Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation (eBook)

Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture

C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala (Autoren)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
376 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780470290002 (ISBN)

Infos

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation
Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques
that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture.

With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and
cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social
Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation
Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension;
The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and
Future.

Autor

C. Milton Coughenour is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley. Shankariah Chamala is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping; Plow Culture in the United States and Australia; Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces; The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the united States; The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia; The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland; Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future; Bibliography; Acronyms; Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • crops • Feldfrüchte • Feldfrüchte • Landwirtschaft
• ISBN-13: 9780470290002 / 9780470290002