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The World's Greatest Fix - A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture (Hardcover)
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The World's Greatest Fix - A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture (Hardcover)
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The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
tells the story of how humans have used their ingenuity throughout
history to maintain soil fertility, and to avoid famine through
productive agriculture. It starts with a layman's guide to the
relevant chemistry of nitrogen and shows how the development of
towns and fixed settlements meant that methods had to be found to
maintain the fertility of fields exploited year after year. The way
this was done, in purely empirical fashion, is described for the
Chinese, the Incas, the Mayas, and the Romans. Author G. J. Leigh
then examines the development of agriculture in England, including
the use of field rotations. The gradual evolution of more
sophisticated methods of land management is covered, emphasizing
the use of fertilizers, the early development of chemistry with the
realization of the modern concepts of elements and the
contributions of plants and animals, and the establishment of
agricultural science by Davy and Von Liebig. Leigh explains how we
have arrived at our current understanding of biological nitrogen
fixation through the efforts of generations of dedicated farmers
and researchers. Later chapters deal with the birth of the nitrogen
fixation industry and the political and economic consequences of it
in Europe (First World War) and South America (guano and nitrate).
The World's Greatest Fix shows how industrial fixation has
developed from a laboratory process newly discovered at the
beginning of the twentieth century into the impressive and
sophisticated procedure in use today. Finally, the value of
industrial nitrate to help feed the current world population and
the environmental consequences of nitrate pollution in waters is
discussed.
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