Agribusiness and primary industries

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention.

This book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography - in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies.

Ecological and Economic Entomology is a comprehensive advanced text covering all aspects of the role of insects in natural ecosystems and their impacts on human activity.

Discusses the role of endophytes in food security, forestry and health.

As the first of its kind, this book presents a balanced view of the effect of condensed silica fume on the physical, chemical, mechanical, and durability aspects with respect to cement paste, mortar, and concrete.

This concise yet thorough guide to diagnostic radiology for the equine practitioner reflects over 35 years of clinical experience by the author.

Plant diseases cause yield loss in crop production, poor quality of produce, and great economic losses as well.

Earthen architecture is widespread all over the world and demonstrates a significant richness of varieties both in application and in materials used.

Vertebrate invasive species are important ecologically, socially, and scientifically throughout much of the globe.

Coccidiosis is one of the most important diseases of livestock, particularly poultry, with billions of dollars spent on prevention worldwide.

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change.

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union.

The last two decades have seen enormous advances in the technology and application of building sealants.

Concrete repair continues to be a subject of major interest to engineers and technologists worldwide.

New analysis and empirical evidence on several topics such as the determinants of shape and nature of the vertical relationships in the food system, the determinants of vertical co-ordination and competition, types and mechanisms of co-ordination as well as the consequences for competitiveness, consumer welfare and policy implications are provided.

A leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth.

The European economy is still in recession, even though there are some weak indications of stabilization.

As a review of the status of biogeography in the West Indies in the 1980s, the first edition of Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, Present, and Future provided a synthesis of our current knowledge of the systematics and distribution of major plant and animal groups in the Caribbean basin.

This book, Extremophiles: General and Plant Biomass Based Biorefinery, explores the potential of extremophiles in industries and biomass based biorefinery.

This is a book about how to manage the processes involved in a construction project towards a sustainable and regenerative endproduct.

Our understanding of the physiological function of insect essential lipids has long been flawed by major uncertainties.

This book focuses on the impact of monetary policy and food price volatility and inflation in emerging and developing economies.

Originally published in 1992.

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba.

Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global food crisis of enormous proportions is brewing.

Proceedings of RILEM TC-PRC third conference on this subject.

The book provides a guide to rock engineers and engineering geologists as to how to perform laboratory tests and how to use the existing data for solving practical rock engineering design and operating problems.

Nanotechnology is moving out of its comfort zone of scientific discourse.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

Challenge yourself to learn dozens of embroidery stitches and use them to create 30 simple projects that are ready to display.

FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America.

The food system has changed considerably in the last century.

Benjamin Kidd (1858-1916), well-known for his ground-breaking application of social Darwinism in his premier work Social Evolution (1894), was a sociologist and a keen observer of nature.

The special properties of calcium aluminate cements make them of value in the construction, mining and refractory industries.

This book is a direct outgrowth of classes that the authors gave over a period of three decades to a university audience taking a Mineral Beneficiation course as a major that included coal processing and utilization.

Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas.

Originally published in 1967, this book discusses the attempt in ancient and modern times to exploit one of the great mineral areas of Europe.

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom.

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwle, and Mbomam--in the Lobk forest region of southeastern Cameroon.

Economic Effects of Natural Disasters explores how natural disasters affect sources of economic growth and development.

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem.

This book of cases, mostly of small to medium organizations, from west Africa, Thailand and India offers cases suitable for training of practicing managers of small and medium agricultural enterprises and public sector professionals engaged in agricultural development.

This book will include a review of the research dealing with the drivers and consequences of Namibia's corporate governance.

In this book two distinguished metallurgists have traced the role of metallurgical technology in the creation of the scientific revolution and the formation of the Royal Society.

Suppose you were designing a marine mammal.

This enlightening new volume details over 200 species of bioluminescent marine fishes along with their biotechnological and therapeutic applications.

This book focuses on the most recent environmentally-friendly technologies, such as physical treatments of heat and modified atmospheric packaging, developed to reduce spoilage and maintain the quality of produce.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

Aquaculture and the Environment Second Edition T.