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  title info:
    title: Subtle agroecologies
    sub title: farming with the hidden half of nature
  name:
    name part: Wright, Julia
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Parrott, Nicholas
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xli, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
  abstract: This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn't for you, if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties, then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview - the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to get us out? This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself, Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems. Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents, from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities, this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline, explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology. Research into Subtle Agroecologies may be described as the systematic study of the nature of the invisible world as it relates to the practice of agriculture, and to do this through adapting and innovating with research methods, in particular with those of a more embodied nature, with the overall purpose of bringing and maintaining balance and harmony. Such research is an open-minded inquiry, its grounding being the lived experiences of humans working on, and with, the land over several thousand years to the present. By reclaiming and reinterpreting the perennial relationship between humans and nature, the implications …
  table of contents: Section 1: Transformative Epistemological, Philosophical and Theoretical Frameworks Re-enchanting Agriculture: Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature Julia Wright From the Mainstreaming of Western Science to the Co-evolution of Different Sciences: Addressing Cognitive Injustice Bertus Haverkort Conversations With Nature Spirits: the Political Ecology of Power and Progress in Rural Zimbabwe Georgina McAllister and Zeddy Chikukwa The Forgotten Ground: Recollecting the Primordial Harmony Joseph Milne Humans are Humus: Using Eco-psychology to Highlight the Language of Dualism and the Promise of the Non-dual Travis Cox A New Science From a Historical Figure: Goethe as Holistic Scientist Isis Brook From Quantum Biology Toward Quantum Consciousness Jack Tuszyński Healing our Relationship with Gaia Through a New Thrivability Paradigm Anneloes Smitsman and Jude Currivan Section 2: The Intersection of Wave-Based Science and Agriculture Electromagnetic Fields Mitigate Adverse Effects of Environmental Stresses in Plants Angel De Souza-Torres Synthesis of In-Situ Experimental Projects and the Practical Uses of the Method of Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Synthesis Developed by J. Sternheimer, in the Agricultural Field: Case studies of Grapevine (fungi: Esca and Mildew), Endive (bacterium: Erwinia) and Courgette (viruses: WMV2, ZYMV) Victor Prévost, Michel Duhamel, Pedro Ferrandiz and Joël Sternheimer Astronomical Rhythms in Biodynamic Agriculture: A Brazilian Case Study on the Yield and Quality of Daucus carota l. under Biodynamic Management Related to Lunar Rhythms Pedro Jovchelevich Electromagnetic Parameters Related to Plants and Their Microbiomes Ed Moerman Homeopathy Applied to Agriculture: Theoretical and Practical Considerations with Examples from Brazil Rovier Verdi, Leo Faedo and Pedro Boff Effect of Low Power Laser Biotechnology Pretreatment on Shooting and Initial Growth of Mulberry and Sugarcane Under Flood Stress Sergio Rodríguez Rodríguez, Eduardo Ortega, Juan Jo…
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Julia Wright ; contributed by Nicholas Parrott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Julia Wright has a background in international research and development, seeking to integrate ecological (organic and permaculture) thinking into conventional agricultural systems and organisations, including in humanitarian settings. After studying at Trinity St Davids (University of Wales), Silsoe College (Cranfield University) and Wye College (London University), she worked for some years in South America before undertaking a PhD at Wageningen University on the coping strategies of the Cuban farming sector during the country's period of food and fuel shortages in the 1990s, resulting in the Earthscan publication Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba (2009). Returning to the UK in 2003 to lead the International Programme of the organic NGO Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday Research Association), in 2011 she was involved in establishing the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, where she has since been developing a research programme on the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies.
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural ecology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Écologie agricole
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Aspect de l'environnement
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural ecology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Environmental aspects
  classification: S589.7 .S83 2021
  classification: 577.5/5
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1226480506
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in agroecology
  identifier: 9780429440939
  identifier: 0429440936
  identifier: 9780429804496
  identifier: 0429804490
  identifier: 9780429804502
  identifier: 0429804504
  identifier: 9780429804519
  identifier: 0429804512
  identifier: 1138339814
  identifier: 9781138339811
  identifier: 9780429440939 Taylor & Francis
  identifier: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429440939
  record info:
    record content source: UKAHL
    record creation date: 210426
    record change date: 20240130225718.3
    record identifier: in00004768874
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng