Contested Agronomy (Inbunden)
avJames (EDT) Sumberg, John (EDT) Thompson, James (EDT) Sumberg
ISBN: 9780415698061 - UTGIVEN: 2012-04The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural r[...]
Farmer First Revisited (Pocket)
avIan (EDT) Scoones, John (EDT) Thompson, Robert (FRW) Chambers
ISBN: 9781853396823 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, lau[...]
On Growth and Form (Pocket)
avD'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler (EDT) Bonner, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
ISBN: 9781107672567 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also beco[...]
