Swamp Rice Farming
Swamp Rice Farming

Author: Donald H Lambert

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1000313751

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This first detailed ethnographic account of the Pahang Malay people of peninsular Malaysia focuses on the society's traditional agricultural system, particularly on its specialization in the production of rice on largely unmodified natural swampland. Dr. Lambert discusses the historical development of Pahang Malay rice farming, its dependence on indigenous knowledge of local ecology, and its adaptability to adverse conditions. Farmers experimenting with cultivars, adapting new technologies to local conditions, and using their own seed selection skills have over several decades substantially improved their rice yields. Dr. Lambert suggests that well-adapted indigenous farming systems found throughout the world should be studied and the adoption of these successful agricultural practices should be encouraged by governments and development planners.

The Ecology of Practice
The Ecology of Practice

Author: A. Endre Nyerges

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9789056995737

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This pioneering work addresses the topic of hunger and food security in western Africa, and the contributing authors are anthropologists who seek to understand the sociocultural factors involved in the environmental and economic aspects of food production. Case studies from regions of Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone discuss how local farmers are responding to change and problems of food security. The book focuses on technology and changing patterns of resource use in a social context. This volume also has a comparative focus, both within and across cultural areas, and draws implications for planning and policy from the discussions of diverse agricultural systems. The concept of ecology of practice, which emphasizes the importance of local social arrangements in alleviating or aggravating problems of food security, makes this book valuable to readers whose interests lie within, as well as outside, western Africa.

Misreading the African Landscape
Misreading the African Landscape

Author: James Fairhead

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1996-10-17

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521563536

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An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.

From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms
From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms

Author: Michael Classens

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9780774865463

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Driving through the Holland Marsh one is struck immediately by the black richness of its soil. Located just north of Toronto, this is some of the most profitable farmland in Canada. It is also a canary in a coal mine. From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms recounts the transformation, use, and protection of the Holland Marsh, demonstrating how liberal notions of progress and nature have shaped, and ultimately imperilled, this small agricultural preserve. This fascinating case study reveals the contradictions and deficiencies of contemporary farmland preservation paradigms, highlighting the challenges of forging a more socially just and ecologically rational food system.

Water for Any Farm
Water for Any Farm

Author: Mark Shepard

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781601731463

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Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion ... just to name a few. What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans' Keyline Plan. From the back yard suburbs to 10,000-acre ranches and everywhere in between, from permafrost mountainsides just shy of the Arctic Circle, to equatorial boulder fields of East Africa, areas with 300 inches of rain per year to those with less than 3 inches, I have personally installed systems based on the Keyline design methodology and its modified forms.What you will read in this book is tried and true. It is intended to give a sufficient background to any landowner so that they can optimize their water resource for higher site productivity, have greater drought resistance and just as importantly, to know deep in their heart that they have made even one little piece of earth a little more life-filled, livable and green.

The Country Gentleman
The Country Gentleman

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1859

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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A journal for the farm, the garden, and the fireside, devoted to improvement in agriculture, horticulture, and rural taste; to elevation in mental, moral, and social character, and the spread of useful knowledge and current news.

The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume
The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-12

Total Pages: 14224

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy. Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Summer (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Madame de Stael Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman