The soil and health : a study of organic agriculture /

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With a New Introduction by Wendell Berry The Soil and Health was published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to global proportions. Sir Albert Howard's work is a major inspiration to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a thought-provoking reminder of a r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howard, Albert, Sir, 1873-1947
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Colección:Culture of the land.
Temas:
Organic farming.
Organic gardening.
Plant diseases.
Plant Diseases
Agriculture biologique.
Jardinage biologique.
Plantes > Maladies et fléaux.
organic gardening.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Organic.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Plantes > Maladies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The operations of nature
  • Systems of agriculture
  • The maintenance of soil fertility in Great Britain
  • Industrialism and the profit motive
  • The intrusion of science
  • Some diseases of the soil
  • The diseases of crops
  • Disease and health in livestock
  • Soil fertility and human health
  • The nature of disease
  • Origins and scope of the problem
  • The Indore process and its reception by the farming and gardening worlds
  • The reception of the Indore process by the scientists
  • A final survey.

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