Book Description
Includes chapter on Aboriginal agricultural practices, hunting, use of fire, incompatibility with European forms of agriculture; population changes.
Author : Bruce Robinson Davidson
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Includes chapter on Aboriginal agricultural practices, hunting, use of fire, incompatibility with European forms of agriculture; population changes.
Author : Ted Henzell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0643993428
Focusing on the technologies that the farmers and graziers actually used, this book follows the history of each of the major commodities of groups of commodities to the end of the 20th century, grain crops, sheep and wool, beef and dairy, wine and others. Issues facing agriculture as it enters the 21st century are also discussed.
Author : Bruce Pascoe
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922142436
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Author : Ted Henzell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643098550
Agriculture in Australia has had a lively history. The first European settlers in 1788 brought agricultural technologies with them from their homelands, influencing early practices in Australia. Wool production dominated the 19th century, while dairying grew rapidly during the first half of the 20th century. Despite having one of the driest landscapes in the world, Australia has been successful in adapting agricultural practices to the land, and these innovations in farming are explained in this well-researched volume. Focusing on the technologies that the farmers and graziers actually used, this book follows the history of each of the major commodities or groups of commodities to the end of the 20th century: grain crops, sheep and wool, beef and dairy, working bullocks and horses, sugar, cotton, fruit and vegetables, and grapes and wine. Major issues facing the various agricultural enterprises as they enter the 21st century are also discussed. Written in a readable style to suit students of history, social sciences and agriculture, Australian Agriculture will also appeal to professionals in the industry and those with a general interest in Australian sociology and history.
Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Dorian Green
Publisher : Koros Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN : 9781781631201
This title includes chapters on: soil sampling and sample preparation; judgment sampling; simple random sampling; maintaining and enhancing the soil foodweb; and, conventional fertilizers.
Author : Dean Ansell
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1760460168
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia is a book about the birds and the beef — more specifically it is about the billions of dollars that governments pay farmers around the world each year to protect and restore biodiversity. After more than two decades of these schemes in Australia, what have we learnt? Are we getting the most out of these investments, and how should we do things differently in the future? Involving contributions from ecologists, economists, social scientists, restoration practitioners and policymakers, this book provides short, engaging chapters that cover a wide spectrum of environmental, agricultural and social issues involved in agri-environment schemes.
Author : Peter Sutton
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780522877854
"An authoritative study of pre-colonial Australia that dismantles and reframes popular narratives of First Nations land management and food production. Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians had been led to believe because it resembled more closely the farming communities of Europe. In Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe ask why Australians have been so receptive to the notion that farming represents an advance from hunting and gathering. Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders, previously not included within this discussion, and decades of anthropological scholarship, Sutton and Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional European farming methods. 'Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?' asks Australians to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal society and culture"--Publisher's description.
Author : Francesca Merlan
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921536535
A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly `neoliberal' rural policy - with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society. Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings.
Author :
Publisher : Department
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Agricultural subsidies
ISBN : 9780642252005