Tag: Agriculture

July 10, 2023

Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors

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Free Download Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors by Robert S. Anderssen, Philip Broadbridge, Yasuhide Fukumoto, Kenji Kajiwara, Matthew Simpson, Ian Turner
English | PDF (True) | 2018 | 177 Pages | ISBN : 9811078106 | 7.4 MB
This book is a collection of papers presented at the ‘Forum "Math-for-Industry" 2016 ‘ (FMfl2016), held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, on November 21-23, 2016. The theme for this unique and important event was "Agriculture as a Metaphor for Creativity in All Human Endeavors", and it brought together leading international mathematicians and active researchers from universities and industry to discuss current challenging topics and to promote interactive collaborations between mathematics and industry.

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June 26, 2023

Why Agriculture Productivity Falls The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries

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Free Download Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, "Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries"
English | ISBN: 1612498329 | 2023 | 230 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights, and accumulation. This more robust methodology leads to a comprehensive, well-balanced lens to perceive agrarian transition in developing countries. It argues that the existing process of accumulation has resulted in nonsustainable agriculture because of market failures―the result of asymmetries of power, diseconomies of scale, and unstable property rights. The book covers the historical shifts in land relations, productivity, and class relations that have led to present-day challenges in sustainability. The result is arrested productivity growth. Agrarian transition should be understood in the context of the wider economic development in society, including how political settlement and primitive accumulation inhibited the kind of property rights that encourage growth.

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June 25, 2023

Digital Ecosystem for Innovation in Agriculture

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819905761 | 439 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 78 MB
This book presents the latest findings in the areas of digital ecosystem for innovation in agriculture. The book is organized into two sections with thirteen chapters dealing with specialized areas. It provides the reader with an overview of the frameworks and technologies involved in the digitalization of agriculture, as well as the data processing methods, decision-making processes, and innovative services/applications for enabling digital transformations in agriculture. The chapters are written by experts sharing their experiences in lucid language through case studies, suitable illustrations, and tables. The contents have been designed to fulfill the needs of geospatial, data science, agricultural, and environmental sciences of universities, agricultural universities, technological universities, research institutes, and academic colleges worldwide. It helps the planners, policymakers, and extension scientists plan and sustainably manage agriculture and natural resources.

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June 25, 2023

Climate Change, Agriculture and Society

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Free Download Climate Change, Agriculture and Society: Approaches Toward Sustainability
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031282507 | 578 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 93 MB
This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale. Climate change, resilience in relation to agriculture and livelihoods and multi-dimensionality of various approaches are clearly taken into account by providing studies and perspectives on various methods and scales based on natural science to social science frameworks. This edited work contains chapters that are interdisciplinary, covering climate change, agriculture vulnerability, disaster impact, productivity efficiency, food security, livelihood resilience, land degradation, sustainability, in terms of plan and perform for transformation, sustainability and adaptation, including philosophy, change and economics, as well as the natural sciences.

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June 25, 2023

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture

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Free Download Artists and the Practice of Agriculture: Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367200791 | 284 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators. In the hands of contemporary artists, farming and foraging become forms of visual and material language that convey personal and political meanings.

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