The Young Desert Farmer    by Son Lal
Price: Free! 62990 words. Language: English. Published on May 28, 2013. Essay » Sociology.
A small dry sluggish feudal village in western Rajasthan came alive after the villagers managed to pump irrigation water from great depth. Tan Dan and his livestock breeding clan became commercial farmers more powerful than the former feudal lords. Tenants became landowners participating in the casteridden political game of the area. Tan Dan tried modern farming based on agricultural science.

More Water, Less Meat?    by Bruno McGrath
Price: $1.99 USD. 6240 words. Language: British English. Published by Pandora Poikilos on May 10, 2013. Nonfiction » Social Science » Agriculture & food.
“If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water.” Ismail Serageldin (1995) This ebook will focus on the feasibility of maintaining a vegetarian diet and decreasing meat consumption to preserve the global water supply, while pointing out the key problem areas as to how this situation came about in the first place.

Learning Lessons: Participatory Irrigation Management    by Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank
Price: Free! 2600 words. Language: English. Published on October 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Development / sustainable development.
In development, participation is defined as a process through which stakeholders influence and share control of development initiatives and of decisions and resources that affect them. This brief strives to answer the question: how can participation contribute to the sustainable management of irrigation and drainage systems for agriculture?

The Vegan Cat-Lover    by Wendy A.M. Prosser
Price: $0.99 USD. 5270 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2012. Essay » Sociology.
Animal welfare and animal rights: what’s the difference? Are cats sentient? Is in vitro meat ethical? And what is a vegan, anyway? Read these and other musings on veganism, speciesism and feline friends.

Holy Cow    by Darla Jasmine
Price: $4.99 USD. 47450 words. Language: English. Published by Jupiter Gardens Press on February 15, 2012. Nonfiction » Social Science » Agriculture & food.
A hip, big-breasted messiah, who just happens to be a wise and enigmatic dairy cow with healing milk, materializes in a suburban intersection. When this sacred cow calls together her apostles—some human, some Holstein—they launch a ragtag interspecies revolution to overturn the factory farm system and awaken all earthlings to their interconnection.