agriculture land Books and Publications

Leasing agricultural land (En)

to improvements in access to land for farming, better agricultural production and improved ...

Maryland Farmland Conservation: Supporting Sustainable Use of Land through Tax Policy Report

Maryland’s population is increasing rapidly while the state continues to lose its agricultural lands. This study explores Maryland’s primary tax measures affecting agriculture, the agricultural use assessment (AUA) and the agricultural land transfer tax (ATT), in order to determine ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use patterns are foreseen in the next couple of decades in response to shifts in climate, greenhouse gas management initiatives, population growth and other forces. The book explores key ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Agro-MAPS. A global spatial database of subnational agricultural land-use statistics (CD-ROM) (English)

Series: FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series - CD-ROM(Updated: June 2006) This CD-ROM contains recent statistics on crop production, area harvested and crop yields, aggregated by subnational administrative districts, for more than 130 countries, in seven geographic regions (Africa, Asia, Near East in Asia, ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Managing Organic Matter in Tropical Soils: Scope and Limitations

Soil organic matter is a reservoir for plant nutrients, provides water-holding capacity, stabilizes soil structure against compaction and erosion, and thus determines soil productivity. All agriculture to some degree depends on soil organic matter. It has long been known that soil organic matter declines when ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Participatory Learning and Action 52: general issue

in government agricultural extension services in Namibia;participatory land ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Guidelines: land evaluation for rainfed agriculture - vol 52 (En )

Series: FAO Soils Bulletins ...

By Earthprint Ltd

First Wave Agricultural Revolution

Alvin Toffler's First Wave began approximately 10,000 years ago. That time marked the end of the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic) and the beginning of the New Stone Age or the Neolithic. This is approximately when the Agricultural Revolution started. People began clearing land and tilling the soil in order to ...

By Waves of the Future

Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and the Environment

of sustainability, which originated in agriculture and land use, is reaching many other areas of society and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals

be the basis for new, ecologically oriented land management disciplines, including agriculture itself. ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Land Application of Agricultural, Industrial, and Municipal By-Products

Growing interest in recycling by-products from the agricultural, industrial, and municipal sectors has brought growing environmental concerns as well. Readers will learn the science of the fundamental processes involved in recycling by-products through land application. Problems and potential benefits from ...

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Design of land consolidation pilot projects in Central and Eastern Europe, (The) (En)

. It shows why land consolidation should be considered within agricultural and rural development ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Good practice guidelines for agricultural leasing arrangements (En)

Series: FAO Land Tenure StudiesThe information in this booklet is designed to assist governments and civil society in understanding how agricultural leasing and related agreements work, and what the advantages are of providing an appropriate framework for equitable arrangements that balance the ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Water Requirements for Irrigation and the Environment

Irrigated agriculture produces about 40% of all food and fibre on about 16% of all cropped land. As such, irrigated agriculture is a productive user of resources; both in terms of yield per cropped area and in yield per volume of water consumed. Many irrigation projects, however, use (divert or withdraw) much ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Why Some Like It Hot

'Mixing hard science with personal anecdotes, Nabhan convincingly argues that health comes from a genetically appropriate diet inextricably entwined with a healthy land and culture.' -Publishers Weekly Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink ...

By Island Press

Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability

2000 with methods and results of the "Global agro-ecological assessment for agriculture ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes

The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Gender and law. Women's rights in agriculture (Revised) (En)

Women constitute a large portion of the economically active population engaged in agriculture. International instruments on human rights, the environment and sustainable development reaffirm the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of sex or gender. Yet women often face gendered obstacles in ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Economic Studies on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

, and quality, b) land and resource assessment, c) agriculture and rural development, and d) environment and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Modern Land Drainage: Planning, Design and Management of Agricultural Drainage Systems

Modern Land Drainage is a fully renewed and extended edition of Land Drainage: Planning and Design of Agricultural Drainage systems, which was first published in 1983 (Batsford, London). The book is based on traditional drainage methods for rain-fed agriculture in the humid temperature zone. Significant ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group