TY - BOOK AU - Brassley,Paul AU - Soffe,Richard J. TI - Agriculture: a very short introduction T2 - Very short introductions SN - 9780198725961 AV - R AC 5 V573 U1 - 081 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Agricultura N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -