#farming

See tagged statuses in the local bookrastinating.com community

& picks of the day:

➡️ @droughtcenter - The National Drought Mitigation Center, tracking drought conditions in USA

➡️ @CAFS - Canadian academic association encouraging research into food systems

➡️ @sentientmedia - Non-profit org looking at effects of factory farming on animals & environment

➡️ @sarahtaber - Crop scientist, ex-farmworker, running for office as Commissioner of Agriculture

➡️ @jocelynbosse - Legal expert researching plant, food & agricultural IP law

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commented on "Wenn der Bauer pfeift, dann müssen die Heuerleute kommen!" - Betrachtungen und Forschungen zum Heuerlingswesen in Nordwestdeutschland by Helmut Lensing

Helmut Lensing, Bernd Robben: "Wenn der Bauer pfeift, dann müssen die Heuerleute kommen!" - Betrachtungen und Forschungen zum Heuerlingswesen in Nordwestdeutschland (2020, Verlag der Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte) No rating

I snagged this book while visiting the Open Air Museum in Cloppenburg (which I recommend highly to anyone interested in the history and lifestyle of rural farms in Northwestern Germany - just make sure you have an entire day's worth of time to see all of it).

This book details the life and problems of rural tenant farmers in Northwestern Germany - people who did not own their own land, but had to rent it from the wealthier farmers and do manual labor for those same farmers in order to get by.

There are reasons why approximately 5.5 million Germans emigrated in the 19th century up until WWI, and the desperate poverty of much of the rural population is a huge part of it. #Germany #history #farming

What Your Food Ate How to Heal Our Land And Reclaim Our Health

Are you really what you eat?
David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.

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The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction – and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. Yet millions still go hungry.

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It's just occurred to me that in medicine, we have clinical trials that consider the effect of a drug on the whole system - a whole human body. If you get a brain tumour from a kidney treatment, they'll notice.

But for food/farming, that's not the case. We never do trials on the whole system - the natural environment. It's only ever local - effects on yield in one field. And maybe that's why modern food systems cause problems, for the climate, human health etc.