页数： 272 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2020-3-12

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英文简介: From a veteran organic grower: a unique agricultural methodology that delivers higher yields, higher quality, and higher profitability―absolutely free of herbicides or pesticides

No-till farming has rapidly grown in popularity among vegetable growers due to its high-quality, high-yield, high-profit results. Renowned organic grower Bryan O’Hara perfected the technique during the multi-year transition of his Connecticut vegetable farm to a no-till system. His vibrantly healthy, resilient plants are testaments to the value of allowing the inherent biological functions in soil to do their work.

In No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture, O’Hara describes the methods he has developed, which are completely free of herbicides or other pesticides and require only a few acres of land and minimal capital investment. He asserts that this flexible, ecological methodology is as important for soil fertility as it is for his economic success. This comprehensive manual delves into all facets of a dynamic, holistic growing system, including:

No-till bed preparation techniques
Seeding and transplanting methods
Irrigation
Use of fertilizers (including foliar feeds)
Composting (preparation and application)
Culture of indigenous microorganisms to support soil biology
Pest and disease management
Year-round growing
Harvest and storage techniques

O’Hara also explores the spiritual dimension of managing a farm ecosystem: observing the natural balance between plants, soil, air, water, and sunlight and the ways in which working to maintain that balance influences practical production decisions.

Whether you’re a high-yield producer, a homesteader, or a market gardener, No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture is the go-to vegetable grower’s manual for the twenty-first century. O’Hara’s advanced yet accessible methodology will both help you respond to natural systems and adapt to meet future challenges.

页数： 240 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2019-10-25

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英文简介: An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia

Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.

页数： 304 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2019-8-20

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英文简介: Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam--in the Lobéké forest region of southeastern Cameroon. By slotting forest communities into ecological categories such as "hunters" and "gatherers," previous analyses of social relationships in tropical forests have resulted in binary frameworks that render real-life relationships invisible and that have perpetuated correspondingly misleading labels, such as "pygmy." Through rich descriptive detail resulting from field work among the Bangando, Stephanie Rupp illustrates the complexity of social ties among groups and individuals, and their connections with the natural world. She demonstrates that social and ethno-ecological relations in equatorial African forests are nuanced, contested, and shifting, and that the intricacy of these links must be considered in the design and implementation of aid policies and strategies for conservation and development.

页数： 360 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2019-8-20

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英文简介: Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan’s long history.

Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess.

In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago’s largest carnivores was systematically erased.

The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan’s modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."

页数： 288 到书日期： 2021-9-9 上传日期： 2019-8-7

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英文简介: Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry’s economic crisis and Sri Lanka’s twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 2008 and 2017, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors.

In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. This vivid and engaging ethnography sheds light on an otherwise marginalized and often invisible minority whose labor and collective heritage of dispossession as "coolies" in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka’s global recognition, economic growth, and history as a postcolonial nation.

页数： 352 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2019-8-5

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英文简介: Seattle would not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in shaping the city from its founding amid existing indigenous towns in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-averse modern city.

When newcomers first arrived in the 1850s, they hastened to assemble the familiar cohort of cattle, horses, pigs, chickens, and other animals that defined European agriculture. This, in turn, contributed to the dispossession of the Native residents of the area. However, just as various animals were used to create a Euro-American city, the elimination of these same animals from Seattle was key to the creation of the new middle-class neighborhoods of the twentieth century. As dogs and cats came to symbolize home and family, Seattleites’ relationship with livestock became distant and exploitative, demonstrating the deep social contradictions that characterize the modern American metropolis.

Throughout Seattle’s history, people have sorted animals into categories and into places as a way of asserting power over animals, other people, and property. In The City Is More Than Human, Frederick Brown explores the dynamic, troubled relationship humans have with animals. In so doing he challenges us to acknowledge the role of animals of all sorts in the making and remaking of cities.

页数： 256 到书日期： 2016-3-18 上传日期： 2015-10-10

中文概要: 良好的放牧管理体系将让农民充分了解放牧管理的主要原则，使他们能够自行设计和管理成功的放牧系统。本书视角独特，将首先从植物的角度，然后从畜牧的角度呈现信息，使读者充分了解建立放牧系统前的植物和动物的需求。本书的第三部分将这一信息与详细设计和管理相结合。本书面向放养反刍动物的牧民，重点关注奶牛、肉牛和羊。本书中还包括一些有机牧场的特定要求，但都将同时适用于非有机和有机农场。

有关放牧话题的其他书籍要么是古板过时的（比如Murphy的《Greener Pastures On Your Side of the Fence》，或者比较现代但缺乏必要的技术细节（比如Gerrish的《Management Intensive Grazing》以及《Kick the Hay Habit, Nation’s Quality Pasture》），或者技术性太高，使得普通牧民无法掌握（比如Ed Rayburn的书）。本书将填补放牧书籍方面的空白，面向农民和服务业者，呈现更容易阅读和理解的信息。(LYR)

英文简介: Good Grazing Management will allow farmers to gain a solid understanding of the key principles of grazing management so that they can both design and manage successful grazing systems. The book’s unique approach will present information first from the plant perspectives, and then from the livestock perspective—giving the readers an understanding of both plant and animal needs before setting up the grazing system. The third section of the book will combine this information with that of detailed design and management. The book will be oriented to ruminant farmers with an emphasis on dairy, beef, and sheep. It will include some of the pasture requirements specific to organic farmers, but will be of use to both non-organic and organic farms.

Other books on grazing are either solid but outdated (Murphy’s Greener Pastures On Your Side of the Fence), more recent but lacking in necessary technical detail (Gerrish’s Management Intensive Grazing and Kick the Hay Habit, Nation’s Quality Pasture), or are so technical that they are inaccessible to most farmers (Ed Rayburn’s books, for example). Good Grazing Management will fill the gap in the library of grazing books, oriented to farmers and service providers who are looking for technical information presented in way that is easier to read and understand.

页数： 183 到书日期： 2015-10-8 上传日期： 2015-7-24

中文概要: ★你是好奇心旺盛的吃货，还是热衷于考究的植物极客？

★为什么我们把小麦、大米、土豆作为主食？

★为什么我们要栽培含有剧毒氰化物的木薯？

★为什么我们常吃的坚果是杏仁而不是橡子？

★为什么兰花有两万多种，人类的食谱却只选择了香荚兰？

回答上述问题，都要从这些栽培植物的起源说起。

这本关于餐桌植物的“冷知识大全”专为身为吃货的你量身打造。本书将带你踏上一段关于餐桌植物的时空穿越之旅，揭秘这些蔬果、谷物和香料令人大跌眼镜的原貌和风味，再现它们与人类漫长互动中的那些恩怨情仇。原来，人类与这些栽培植物之间的关系，并不仅仅体现于农业生产中的杂交育种工作，而是与古代先民的生活、世界各地的习俗、宗教传说故事以及近代以来的殖民地扩张和全球经济发展都息息相关。

地球上现存植物超过40万种，然而为人类驯化并作为日常食物的却仅有其中200种；人体所需的一半以上的热量和蛋白质仅来自于三种栽培植物：玉米、水稻和小麦；世界各地早期农耕文明中的先民，竟都不约而同地选择了四大植物家族作为日常饮食之选……想要将野生植物培育为餐桌上的美味，究竟需要克服怎样的困难？而我们如今食用的粮食、蔬菜和水果，是否还保留着它们“祖先”*初的模样？自古以来，在人类尝试培育这些植物的过程中，总是充满了惊险刺激，而又不无偶然。作者挑选50余种餐桌上的植物“常客”，以英国人特有的幽默感，讲述其背后鲜为人知的栽培历史，道出它们在各国文化中的深层含义。(DD)

英文简介: Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: - Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; - Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; - The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and - Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition!

页数： 240 到书日期： 2015-2-5 上传日期： 2015-2-5

中文概要: 酒与酒贸易可以说是早就渗透进了人类的文化与历史之中；几乎鲜少有什么货物可以像酒这样在文化领域意义非凡同时又能在时间的洗礼中获得如此广泛的认可----甚至有人称其为“神仙水”。尽管人类生产和饮用酒的历史已长达数个世纪，然后有关于酒的经济学又有着怎样的独特之处呢？马克教授的这本书可以说是通俗易懂，对酒文化背后的经济学进行了深入探究，既应用了基础原理和专门类话题，同时又强调了微观经济学和相关研究成果。

除了从国际贸易和公共选择等的经济学课题出发，《酒与经济学》还将经济推理与酒市场中的管理问题联系到一起。探讨话题从经济基础、酒及政府，谈到了解酒瓶中液体的挑战以及酒作为一种文化食物的重要性。

本书对酒这一话题的介绍和引入可谓是既新颖又深刻，不论是对学生、学者还是任何对酒以及酿酒业感兴趣的人而言都是十分珍贵和无价的。(DC)

英文简介: Wine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time—even seen by some as “an elixir of life”. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks’s book is an accessible exploration of the economics of wine, using both basic principles and specialized topics and emphasizing microeconomics and related research.

Drawing upon economic themes such as International Trade and Public Choice, Wine and Economics also relates economic reasoning to management issues in wine markets. The discussion ranges from economic fundamentals and wine and government, to the challenge of knowing what is in the bottle and the importance of wine as a cultural good.

This novel and comprehensive introduction to the subject is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and anyone interested in wine and the wine industry.

页数： 140 到书日期： 2013-4-7 上传日期： 2013-3-15

中文概要: 《提高亚洲的灌溉水平》基于对灌溉系统的可持续新型干预的20年深度研究。这一研究揭示了干预效果的关键因素，并阐述了资源管理和发展援助的管理经验。

1985年，尼泊尔水与能源委员会秘书处和国际灌溉管理研究所为克服普遍的“最佳实践”陷阱，在19个尼泊尔中部丘陵地带的灌溉系统开发了关于协助灌溉系统灵活干预计划。这本书突出了该项目的创新性，基于农民对当地知识和创造力进行灌溉系统的操作，为他们提供足够机会做决定。本书作者Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan 和Ganesh P. Shivakoti对这些干预提供了详细的分析，支持农民能够建立新型干预的结论，不仅提供了对物质的改造，也提高了农民的问题解决能力。作者主张达到实际应用中的持续改善，需要农民们通过长时间的集体行动，并支持当地组织领导和鼓励结构调整的企业家。这项研究提供了切实的政策解决方案，为进行发展研究、资源管理和灌溉研究的学术机构和学者们，以及国际机构发展专家，政府和国际捐助机构的政策制定者们提供了极佳的宝贵读物。（Pêche）

英文简介: The late Elinor Ostrom, formerly Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, US and 2009 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research on economic governance, Wai Fung Lam, Professor of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Prachanda Pradhan, Patron, Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) Promotion Trust, Nepal and Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand ‘A unique and significant longitudinal study of irrigation intervention in FMIS in Nepal that revives important debates on how irrigation management evolves and how this can be investigated. This concise and accessible book can inform and challenge agencies and donors to reflect on policies and researchers to argue further the study of collective action and political theory in irrigation management.’ – Linden Vincent, Wageningen University, The Netherlands ‘Improving Irrigation in Asia by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues is grounded in intimate detail on water management experience in Nepal while being informed by broadly-applicable concepts and behavioral theories. It greatly advances our understanding of management options and effects. As the water resources available for agriculture become more limited and unreliable, the efficiency and productivity with which irrigation water is used must be increased. While better technology can assist in this quest, the greatest potential gains lie in the social and organizational domains.’ – Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US ‘Governance of irrigation systems is complex, needing social, technical and financial actions that support farming. Few people have as much knowledge of self-governing irrigation systems as these authors, and few countries have as many of these systems as Nepal. Lessons from these small irrigation systems can be adapted to much larger units, and to other kinds of activity. External assistance on a modest scale could generate practical benefit, by encouraging self-reliance in communities.’

– Charles Abernethy, International Irrigation Management Institute, Colombo (1987–94) and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (1996–99)

Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of interventions, and explicates lessons for resource management and the management of development assistance.

In 1985, the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat of Nepal and the International Irrigation Management Institute developed an ingenious intervention program for nineteen irrigation systems located in the middle hills of Nepal in an attempt to overcome the prevailing ‘best-practices’ traps, in regard to assisting irrigation systems. This book highlights the innovativeness of the project lay in its provision of ample opportunities for farmers to make decisions regarding the operation of the irrigation system based on their local knowledge and creativity. The authors of this work, Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan and Ganesh P. Shivakoti provide detailed analysis of these interventions and support the conclusion that farmers can build on an innovative intervention that not only provides physical improvements but also enhances farmers’ problem-solving capacity. They argue that to achieve sustainable improvements in performance, the farmers themselves need to engage in collective action over time and support local entrepreneurs who provide leadership and stimulate adjustments to change.

Providing practical policy solutions, this study will prove a fascinating and invaluable read for academics and scholars of development studies, resource management, and irrigation studies, as well as development specialists in international agencies, policymakers in governments and international donor agencies.