Our Remaining Land
Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Agricultural conservation
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Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Agricultural conservation
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : United States Department Of Agriculture
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780331405064
Excerpt from Our Remaining Land: We Can Use It and Save It Productive land is essential to the well - being of any nation and the people living in the nation. Most nations do not have enough good land now; they have wasted too much of it in the past. We are more fortunate in the United States; but, ev'en here, we do not have any to spare. And, we have been destroy ing our good land at a prodigal rate. Good topsoil and water are the main things that make land productive. You cannot make fertile topsoil in a few years on most land. It takes nature centuries to do it. But topsoil can be removed from good land in a few years by careless farming; it has been removed or severely damaged on millions of acres of our American land. When the topsoil is gone, the productivity of the land is usually gone; then the people who depend on that land have poorer diets and a lower standard of living. That is why the conservation of our good land is important to everyone. Here are some facts and figures about the land that's left how we can use it and still save it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : H. Scott Butterfield
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1642831263
As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. "Rewilding" the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support. This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 1949
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Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780195531916
Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1631490834
"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).
Author : World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
Publisher : Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN :
This publication examines soil and water conservation technologies and approaches from a global perspective, using case studies from over 20 countries around the world. It addresses key environmental concerns such as desertification, poverty, water scarcity and conflicts. Various land use categories are covered (cropland, forest and grazing land) and technologies described include: conservation agriculture, manuring and composting including vermiculture, vegitative strips, agroforestry, water harvesting, gully rehabilitation, terraces and grazing land management. Co-published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), FAO, UNEP and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) on behalf of the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT), this publication sets new standards for the systematic documentation, evaluation and dissemination of knowledge on sustainable land management.
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597265179
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world. It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food.
Author : Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forests and Waters
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Forests and forestry
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