Agribusiness and primary industries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers-women-lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive.

For the first 150 years of their existence, "e;natural foods"e; were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book elaborates on the modern experience and prospects and the development of recommendations for sustainable development of the agrarian economy based on digital technologies and smart innovations for the provision of food security.

The world's most experienced scientists and professionals working on cooling towers gathered at the 5th International Symposium on Natural Draught Cooling Towers to discuss the latest developments in this area and exchange knowledge and experiences.

This text explores the spatial variation and seasonality in growth and reproduction of "e;Enhalus acoroides"e; (L.

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

Risk and uncertainty are inescapable factors in agriculture which require careful management.

Controlled Atmosphere Storage of Grains emerged from the International Symposium on Controlled Atmosphere Storage of Grains held at Castelgandolfo, near Rome, Italy, from May 12-15, 1980.

The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East.

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.

Major advances, both in modeling methods and in the computing power required to make those methods viable, have led to major breakthroughs in our ability to model the performance and vulnerability of explosives and propellants.

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Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers.

Infrastructure is vital to a resilient society and infrastructure investment is therefore critical to the vibrant functioning of societies.

This text includes a description of 104 species with 195 photographs.

The Soviet Union Looks Ahead (1930) is the official statement of the five-year economic plan put forward by the Soviet Union, a plan involving the radical reconstruction of the entire production system of Russia.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City.

This volume compiles information on different aspects of diseases of oil crops and their management.

Biology of Marine Birds provides the only complete summary of information about marine birds ever published.

This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs.

Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation.

Carbon Dots in Agricultural Systems integrates and crystallizes the emerging knowledge and application strategies of carbon dots as a powerful tool in agriculture systems.

Activity in the gold markets has focused investors' attention on this unique commodity.

The application of fracture mechanics to cementitious materials allows the investigation of many important factors relating to the durability of these materials.

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Comparative Physiology and Evolution of the Autonomic Nervous System, the fourth volume in the Autonomic Nervous System series, is an up-to-date account of the comparative physiology and functional anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, with an emphasis on non-mammalian vertebrates.

The content of this book provides information on advanced knowledge in the sphere of importance and scope of horticulture in India, horticulture based integrated farming systems, integration of livestock in horticulture based farming systems, emerging issues, natural resource management, disease and pest management, organic farming and certification, post-harvest measures and value addition in arid fruits and vegetables, marketing aspects, status and export promotion measures and procedures.

The world's most experienced scientists and professionals working on cooling towers gathered at the 5th International Symposium on Natural Draught Cooling Towers to discuss the latest developments in this area and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Future farm managers need a range of tools and knowledge to run successful businesses, and this accessible textbook provides the required foundations from economics and management, applied to the farm context.

This book, chock full of color illustrations, addresses the main postharvest physiological disorders studied in fruits and vegetables.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of a highly innovative method of natural wastewater treatment using advanced in-groundbioreactors called Eco-Engineered Bioreactors (EEBs), and traces their evolution from the earliest aerated gravel bed versions once known as Engineered Wetlands (EWs) and now known as BREW Bioreactors (BBRs) all the way to today's wide slate of aerobic and anaerobic varieties.

Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years.

Energy Modeling and Computations in the Building Envelope instills a deeper understanding of the energy interactions between buildings and the environment, based on the analysis of transfer processes operating in the building envelope components at the microscopic level.

Discussing rock breakage by blasting, this text includes: results of complex investigations into the rock breakage mechanism and the patterns of crack formation during a blast; problems of modelling; and principal equations linking the model with prototype and similarity criteria.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 32nd Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on December 1-2, 2022, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book presents a concise yet detailed analysis of China's agricultural economy and food security in historical perspective.

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities.

This book discusses the constraints on biological control ranging from the difficulty of convincing growers that they should infest their crops artificially to the effect of cultural techniques.

La apasionante historia de la extracción y el control económico de los grandes minerales, desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días: oro, cobre, hierro, litio, tierras raras, etc.

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry.

Hydraulic Fracturing effectively busts the myths associated with hydraulic fracturing.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator.

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia-one of the worst urban slums in North America-who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood.

This book summarizes nanotechnology-based agricultural research for crop productivity and the management of various plant pathogens.