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  • America's Private Forests

    Status And Stewardship

    by Constance Best, Laurie A. Wayburn, Pacific Forest Trust ...
    Nearly 430 million acres of forests in the United States are privately owned, but the viability, and indeed the very existence, of these forests is increasingly threatened by population growth, sprawling urbanization, and patchwork development. Scientists, policymakers, and community leaders have begun to recognize the vital role of private forests in providing society with essential goods and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Too High to Fail

    Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution

    by Doug Fine ...
    The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal cannabis industry and how the “new green economy” is shaping our countryThe nation’s economy is in trouble, but there’s one cash crop that has the potential to turn it around: cannabis (also known as marijuana and hemp). According to Time, the legal medicinal cannabis economy already generates $200 million annually in taxable proceeds from a mere two ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Bluebacks and Silver Brights

    A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

    by Norman Safarik, Allan Safarik ...
    A captivating memoir set during the pinnacle of West Coast fishingMore than a history of the Vancouver fishing industry, Bluebacks and Silver Brights is a collection of great adventures set on the Pacific coast. With dozens of salty tales of hardworking and hard-living fisherman and fish industry workers, this is Norman Safarik's story of West Coast fishing from the Gulf of Georgia to Prince ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real Dirt

    An Ex-industrial Farmer's Guide to Sustainable Eating

    by Harry Stoddart ...
    Real Dirt is a groundbreaking book for any reader interested in learning more about where food comes from. Harry Stoddart shares years of experience and knowledge in his quirky dissection of agriculture and what we eat. Among his many achievements, he has developed a farming system he believes is the starting point for genuinely sustainable agriculture. A sixth-generation farmer, Harry bought his ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Nature and Farming

    Sustaining Native Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes

    by David Norton FLS, Nick Reid ...
    Conserving and enhancing native biodiversity on farms brings many benefits as well as providing many challenges. Nature and Farming explains why it is important to sustain native plants and animals in agricultural landscapes, and outlines the key issues in developing and implementing practical approaches to safeguarding native biodiversity in rural areas. The book considers the range of ecological ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Interpreting Soil Test Results

    What Do All the Numbers Mean?

    Edited by Pam Hazelton, Brian Murphy ...
    Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference for those who need to interpret results from laboratory analysis of soil. It has a comprehensive listing of the soil properties relevant to most environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. The precursor to this book, What Do All the Numbers Mean?, known as The Numbers Book, was widely used and accepted for interpreting ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Integral Community Enterprise in Africa

    Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

    by Anselm Adodo ...
    Series series Transformation and Innovation
    At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

    An Imperfect Storm

    Edited by Johan F.M. Swinnen ...
    After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world.It was decided ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Coconut Calvary: An Inquirer I-Team Special Report

    by philippinedailyinquirer ...
    In this three-part special report, originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, i-Team editor Fernando del Mundo delves into the long-simmering controversy over the Philippine coconut levy funds and finds that the coconut farmers intended to be the funds' beneficiaries have been left largely empty-handed. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Different Land

    Memories of Empire from the Farmlands of Kenya

    by Hilary Sunman ...
    In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her father's work with her own experience as a development economist to discuss colonial policy. Focusing on themes such as All the the 'White Highlands', race, colonial leadership, and the rise ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of 2013 World Agricultural Outlook Conference

    Edited by Shiwei Xu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years. In fact, the global economy and stability has been severely challenged by the precarious state of food security, which was exacerbated by a combination of sharp price volatility and disastrous weather conditions related to climate change. The book aims to improve the analysis and projection of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD