Seeds For The Future

Author : Jennifer A. Thomson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801473683

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Seeds for the Future by Jennifer A. Thomson Pdf

Plants have long been genetically modified through crossbreeding and other basic agricultural techniques to make crops more resilient, nutritious, and profitable. In recent decades, however, advances in genetic engineering--including the ability to blend genetic material from animals with that of plants--have allowed farmers to grow crops that resist insect pests, weeds, viruses, and drought; provide increased iron or beta carotene; deliver vaccines and antibodies; reduce common allergens and pollutants; and augment marketable qualities such as delayed ripening. The complicated scientific, environmental, legal, cultural, and ethical issues surrounding these crops are being hotly debated all over the world. In Seeds for the Future, an internationally respected molecular geneticist and food researcher, Jennifer A. Thomson, describes how these crops are developed, distributed, and regulated.

Author : Romeo, R., Manuelli, S., Geringer, M., Barchiesi, V. (eds)
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789251346105

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Mountain farming systems – Seeds for the future by Romeo, R., Manuelli, S., Geringer, M., Barchiesi, V. (eds) Pdf

This publication presents a collection of case studies by Mountain Partnership (MP) members from around the world, highlighting experiences of agroecological mountain farming systems. It aims to increase attention toward agroecological principles and approaches and showcase their potential. The MP, the only United Nations global voluntary alliance dedicated to sustainable mountain development, is fully committed to promoting actions that can improve the resilience of mountain people and environments. In mountains, the practice of agroecology and the conservation of agrobiodiversity results in more resilient agricultural and food systems. Sustainable mountain farming systems can drive progress towards reducing rural poverty, contributing to zero hunger, and ensuring the resilience of mountain communities while maintaining the provision of global ecosystem services, especially those related to water. Food security in mountains is a matter of concern. Through adequate and coordinated pro-mountain policies, investments, capacity development, services, and infrastructures, as well as efforts to provide smallholders and family farmers with access to innovation, mountain farming systems have the potential to become pathways for change. In doing so, they can provide valuable support and impetus to the transition to sustainable food systems, contributing to revitalizing rural areas and lifting mountain peoples out of poverty and hunger, while protecting fragile mountain environments for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Crops
ISBN : UIUC:30112101884341

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Seeds for Our Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry Bennett
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781680315530

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Shaping Your Future by Barry Bennett Pdf

The Future Is in a Seed You are the one who shapes your future! No matter how you’ve lived up until now, your past cannot derail your future because God’s potential lives in you! In Shaping Your Future, author and teacher Barry Bennett explains that God has entrusted each of us with the ability to grow our own future...

Author : Katie A. Murphy
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781601383525

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The Complete Guide to Preserving Your Own Seeds for Your Garden by Katie A. Murphy Pdf

You will learn everything you need to know to effectively grow and preserve seeds, starting with process of sowing the seeds at the very start. From there you will learn how to seed the plants until they bloom and how to select plants for harvesting and saving seeds. The process of collecting the seeds is outlined in detail with information about annual vegetables, biennial and perennial flowers. You will learn the optimal germination temperatures for your plants, as well as the best vegetables that are easiest to save for seed.

Author : Dayton Duncan
Publisher : Yosemite Conservancy
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781930238428

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Seed of the Future by Dayton Duncan Pdf

It's now a given that Americans—and people the world over—would seek to preserve their sacred, special places. One hundred fifty years ago, however, it was definitely not a foregone conclusion that the awe-inspiring granite cliffs, astounding waterfalls, and sublime sequoias of Yosemite would be protected. This idea of preservation was the national park idea; an idea that started from a seed, a seed that was planted in Yosemite. It was through the efforts of people like James Mason Hutchings, Galen Clark, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt among others that the world learned of Yosemite, flocked to it, nearly destroyed it, and ultimately saved it. These fascinating characters and their remarkable stories are skillfully woven together in this beautiful volume, created expressly to capture the wonder of Yosemite and to inspire future generations to do their part for wild places.

Author : Tim Muldoon
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809145140

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Seeds of Hope by Tim Muldoon Pdf

"Seeds of Hope asks what kind of Church we are inviting young people to join and then analyzes the contemporary social and spiritual landscapes in search of signs of hope for the future of the Church."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Theodore J. Gordon,Mariana Todorova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030184377

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Future Studies and Counterfactual Analysis by Theodore J. Gordon,Mariana Todorova Pdf

In this volume, the authors contribute to futures research by placing the counterfactual question in the future tense. They explore the possible outcomes of future, and consider how future decisions are turning points that may produce different global outcomes. This book focuses on a dozen or so intractable issues that span politics, religion, and technology, each addressed in individual chapters. Until now, most scenarios written by futurists have been built on cause and effect narratives or depended on numerical models derived from historical relationships. In contrast, many of the scenarios written for this book are point descriptions of future discontinuities, a form allows more thought-provoking presentations. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that counterfactual thinking and point scenarios of discontinuities are new, groundbreaking tools for futurists.

Author : Yoshiaki Nishikawa,Michel Pimbert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 9783030894054

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Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion by Yoshiaki Nishikawa,Michel Pimbert Pdf

This open access book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous conceptualization of seed governance often characterized as traditional vs modern, subsistence vs commercial, or local vs global. While reflecting on the expanding oligopoly in the current seed system, the authors argue that such classifications limit our ability to critically reflect on and acknowledge the diverse approaches through which seed governance is practiced around the world, at various scales, creating a mosaic of dynamic complementarities and autonomies. The authors also highlight the importance of this much needed dialogue through case studies of seed governance approaches and practices found in and around Japan.

