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Author: Ted Henzell
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0643993428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing 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: Justin Healey
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781925339444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgriculture makes an important contribution to all Australian consumers and to the national economy, exporting two thirds of total production. The face of Australian agriculture has changed over the past two centuries as farmers have developed resilience and adapted to environmental and economic trends. The challenges have been many and varied: changes to land use and farm management practices in response to climate change, water restrictions, farm debt, financial and health pressures on farmers, reliance on seasonal and migrant workers, as well as variable productivity and international competition. This book examines the current state of the agriculture sector and the environmental and economic outlook. What is the future of farming in Australia?
Author: L. R. Malcolm
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe whole-farm or farm-management approach is used throughout.
Author: Chris Stokes
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0643102051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change. More than 30 authors have contributed to this book, which moves beyond describing the causes and consequences of climate change to providing options for people to work towards adaptation action. Climate change implications and adaptation options are given for the key Australian primary industries of horticulture, forestry, grains, rice, sugarcane, cotton, viticulture, broadacre grazing, intensive livestock industries, marine fisheries, and aquaculture and water resources. Case studies demonstrate the options for each industry. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change summarises updated climate change scenarios for Australia with the latest climate science. It includes chapters on socio-economic and institutional considerations for adapting to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions sources and sinks, as well as risks and priorities for the future.
Author: Bruce Pascoe
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781922142436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDark 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: Sarah Blagrove
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1486305911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed. When faced with providing food for so many people, the idea is often advanced that Australia will become the 'food bowl' of Asia. Australia currently grows enough food to feed about three times its population and agricultural exports are important to our economy; however, Australia's role in feeding the world needs careful consideration. This highly topical book draws together the latest intelligence on the sustainable production and distribution of food and other products from Australian farms. It examines questions that policy-makers, farmers, politicians, agricultural scientists and the general public are asking about the potential productivity of our arable land, the environmental and economic impacts of seeking to increase productivity, and the value of becoming cleaner and greener in our agricultural output. With chapters on the emergence of new markets, consumer trends in China, the biophysical constraints on agricultural expansion, and the various products of Australian agriculture and aquaculture, Australia's Role in Feeding the World provides valuable insight into the future of agriculture in this nation.
Author: Christopher Mayes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1786600986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements. This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault’s method of genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization of the present to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular, the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary Australia.
Author: Anne Clark
Publisher: Pascal Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781877085215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompletely revised providing up-to-date figures, graphs, statistics and the latest agricultural developments. It is directed towards the NSW course but suits all senior agriculture courses in Australia. Encourages students to take an enquiry-based approach to learning and provides activities, Internet sites and extension activities.
Author: Imre Molnar (Ph.D.)
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 9780855610371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Muhammad Farooq
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 3319479288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling efforts, and potential benefits, experiences, challenges and innovations relevant to agriculture in dryland areas around world.
