Sowing Seeds in the Desert

Sowing Seeds in the Desert
Author: Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603584188

Argues that the Earth's deteriorating condition is man-made and outlines a way for the process to be reversed by rehabilitating the deserts using natural farming.

Farming the Desert

Farming the Desert
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1996
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Arid regions agriculture
ISBN: 1603584536

This book lays out a variety of practical ways to prepare for a changing climate by paying attention to soil, water harvesting, types of crops planted, and ways to protect pollinators.

Desert Or Paradise

Desert Or Paradise
Author: Sepp Holzer
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603584641

Outlines the author's ten points of sustainable self-reliance, details pond and lake construction, and discusses biodiversity.

Farming the Desert: Synthesis

Farming the Desert: Synthesis
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

This survey by UNESCO provides scientific data on the desert margins of North Africa. It examines the dense settlements that existed in these areas around 2000 years ago, analyzing the agricultural methods and way of life of those who lived in them.

The Natural Way of Farming

The Natural Way of Farming
Author: Masanobu Fukuoka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9788185987002

...A natural way of farming that renounces all human knowledge and intervention. - preface.

Call of the Reed Warbler

Call of the Reed Warbler
Author: Charles Massy
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603588140

“Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence." --Paul Hawken In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is the story of how a grassroots revolution—a true underground insurgency—can save the planet, help reduce and reverse climate change, and build healthy people and healthy communities, pivoting significantly on our relationship with growing and consuming food. Using his personal experience as a touchstone—from an unknowing, chemical-using farmer with dead soils to a radical ecologist farmer carefully regenerating a 2000-hectare property to a state of natural health—Massy tells the real story behind industrial agriculture and the global profit-obsessed corporations driving it. With evocative stories, he shows how other innovative and courageous farmers are finding a new way. At stake is not only a revolution in human health and in our communities, but the very survival of the planet. For farmers, backyard gardeners, food buyers, health workers, policy makers, and public leaders alike, Call of the Reed Warbler offers a tangible path forward and a powerful and moving paean of hope. It’s not too late to regenerate the earth. Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the future of our food supply, our planet, and our health.

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Author: Aidan Tynan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474443370

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Settling the Desert

Settling the Desert
Author: L. Berkofsky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1000681548

First published in 1981. Settling the Desert is an attempt to organise those aspects of scientific and sociological research that are the necessary prerequisites for making the desert a comfortable and profitable place for man to inhabit. In this book, experts from many fields of desert research review the history of desert settlement and agriculture, as well as the present problems encountered by modern desert settlers. Topics discussed include: meteorology, sociology, ecology, water resources, solar energy, innovative desert agriculture, architecture, and animal science.