Author : Iginio Gagliardone
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783605255

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China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet by Iginio Gagliardone Pdf

China is transforming Africa's information space. It is assisting African broadcasters with extensive loans, training and exchange programmes and has set up its own media operations on the continent in the form of CCTV Africa. In the telecommunications sector, China is helping African governments to expand access to the internet and mobile phones, with rapid and large-scale success. While Western countries have ambiguously linked the need to fight security threats with restrictions of the information space, China has been vocal in asserting the need to control communication to ensure stability and development. Featuring a wealth of interviews with a variety of actors – from Chinese and African journalists in Chinese media to Chinese workers for major telecommunication companies – this highly original book demonstrates how China is both contributing to the 'Africa rising' narrative while exploiting the weaknesses of Western approaches to Africa, which remain trapped between an emphasis on stability and service delivery, on the one hand, and the desire to advocate human rights and freedom of expression on the other. Arguing no state can be understood without attention to its information structure, the book provides the first assessment of China’s new model for the media strategies of developing states, and the consequences of policing Africa’s information space for geopolitics, security and citizenship.

Author : Sergei O. Prokofieff
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781915776044

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Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom by Sergei O. Prokofieff Pdf

‘The primary task of this book is to build a bridge to a deeper understanding of Schiller himself who, along with Goethe and Novalis, was one of the great spiritual forerunners and trailblazers of anthroposophy.’ – Sergei O. Prokofieff Planned as the second volume in a trilogy on Novalis, Schiller and Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom is much more than a conventional biography. Prokofieff shines new light on Schiller’s character and destiny, helping to establish his position as a crucial antecedent to Rudolf Steiner in the spiritual history of humanity. He also defines Schiller’s task in the context of the achievements of Goethe and Novalis at the end of the eighteenth century, an extraordinary period that saw a seminal transformation in the philosophical and artistic landscape. Following the recent publication of The Riddle of Dmitri – which explores Schiller’s unfinished drama Demetrius – Prokofieff returns here to the theme in the framework of Schiller’s life and extensive body of work. In timely fashion, he conveys Schiller’s mediating role between Central and Eastern Europe, indicating how he came ‘near to the soul of the Russian people through an idealism imbued with his entirely self-created moral power and his fiery enthusiasm for everything in the world that is true, beautiful and good’.

Author : David DeRocco
Publisher : Full Blast Productions
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781895451603

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You are what You Eat : Stories of Food in Modern Time by David DeRocco Pdf

You Are What You Eat: Stories about Food in Modern Times is a reproducible book that includes 25 stories about issues relating to food and modern food production. The stories are written at an intermediate level. The 25 topics are: Food labels, Nanotechnology and food, Food allergies, Food borne illnesses, Type 2 diabetes, Factory farming, BMI (Body Mass Index), Pesticides and food, Pollinator decline, Seedbanks, Agricultural monoculture, Water, Globalization food, Food preservatives, Obesity, Famine, Factory food, New Food Pyramid: MyPyramid, Organic food, Fast food, Slow food, White whole wheat, Genetically modified foods, Good vs. Bad Carbs, and Nutraceuticals, Each unit is complimented by a variety of exercises covering most skill areas.

Author : Oskar Kürten
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781915776099

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Mystery of the Christ by Oskar Kürten Pdf

Who is the Christ? What is the 'Sun-spirit'? How should we understand the person of Jesus in relation to the Cosmic Christ, or even to the Holy Trinity? In a majestic overview of Rudolf Steiner's extensive references to Christ and Jesus, originally dispersed throughout his many writings and lectures, Oskar Kürten creates a mutually reconcilable and coherent text. We are invited to accompany the author as he attempts to comprehend the unimaginably vast enigma of Christ's appearance on Earth. The results of his work can sometimes be overwhelming, but as Kürten points out: 'humanity is always advancing in its intellectual and spiritual culture, and each step poses higher demands on our capacity to understand'. In a volume comprising three previously-untranslated booklets, composed originally as study material for people conversant with the fundamentals of anthroposophy, Mystery of the Christ gives numerous pointers to great mysteries, inviting readers to penetrate ever more deeply into the inexhaustible subject-matter. As Kürten states, this approach enables us 'again and again to find surprisingly new insights into the mysterious interconnections in which Christ's entry into earth-existence and the Mystery of Golgotha are placed'.

Author : Victor R Preedy,Ronald Ross Watson
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780123756893

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Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention by Victor R Preedy,Ronald Ross Watson Pdf

The use of nuts and seeds to improve human nutritional status has proven successful for a variety of conditions including in the treatment of high cholesterol, reduced risk of Type-2 Diabetes, and weight control. Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention is a complete guide to the health benefits of nuts and seeds. This book is the only single-source scientific reference to explore the specific factors that contribute to these potential health benefits, as well as discussing how to maximize those potential benefits. Organized by seed-type with detailed information on the specific health benefits of each to provide an easy-access reference for identifying treatment options Insights into health benefits will assist in development of symptom-specific functional foods Includes photographs for visual identification and confirmation Indexed alphabetically by nut/seed with a second index by condition or disease

Author : William Montgomery McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136379093

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A Manual of Buddhist Philosophy by William Montgomery McGovern Pdf

This is Volume VIII of sixteen in a collection on Buddhism. Originally published in 1923, this volume looks at cosmology. All forms of Buddhism, however divergent, claim to have but three objects of worship: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.. The first is the founder of the faith, the second the teaching which he gave, and the third the order which he founded. Regarding each of the Ratnas or jewels, as they are called, an enormous amount of speculation has grown up, with many different opinions concerning the proper method of interpretation.