01603cam a2200373 a 4500 114879 114879 BJBSDDR 20230411090710.0 ta 071114s2016 enka b 001 0 eng 9780198725961 0198725965 15079931 (OCoLC)ocn181368899 (OCoLC)181368899 DLC DLC spa eng a-cc--- R AC 5 V573 081 Brassley, Paul Very Short Introduction Agriculture : a very short introduction / Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 127 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. Very short introductions ; n.473 Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122) and index. Introduction ; Soils and crops ; Farm animals ; Feeding the food industry ; Inputs into agriculture ; Modern and traditional farming ; Farming futures ; Further reading ; Index From the large corporation using enormous machines in the USA, to the woman with her hoe and her plot of cassava in Mozambique, to a Chinese collective farm worker in the rice fields, agriculture is essential for humanity to eat. This book looks at the many different types of agriculture and considers the challenges facing farmers today. 14036 Agricultura 14037 Soffe, Richard J. Very short introductions. 4546 Very short introductions ; lcc BK 0 0 0 0 REF BJB BJB REF 2020-11-26 n.473 0 R AC 5 V573 00000142713 2020-11-26 00:00:00 1 2020-11-26 BK