Providing insights into classical Roman domestic economy, this lengthy Latin prose work by Cato the Elder is presented here in a modern translation by Andrew Dalby, in a detailed edition composed with the culinary historian in mind. It includes information on, among many other topics, planting and maintaining olive groves, supervising the staff, making various loaves or gruels ...(展开全部)

加图研究所（Cato Institute），是位于美国首都华盛顿的自由主义智库，被誉为世界前五大智库之一。该组织由知名政治学者爱德华·H.克兰和美国第二大私人控股企业科氏工业集团的董事长兼CEO查尔斯·科克于1977年共同创立。加图研究所致力于拓展公共政策讨论的范围，以倡导传统的美国原则：有限政府、个人自由、竞争市场与世界和平。加图研究所的专家是美国媒体的常客，对公众舆论有广泛影响，对于布什政府的做法他们多有批评。

加图研究所（Cato Institute），是位于美国首都华盛顿的自由主义智库，被誉为世界前五大智库之一。该组织由知名政治学者爱德华·H.克兰和美国第二大私人控股企业科氏工业集团的董事长兼CEO查尔斯·科克于1977年共同创立。加图研究所致力于拓展公共政策讨论的范围，以倡导传统的美国原则：有限政府、个人自由、竞争市场与世界和平。加图研究所的专家是美国媒体的常客，对公众舆论有广泛影响，对于布什政府的做法他们多有批评。

扬·杜威·范德普勒格（Jan Douwe van der Ploeg），1950年生于荷兰北部的弗里斯兰。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学教授，意大利农业部部长顾问。曾任荷兰瓦赫宁根大学农村社会学系主任。主要研究领域包括农民研究、农业方式、农村发展、土地改革、食物市场、技术变迁等。主要著作包括《劳动力、市场与农业生产》《超越现代化》《揭秘农场主》《新小农阶级》《小农与农业的艺术》《中国的小农农业与农村社会》等。 叶敬忠，1967年生于江苏省沭阳县。荷兰瓦赫宁根大学社会学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括发展历史与发展理论、发展战略与农政变迁、人口流动与留守人口、小农农业与农村社会、农村教育与社会问题等。 潘璐，1981年生于山东省胶州市。中国农业大学发展研究方向管理学博士，中国农业大学人文与发展学院副教授，博士生导师。研究领域包括农民研究...(展开全部)

In modern agricultural politics, organic farming and genetic engineering occupy opposite ends of the spectrum. In the Ronald-Adamchak household, the world is not so black and white. Ronald is a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Adamchak manages the student-run organic farm on campus. Together, they're exploring the juncture where their met...(展开全部)

Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over ...(展开全部)

Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, welcome us int...(展开全部)

"Life in a Muslim Uzbek Village: Cotton Farming After Communism CSCA" aims to identify and explain aspects of Uzbek cultural life in a farming village on a 'kolkhoz' (collective farm) that account for both cultural patterns and culture change. This case study depicts the cultural changes and continuities that have occurred as a result of Uzbekistan's recent political independen...(展开全部)

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of ...(展开全部)

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of ...(展开全部)