Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries

Cannabis Careers: The Insider's Guide to a Budding Industry is a comprehensive resource for individuals interested in entering the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania.

Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability.

Every new tractor now contains built-in sensors that collect data and stream it to cloud-based infrastructure.

Agriculture in Australia has had a lively history.

Eat more fish, thedoctors say.

When's the last time you picked up a business book that was so engaging you couldn't put it down?

When's the last time you picked up a business book that was so engaging you couldn't put it down?

Published for the Private Planning Association of Canada as part of the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series, this book covers impact of trade liberalization on Canadian agriculture, prospects for trade liberalization in agriculture, as well as trade liberalization and the Canadian pulp and paper industry and trade liberalization and the Canadian furniture industry.

Originally published in 2011, Fields of Learning remains the single best resource for students, faculty, and administrators involved in starting or supporting campus farms.

Issues including climate variability, water scarcity, animal welfare and declining biodiversity have led to increasing demands on farmers to conduct and communicate their farming practices so as to protect their ‘social licence to farm’.

Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means?

Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production in this very important region.

In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950.

This book demonstrates a successful and sustainable model for value addition to millets from production to consumption.

The international or multi-national corporation has become an important phenomenon in today's business world and Massey-Ferguson is an ideal example of such an organization.

Sheep Farming for Meat and Wool contains practical, up-to-date information on sheep production and management for producers throughout temperate Australia.

Sustainability is beginning to transform the food industry with environmental, economic and social factors being considered, evaluated and implemented throughout the supply chain like never before.

First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation.

Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation.

It is believed that the major countries of the former Soviet Union-specifically Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine (KRU region)-are the part of the world with the most potential to increase food supplies and strengthen world food security.

The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector.

The ancient counties surrounding the Weald in the SE corner of England have a strongly marked character of their own that has survived remarkably well in the face of ever-increasing population pressure.

This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the devastating environmental impacts of animal agriculture—and new paths to sustainability.

Animal husbandry plays an increasingly important role throughout the world in the fulfillment of the primary need of mankind: food.

In der Überarbeitung des Buchs haben neue fachliche Erkenntnisse sowie laufende Aktualisierungen von DIN-Normen, die zu berücksichtigen sind, dazu geführt, dass das Anerkennungsverfahren der Leitlinie entsprechend den Regelungen in der VO (EG) 852/2004 über Lebensmittelhygiene noch nicht abgeschlossen werden konnte.

Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it Drew A.

Study of the abiding farm question in twentieth-century United States history has directed the authors attention to the period 1919-1923 as a turning point in the great economic, political, and social trends of agriculture.

Food has a fundamental position in society, ensuring health, happiness and political stability.

There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so.

In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the rural-urban divide and how this widening chasm between rural America and urban centers threatens our democracy.

Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach introduces a new concept in the handling of fresh fruits and vegetable.

Agricultural growth, bolstered by technological advancements and international trade, enhances economic stability and food security in many developing nations in one hand, and reduces income disparities between developed and less developed nations on the other.

Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent.

The Board on Agriculture (BA), in this self-initiated study, reaffirms recommendations it made for the U.

An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it Drew A.

Agricultural policy reform has become a very hot topic.

This book on Russia examines historical reforms and interventions affecting agriculture and assesses their impact on the rural economy.

An analytical discussion of the implications of liberalizing agriculture and changing agricultural trade rules in the WTO.

Essential reading for all those interested in horticulture, from students to keen gardeners.

From the author of Dividing Western Waters comes a book on the development of the arid West--in particular the development of Arizona--as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona.

Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness.