What We Harvest

What We Harvest
Author: Ann Fraistat
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0593382161

For fans of Wilder Girls comes a nightmarish debut guaranteed to keep you up through the night, about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange disease that's slowly claiming everyone she loves. Wren owes everything she has to her hometown, Hollow’s End, a centuries-old, picture-perfect slice of America. Tourists travel miles to marvel at its miracle crops, including the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren’s family’s farm. At least, they did. Until five months ago. That’s when the Quicksilver blight first surfaced, poisoning the farms of Hollow’s End one by one. It began by consuming the crops, thick silver sludge bleeding from the earth. Next were the animals. Infected livestock and wild creatures staggered off into the woods by day—only to return at night, their eyes fogged white, leering from the trees. Then the blight came for the neighbors. Wren is among the last locals standing, and the blight has finally come for her, too. Now the only one she can turn to is her ex, Derek, the last person she wants to call. They haven’t spoken in months, but Wren and Derek still have one thing in common: Hollow’s End means everything to them. Only, there’s much they don’t know about their hometown and its celebrated miracle crops. And they’re about to discover that miracles aren’t free. Their ancestors have an awful lot to pay for, and Wren and Derek are the only ones left to settle old debts.

A Blighted Harvest

A Blighted Harvest
Author: Peter Gibbon
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780865433878

An in-depth look at the social and political results of the World Bank agricultural adjustment policies. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Hagar

Hagar
Author: T. T. Purvis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1881
Genre: Manners and customs
ISBN:

Liffey and Lethe

Liffey and Lethe
Author: Patrick R. O'Malley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019250763X

Focusing on literary and cultural texts from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, Patrick R. O'Malley argues that in order to understand both the literature and the varieties of nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, we must understand the various modes in which the very notion of the historical past was articulated. He proposes that nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture present two competing modes of political historiography: one that eludes the unresolved wounds of Ireland's violent history through the strategic representation of a unified past that could be the model for a liberal future; and one that locates its roots not in a culturally triumphant past but rather in an account of colonial and specifically sectarian bloodshed and insists upon the moral necessity of naming that history. From myths of pre-Christian Celtic glories to medieval Catholic scholarship to the rise of the Protestant Ascendancy to narratives of colonial violence against Irish people by British power, Irish historiography strove to be the basis of a new nationalism following the 1801 Union with Great Britain, and yet it was itself riven with contention.

Postharvest Handling and Diseases of Horticultural Produce

Postharvest Handling and Diseases of Horticultural Produce
Author: Dinesh Singh
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 100038912X

Presents the most recent developments in the field of postharvest handling technologies and diseases in a single volume. Includes postharvest diseases of cut flowers, fruits, vegetables, and tubers crops. Appropriate for students, researchers and professionals. Written by experts which can be used as a reference resource.

Smallholders, globalization and policy analysis

Smallholders, globalization and policy analysis
Author:
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2004
Genre: Agricultural systems
ISBN: 9789251058862

The challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals, and particularly the halving of poverty and hunger by 2015, is immense; and particularly so in rural areas where nearly half of the population lives on less than one dollar a day and one-third are undernourished. More than two-thirds of the poor in rural areas are smallholder farmers, whose resources, livelihood patterns and income sources are quite heterogeneous. Smallholders as a group, including the non-poor, still dominate most farming systems of developing countries and, on the positive side, account for a majority of rural employment, most food production and significant export earnings.