Agribusiness and primary industries

This book serves as an essential guide for understanding the full potential of this remarkable plant.

An elegant demolition of the supermarket miracle, this book charts the impact that supermarkets have had on every aspect of our lives and culture.

Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource.

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

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Coastal farming and ocean ranching of marine fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and seaweed are a major and growing industry worldwide.

The environment is increasingly recognized as having a powerful effect on human and ecological health, as well as on specific types of human morbidity, mortality, and disability.

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

The neem tree, one of the most promising of all plants, may eventually benefit every person on the planet.

How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations?

In this volume, the National Research Council examines problems arising throughout government-owned, contractor-operated facilities in the United States engaged in activities to build nuclear weapons.

Interest is growing in sustainable agriculture, which involves the use of productive and profitable farming practices that take advantage of natural biological processes to conserve resources, reduce inputs, protect the environment, and enhance public health.

Microlivestock is a term coined for species that are inherently small as well as for breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs that are less than about half the size of the most common breeds.

This book presents the results of a meeting held by the Board on Science and Technology for International Development.

Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes.

This volume explores how the scientific tools of ecology can be used more effectively in dealing with a variety of complex environmental problems.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

This book provides new perceptions of rural community development by considering the relationships between communities and individuals.

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This book focuses on innovations in agriculture that is aimed at eliminating global hunger and poverty and promoting sustainable development of global agriculture.

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

The environment is increasingly recognized as having a powerful effect on human and ecological health, as well as on specific types of human morbidity, mortality, and disability.

This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning in the 19th century, even before the Western world recognized this "e;oilseed.

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Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes.

This book contains up-to-date studies on the economics of sustainable energy in agriculture.

The advent of new biotechnologies implies significant changes in the world, both biologically and industrially.

How the debate over genetically modified crops in India is transforming science and politics Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world.

An unexplored, fascinating history of nineteenth-century agrarian life, told through the engaging lens of three families central to the peppermint oil industry This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural people of their time.

A translation of a key commentary on perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China This book is a translation of a key commentary on the Book of Changes, or Yijing (I Ching), perhaps the most broadly influential text of classical China.

This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.

An exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realities In recent years, the popularity of organically grown produce has exploded.

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This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between the ontological and the phenomenal.

What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union’s ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system?

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.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas.

Among the Wola people of Papua New Guinea, our category economy is problematic.

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years.

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe.

How orange juice became a North American breakfast staple and what "e;100% pure orange juice"e; means todayClose to three quarters of U.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty.

The “Hikayat Banjar,” a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate.

This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy.

During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity.

Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker.

The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country's social and economic landscape.

Does living a stress-filled life lead to elevated blood pressure?