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Food and Farming

4 books in this series

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  Introduces different types of statistical data, such as graphs and charts.

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  Demonstrates the environmental and economical impact of globalisation on food production today.

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  Adresses how our growing global population can be fed in the future, and whether high-tech solutions such as GM crops are the answer.

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  Farming and the Environment

  Contents:
  

  • The farm ecosystem
  • Farming interdependency
  • Demand for water
  • Overuse of water
  • Spoiling the water
  • The effects of water pollution
  • Losing soil
  • The effects of soil erosion
  • Farming and the atmosphere
  • The impacts of air pollution
  • Land clearance
  • Ecosystem impacts
  • Sustainable farming
  • Topic web
  • Glossary
  • Find out more
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6670 3

  
  

  164x270mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £8.99 PB

  
  
   

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  Farming in the Future

  Contents:
  

  • The changing world of farming
  • The threat of climate change
  • Finding enough water
  • Using the Internet
  • Precision farming
  • Robot farmers
  • Genetically modified crops
  • Competing for land
  • Nanotechnology
  • Finding new foods
  • Skyscraper farms
  • Back to nature?
  • Growing food in space
  • Topic web
  • Glossary
  • Find out more
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6706 9

  
  

  191x273mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £8.99 PB

  
  
   

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  Feeding the World

  Contents:
  

  • Farming food
  • Where food grows
  • Farming for the family
  • High-input farming
  • Growing staple foods
  • Farming without chemicals
  • Animal farming
  • Free-range meat
  • Dairy farming
  • Fish farming
  • Cash crops
  • Food crisis
  • How to feed the world
  • Topic web
  • Glossary
  • Find out more
  • Index
  • Farming food
  • Where food grows
  • Farming for the family
  • High-input farming
  • Growing staple foods
  • Farming without chemicals
  • Animal farming
  • Free-range meat
  • Dairy farming
  • Fish farming
  • Cash crops
  • Food crisis
  • How to feed the world
  • Topic web
  • Glossary
  • Find out more
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6705 2

  
  

  221x271mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £8.99 PB

  
  
   

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  From Farm To Table

  Contents:
  

  • Producing food
  • Global crops
  • Food from grains
  • From plant to plate
  • In the dairy
  • Processing meat and fish
  • Soilt food
  • Preserving food
  • Prepared food
  • Food additives
  • Packaging
  • Transporting food
  • What's for dinner?
  • Glossary
  • Topic web
  • Find out more
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 6671 0

  
  

  165x270mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £8.99 PB