Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
Catalogue
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Report of the Joint FAO/WHO technical meeting on methods of planning and evaluation in applied nutrition programs : Rome, Italy, 11-16 January 1965.
Date: 1966- Books
The insects attacking stored wheat in the Punjab, and the methods of combat[sic]ing them : including a chapter on the chemistry of respiration / by J.H. Barnes and A.J. Grove.
Barnes, J. H.Date: 1916- Books
Methods for the detection of the viruses of certain diseases in animals and animal products / [Agricultural Research Council of the UK].
Agricultural Research Council (Great Britain)Date: [1976]- Books
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1770. In which the cabbage husbandry is further pursued; the culture of rape in various methods as food for cattle; the Culture of Clover, and its prodigious Value to the Farmer, exemplified by Experiments; the Culture of Wheat, by different Methods, and other Interesting Subjects. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S. And Experimenter in Agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Experiments in agriculture, made under the direction of the Right Honourable and Honourable Dublin Society, in the year 1771. In which, three comparative methods for the culture of wheat are particularly explained; the Importance to the Community and the Farmer, of sowing Wheat upon Clover-Lay, exemplified by Experiment, upon a large Scale; the Culture of Carrots upon Stiff Ground; the Culture of Horse-Beans, preparatory to Wheat; further Experiments upon Cabbages, and Clover; and other Subjects, interesting to the Husbandry of Ireland. By John Wynn Baker, F. R. S. Member of the Agriculture Society, for the Hundred of Salford, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. And Experimenter in Agriculture to the Dublin Society.
Baker, John Wynn, approximately 1730-1775.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]