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Tomorrow´s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Pamela C. Ronald
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Description for Tomorrow´s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17. BIC Classification: KNAC; PSA; TVB; TVG. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture-genetic engineering and organic farming-is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. Readers see the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and ... Read more
Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture-genetic engineering and organic farming-is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. Readers see the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199342082
SKU
V9780199342082
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Ref
99-99
About Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. Raoul W. Adamchak has grown organic crops for thirty years. He farms and teaches at the certified organic Market Garden at the University of California, Davis Student Farm.
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