and Practice of American Husbandry (Paperback): Jesse Buel The Farmer's Companion - or Essays on the Principles and Practice of American Husbandry (Paperback)
Jesse Buel
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Farming for the Million (Paperback): George Glenny Farming for the Million (Paperback)
George Glenny
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry - a Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding,... Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry - a Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Fattening, and General Management of Fowls and Pigeons (Paperback)
John Lawrence
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The New American Orchardist - Or, an Account of the Most Valuable Varieties of Fruit, of All Climates, Adapted to Cultivation... The New American Orchardist - Or, an Account of the Most Valuable Varieties of Fruit, of All Climates, Adapted to Cultivation in the United States; With Their History, Modes of Culture, Management, Uses, &C. With an Appendix on Vegetables, Ornamental Trees (Paperback)
William Kenrick
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick - With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback):... General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick - With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback)
Alexander Lowe
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Stafford - With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback):... General View of the Agriculture of the County of Stafford - With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback)
William Pitt
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Monmouth, With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback):... General View of the Agriculture of the County of Monmouth, With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Paperback)
Charles Hassall
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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