Agribusiness and primary industries

Lentils: Potential Resources for Enhancing Genetic Gains describes the evolutionary aspects and agronomic potential of this important pulse with emphasis placed on wide hybridization, including molecular aspects and future breeding strategies.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of India's pulses sector in terms of production, prices, markets, and trade.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.

A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection.

This book captures how industrial crops can be used in conventional agriculture and greener biopharming for pharmaceutical industries.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.

In the modern era, China's rural credit landscape is transforming at a dizzying rate, but, in terms of financial development, these changes represent a second attempt in the past 100 years to reform China's credit institutions and provide credit access to farmers.

The history of mining is replete with controversy of which much is related to environmental damage and consequent community outrage.

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.

In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable.

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature.

With chapters written by scientists from respected institutes and universities around the world, this book looks at the bioprospecting of medicinal plants for potential health uses and at the pharmacognosy of a selection of medicinal and aromatic plants.

This book focuses on the menace of metal pollution and its impact on plants, particularly food grains, pulse and vegetable plants covering morphological, anatomical, physiological and biochemical aspects.

The art of creating and consuming bourbon is exploding, Carla Carlton's Barrel Strength Bourbon is a must read for all bourbon aficionados.

Plant Ecology & Conservation is an introduction to the world of plant ecology.

There are many UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Germany.

During the past decade, Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) has attracted considerable attention because of its vital role in plant biotechnology.

This collection of essays, first published in 1986, provides an exciting introduction to modern German agrarian history.

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health.

The term "e;food security"e; does not immediately signal research done in humanities disciplines.

A manual of constructional details which shows how successful results in acoustic design can be achieved by correct use of building materials, products and components.

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature.

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This book analyses several aspects of small farm production systems that increase efficiency when the farmer's production resources are limited.

2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardBefore Forks, a small town on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyers Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed Logging Capital of the World and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests.

Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed.

*From one of the Vogue Business 100 Innovators List - 2023"e;[T]his wonderful project and book, executed with great charm and creativity, is an important message.

This new volume is a rich and comprehensive resource of the basic information and latest developments and research efforts on tropical and subtropical fruits.

This book highlights topics ranging from green chemistry and engineering to bioremediation, smart technologies, and sustainable business practices.

Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

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

Conceived with the aim of sorting fact from fiction over genetically modified (GM) crops, this book brings together the knowledge of 30 specialists in the field of transgenic plants.

Management process groups along with the processes in the knowledge areas having to do with the principles and concepts used in the development of major construction activities are very important in the overall construction management process.

With contributions from internationally recognized experts, Food Safety of Proteins in Agricultural Biotechnology comprehensively addresses how toxicology testing of proteins should be accomplished and how protein safety assessments should be carried out.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

The debate on health, nutrition and food security could not have arisen at a more opportune time.

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT).

Explicitly reintroducing the idea of modeling to the analysis of structures, Analytical Estimates of Structural Behavior presents an integrated approach to modeling and estimating the behavior of structures.

This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives.

Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level.

This book is a state-of-the-art report which documents current knowledge on the properties of fly ash in concrete and the use of fly ash in construction.

Mandatory Competencies: APC Essentials is the first book in a new series designed to cover what any RICS APC (and AssocRICS) candidate or qualified surveyor needs to know about the mandatory competencies.

Moisture dynamics in brick, stone and concrete has a controlling influence on the durability and performance of the built environment.

Tailings and Mine Waste 10 contains the contributions from the 14th annual Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, held by Colorado State University of Fort Collins, Colorado in conjunction with the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia.

A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa.

This comprehensive book brings together experts from both the marine science and pharmacy disciplines to relay important aspects on the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical values of 175 species of bony and cartilaginous fishes as well as the uses of fish processing byproducts and wastes.

Oxidative Stability and Shelf Life of Foods Containing Oils and Fats focuses on food stability and shelf life, both important factors in the improvement and development of food products.