Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries

Plant intellectual property law is a complex proposition which stands apart from other intellectual property endeavours, and this book seeks to elucidate on the key issues involved.

"e;The Hog - Breeds of the British Isles"e; is an essay by David Low, published as part of the "e;Domesticated Animals of the British Islands"e; series.

Our nation faces daunting challenges to its food and fiber system and to the condition of our natural resources in the coming decades.

When relations are facilitated by communication technologies such as e-business, food supply networks can improve efficiency, flexibility and effectiveness.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the role of cotton in the economy and cotton production around the world This book offers a complete look at the world s largest fiber crop: cotton.

Sustainable development has been gaining momentum in the modern world, and the use of nanomaterials in various applications is expanding.

This new volume presents some of the latest research trends and areas of improvement to benefit the floriculture industry and to understand its future directions and prospects.

Agribusiness becomes a most important sector of developing countries due global opportunities of trade.

In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar.

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies.

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development.

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

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.

A collection of articles which provide examples that demonstrate the application of dynamic programming to a wide variety of decision problems in agriculture.

Die miesen Tricks der Industrie durchschauenWas essen wir da eigentlich?

The Confederation Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers.

The existence and competition of trees and shrubs to sustain and put forth growth under varied environmental conditions is dependent on the interactions that occur between the plant metabolic processes and the prevailing environmental conditions.

First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in an attempt to meet these problems.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire.

The reuse of wastewater in irrigation is being practiced only recently to solve water scarcity problems in agriculture.

This title was first published in 2003.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World-not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

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Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world s prime resource.

Named #1 of 15 Best New Biotechnology Books to Read in 2021 by BookAuthority.

Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation.

THE agricultural implement industry in Canada is at once a very well-known and a very little-known industry.

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.

Le lait est une matière complexe tant par sa composition que par l’organisation de ses constituants.

The potential users of GIS for health related analysis and applications are legion.

This new volume emphasizes the drastic quantitative and qualitative transformation of our surrounding environment and looks at bioresource management and the tools needed to manageenvironmental stresses.

*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.

This valuable book is a comprehensive volume on mangroves, with information accessible to both botany professionals and students.

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

This vintage book contains a detailed handbook of farm machinery, with chapters on everything from general maintenance to the fundamental principles of mechanisation.

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies.

This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the state, and the environment.

Seaweeds are known for their rich bioactive compounds, which promote health in human beings and are good for the ecosystem as well.

Focusing on the importance of functional foods and their secondary metabolites for human health, this volume presents new insights with scientific evidence on the use of functional foods in the treatment of certain diseases.

In food product development, as in all new product development, time is money.

Embark on a transformative journey through uncharted realms of research and industry with the first book of the "e;Cannabis Innovations"e; series.

Economics of Food Processing in the United States aims to provide an economic overview of the food processing industries in the United States; to explore the firm-level implications of social, economic, technological, and institutional forces for selected food processing industries; and to uncover some of the implications for consumers, raw product producers, and the national economy of the major trends observed in food industries.

From the bestselling author of The Market Gardener - key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scaleMicrofarms is a guide to setting up and running profitable small-scale vegetable farms using organic, low-tech, and highly intensive production methods grounded in ecological principles.

When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization.