From the large corporation using enormous machines in the USA, to the woman with her hoe and her plot of cassava in Mozambique, to a Chinese collective farm worker in the rice fields, agriculture is essential for humanity to eat. This book looks at the many different types of agriculture and considers the challenges facing farmers today.
Dr Paul Brassley studied agriculture and agricultural economics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and agricultural history at Oxford University. He worked on a variety of farms from Scotland to Devon before teaching agricultural economics and policy at the former Seale-Hayne College in Devon for over thirty years. He has researched various aspects of agricultural history from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, most recently at the University of Exeter. He is co-editor of War, Agriculture and Food: rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s (Routledge, 2012), along with Y.Segers and L.Van Molle ; Richard Soffe, studied Agriculture and subsequently lectured Farm Management at Seale-Hayne College, University of Plymouth. He was awarded a Masters Degree in Management and Marketing from Cranfield University. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies and is currently the Director of the Rural Business School at Duchy (Cornwall) College. He is the editor of The Agricultural Notebook, 20th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) and The Countryside Notebook (Wiley Blackwell, 2005)
Introduction; Soils and crops; Farm animals; Feeding the food industry; Inputs into agriculture; Modern and traditional farming; Farming futures; Further reading; Index
Show moreFrom the large corporation using enormous machines in the USA, to the woman with her hoe and her plot of cassava in Mozambique, to a Chinese collective farm worker in the rice fields, agriculture is essential for humanity to eat. This book looks at the many different types of agriculture and considers the challenges facing farmers today.
Dr Paul Brassley studied agriculture and agricultural economics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and agricultural history at Oxford University. He worked on a variety of farms from Scotland to Devon before teaching agricultural economics and policy at the former Seale-Hayne College in Devon for over thirty years. He has researched various aspects of agricultural history from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, most recently at the University of Exeter. He is co-editor of War, Agriculture and Food: rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s (Routledge, 2012), along with Y.Segers and L.Van Molle ; Richard Soffe, studied Agriculture and subsequently lectured Farm Management at Seale-Hayne College, University of Plymouth. He was awarded a Masters Degree in Management and Marketing from Cranfield University. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies and is currently the Director of the Rural Business School at Duchy (Cornwall) College. He is the editor of The Agricultural Notebook, 20th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) and The Countryside Notebook (Wiley Blackwell, 2005)
Introduction; Soils and crops; Farm animals; Feeding the food industry; Inputs into agriculture; Modern and traditional farming; Farming futures; Further reading; Index
Show moreIntroduction
Soils and crops
Farm animals
Feeding the food industry
Inputs into agriculture
Modern and traditional farming
Farming futures
Further reading
Index
Dr Paul Brassley studied agriculture and agricultural economics at
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and agricultural history at
Oxford University. He worked on a variety of farms from Scotland to
Devon before teaching agricultural economics and policy at the
former Seale-Hayne College in Devon for over thirty years. He has
researched various aspects of agricultural history from the
seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, most recently at the
University of
Exeter. He is co-editor of War, Agriculture and Food: rural Europe
from the 1930s to the 1950s (Routledge, 2012), along with Y.Segers
and L.Van Molle
Richard Soffe, studied Agriculture and subsequently lectured Farm
Management at Seale-Hayne College, University of Plymouth. He was
awarded a Masters Degree in Management and Marketing from Cranfield
University. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural
Societies and is currently the Director of the Rural Business
School at Duchy (Cornwall) College. He is the editor of The
Agricultural Notebook, 20th edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) and The
Countryside Notebook (Wiley
Blackwell, 2005)
When YouGov-Cambridge conducted a poll in 2012 they found that 82
per cent of people have a special place in their hearts for
agriculture. However the poll also revealed that only 28 per cent
of people feel they know much about the sector. So congratulations
to the Oxford University Press for supplying a book that explains
it all.
*Mark Metcalf, Unite Landworker*
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