The Quest To Conserve Rare Breeds

Author : Lawrence Alderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789247138
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest to Conserve Rare Breeds written by Lawrence Alderson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biological diversity is essential for sustainability, and in this book, Lawrence Alderson CBE corrects misconceptions while recounting the creation and development of the rare breed conservation movement. He addresses extinctions, endangered breeds, and safe-guarding genetic diversity while considering our future - challenged as it is by climate change, sustainability and feeding the world"--

Author : Lawrence Alderson
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 178924711X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest to Conserve Rare Breeds written by Lawrence Alderson and published by CABI. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges often repeated 'facts' about livestock farming, straight from the horse's mouth. In it, rare breeds expert Lawrence Alderson CBE argues for a reasoned and evidence-based approach from political and public circles. Correcting misconceptions as he goes, he recounts the creation and development of the rare breed conservation movement, addresses extinctions and genetic safe-guarding measures, and considers where we go from here. Challenged as we are by climate change, sustainability and feeding the world, perhaps it is these endangered animals that hold the answer - perhaps with them, we can adapt to our changing environment and see a way forward to a more certain future.

Author : D. Phillip Sponenberg DVM
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1612124623
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Heritage Breeds written by D. Phillip Sponenberg DVM and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed for the particular needs of the working farm, heritage breeds have proved invaluable to small-scale agricultural production for centuries. This comprehensive guide explains why conserving heritage breeds remains important and how they often can be a better choice for the modern farmer than conventional animals. With profiles of heritage poultry, sheep, cattle, and more, you’ll learn how to select and successfully raise the breed that is right for your specific needs. Enjoy the benefits of resilient livestock while preserving genetic diversity for future generations.

Author : Stuart McCook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446843
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffee Is Not Forever written by Stuart McCook and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take for granted. And finally, in putting a tropical plant disease at the forefront, he has crafted the first truly global environmental history of coffee, pushing its study and the discipline in bold new directions.

Author : Robert Dowling
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821221259
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Breeds written by Robert Dowling and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endangered farm animals. The biological treasure store of domesticated creatures just now catching the public eye.

Author : Jessica Fanzo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441128
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? written by Jessica Fanzo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author explores the interactions among food systems, diets, human health, and the climate crisis. Drawing on decades of hands-on research projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, she describes how food systems must evolve to promote healthy, sustainable, and equitable diets"--

Author : Lawrence Alderson
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747805113
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Breeds written by Lawrence Alderson and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breeds of livestock on British farms are changing constantly. New breeds emerge, foreign breeds are imported, while some native breeds lose popularity and become endangered. More than half the native breeds in Britain are rare and potentially threatened with extinction, yet they are an integral part of our history and heritage. Many of them are distinctive animals, and some possess special characteristics that could be of value to the livestock industry. A return to more traditional values was seen towards the end of the twentieth century, and this will serve to enhance the value of native breeds.

Author : Suzanne Dunaway
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909808733
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Need to Knead written by Suzanne Dunaway and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A James Beard Award nominee: “This year’s best bread book . . . produces fantastic results! . . . It should be a mandatory purchase for its pizza dough alone” (Salon). Acclaimed professional baker Suzanne Dunaway reveals her truly revolutionary technique for baking unforgettable breads that require no fuss and no special equipment. The crusts are lighter, chewier, and the crumb is moist, stays fresh longer, and has more intense flavor than most breads. Her ingredients are simply flour, water, yeast, salt—and passion. She uses no preservatives or additives of any kind. The recipes are her own creations, developed over years of trial and error. You will find focaccia, ciabatta, pane rustico, and pizza as well as breads from around the world such as baguette, sourdough flapjacks, blini, muffins, corn bread, brioche, African Spiced bread, kulich, and kolaches. In addition many of the basic bread doughs are fat-free, sugar-free, and dairy-free making then perfect for people on strict dietary or allergy regimes. There are also dozens of recipes for dishes you can make with bread: soufflés, soups, salads, and even desserts such as chocolate bread pudding. Plus, fun recipes to make with children. Suzanne Dunaway was the owner and head baker of Buona Forchetta Handmade Breads in Los Angeles, hailed as one of the seven best bakeries in the world by W Magazine. Gourmet called her breads “addictive.” “If kneading makes you need a sit down and need a rest, then this book will encourage you back into the kitchen. A great bread making class for all of us lazy bread makers.” —Foodepedia “Fabulous.” —The Telegraph

Author : Catherine Paladino
Publisher : Joy st Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316688918
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Vanishing Farm Animals written by Catherine Paladino and published by Joy st Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on eight rare breeds of endangered farm animals, imported from all parts of the world and raised on small family farms.

Author : Bryant Simon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469661373
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hamlet Fire written by Bryant Simon and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.