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Travels Through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine & Poland in the Years 1768, 1769, & 1770
- in Which is Particularly Minuted the Present State of Those Countries, Respecting Their Agriculture, Population, ...; 3
(Hardcover)
Joseph Marshall; Created by John 1735-1826 Adams, John Adams Library (Boston Public Lib
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R919
Discovery Miles 9 190
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Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia: Status, Challenges,
and Policy Options is based on agricultural extension reforms
across five South Asian countries, reflecting past experiences,
case studies and experiments. Beginning with an overview of
historical trends and recent developments, the book then delves
into country-wise reform trajectories and presents several cases
testing the effectiveness of different types (public and private)
and forms (nutrition extension, livestock extension) of extension
systems. Further, the book provides a comprehensive overview of
challenges and constraints faced in formulating and implementing
reforms, tying the results into a concrete set of lessons and
highlighting areas that require further research. In addition, the
book discusses how a major aspect of agricultural development is
the productivity increase from the knowledge base of farmers, and
how translating research results into a knowledge base for farmers
requires designing and implementing well-functioning extension
programs.
Future Proteins: Sources, Processing, Applications and the
Bioeconomy presents sources of alternative proteins and the novel
processing technologies associated with these new proteins,
including their vast food and non-food applications and their
contributions to the circular economy that ties them together.
Broken into three sections, chapters focus on alternative proteins
including cereals, legumes and pulses, fungi, seafoods, insects,
and others before assessing novel production technologies and
alternative protein applications. Through the use of content
features, specifically definitions, case studies, recent
developments, data, and methods, this reference assists readers in
understanding how to apply current knowledge and techniques to
their research. This book is intended for any stakeholders involved
in the alternative protein industry as it provides a clear and
comprehensive review of the industry. It will be of interest to
food scientists, technologists, food industry personnel, academics
and graduate students researching this and related topics.
The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique
character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for
food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration
policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets
in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and
they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies
develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of
agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The
farm labor history of California and the United States is
particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the
book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and
high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide
readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets
work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and
demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration
policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty;
unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food
Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining
immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in
relatively low-income countries portends for the future of
agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries.
The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields,"
which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant
future. The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy
makers, farmworker advocates and international development
organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural
economics and economics.
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Cow Stories
(Hardcover)
James Welch, Anne Welch
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R798
Discovery Miles 7 980
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