Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries

This book explores structural changes in India's agrifood systems during the next ten to twenty years.

Winner of the 2001 President's Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry.

Did you know that a staggering 62% of the food in our supermarkets is ultra-processed - and that eating these foods slowly poisons us over time?

Conserving and enhancing native biodiversity on farms brings many benefits as well as providing many challenges.

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

Following on from the CGIAR study by Evenson and Gollin (published by CABI in 2003), this volume provides up-to-date estimates of adoption outcomes and productivity impacts of crop variety improvement research in sub-Saharan Africa.

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support.

Cornucopia explores the health and economic implications of U.

Agribusiness is an emerging issue in the field of agriculture.

"e;A rich, complex history .

Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L.

The use of spectroscopy in food analysis is growing and this informative volume presents the application of advanced spectroscopic techniques in the analysis of food quality.

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

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 explores the extent to which conservation and development goals in Australia's southern temperate forests can be reconciled.

"e;Tomorrow's Table"e; 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.

Intensivtierhaltung und die Art und Weise der Nahrungsmittelproduktion sind in den westlichen Industrienationen angesichts ökologischer, klimatischer und tierethischer Zusammenhänge in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Fokus gesellschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit gerückt.

The importance of processing and packaging food items so that they are safe for the consumer cannot be underestimated.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Problematik der Modellierung der Ertragsbildung" verfügbar.

Using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies, Duncan argues that the entire project of developing the theory of political economy has been seriously sidetracked by industrialism.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades.

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.

Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world.

Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe.

There can be little doubt that there are truly colossal challenges associated with providing food, fibre and energy for an expanding world population without further accelerating already rapid rates of biodiversity loss and undermining the ecosystem processes on which we all depend.

Australian water policy and management are undergoing rapid and immense change in response to drought, technological advances, climate change and demographic and economic shifts.

The book gives a detailed description of the Nilgiri state district and traces the growth of tea cultivation in the district.

Understanding why agricultural policies of developed countries are what they are is critical on several accounts for the developed countries as a group and for individual countries.

Genetic research in some fundamental crops, together with the use of chemicals as pesticides and fertilizers, opened the way in the 1950s and 1960s to great changes in methodology in agriculture - with astonishing results in the tropics.

Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale.

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

Agriculture, Food and Food Security: Some Global Perspectives is an edited collection of scholarly work.

Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world.