Agriculture Engineering

Product DescriptionWhat are the goals of agricultural science? What should the goals of agricultural science be? How do and how should the practitioners of agriculture address complex ethical questions? These questions are explored in this monumental book so that those in agriculture will begin an open dialoge on the ethics of agriculture. Discussion of foundational [...]

Product DescriptionPublic Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement. In what Darrin Nordahl calls “municipal agriculture,” elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking lots, as well as [...]

8×10 Photograph Other Sizes May Be Available Watermark Only Appears on Sample Pictures – Watermark Will Not Appear on Purchased Prints Product DescriptionTake a close look at WWI propaganda to its fullest extent with this vintage poster. To translate, it states: “Let’s take care of the poultry. I am a fine war hen. I eat [...]

ISBN13: 9780813192420 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionAt a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental [...]

ISBN13: 9781584654148 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionWhile the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth [...]