Agribusiness and primary industries

This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

Unmanned Aerial Systems in Agriculture: Eyes Above Fields bridges the gap between knowledge of concept and real-world use and operations of UASs in agri-production.

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements.

This title was first published in 2000.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

In petroleum refineries, although there are sets of standard operating procedures to operate the plants, unique problems often arise, which need to be tackled with engineering knowledge and experience without much loss of energy and time.

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

Professional services firms play a vital role in the social, environmental and economic well-being of any economy.

Celebrity chef couple Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos present a cookbook with stunning photographs featuring 100+ Italian-American recipes that incorporate Tuscan flair with classic American dishes inspired by their cooking show and Brooklyn caf.

Offers coverage of each important step in engineering cost control process, from project justification to life-cycle costs.

This book explores the nature of challenges facing agriculture, emphasizing the need to rethink how markets are organized in food production.

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

Around the fringe of Europe lies a green ring of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have, until recently, been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics, economy and culture.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting, held in Granada, Spain, 13-17 August 2009.

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.

This book reflects on Indonesia's recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism, and Indonesian carbon politics.

Food Security and Nutrition: Utilizing Undervalued Food Plants explores the potential of underutilized and indigenous food plants to enhance food and nutrition security amid global challenges, such as climate change, water scarcity, and population growth.

Since 1994, the European Conferences of Product and Process Modelling (www.

In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society.

Design of Welded Steel Structures: Principles and Practice provides a solid foundation of theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for the design of welded steel structures.

Many organisations live with hazards that have the potential to cause disaster.

The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines.

Testing of materials and manufactured items is a key element in the process from standard specifications though control and verification during manufacture to trade in actual products.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

Computer Aided Highway Engineering is aimed at developing professional knowledge in the field of highway engineering with adequate skills in planning, designing and implementation of the highway project with an exposure of hands on training of computer software in designing the worldwide road infrastructures.

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As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations.

The concept of Rainbow Revolution is an integrated development of crop cultivation, horticulture, forestry, fishery, poultry, animal husbandry, and food processing industry.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation.

Die Insektenzucht bietet enorme Chancen für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und neue Einkommensquellen.

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

Agricultural growth, bolstered by technological advancements and international trade, enhances economic stability and food security in many developing nations in one hand, and reduces income disparities between developed and less developed nations on the other.

Concrete structures can be designed for durability by applying the principles and procedures of reliability theory combined with traditional structural design.

Discovery of Oyu Tolgoi: A Case Study of Mineral and Geological Exploration provides a detailed account of the exploration for copper deposits that took place in Mongolia in the mid-1990s, an exploration that was first started by Magma Copper and then continued by BHP Billiton World Exploration Inc.

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

This book is quite simply about contract administration using the JCT contracts.

Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely.

The principal aim of this book is to improve the practice of surveying traditionally constructed brickwork.

This title was first published in 2003.

This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis.

The CAP has traditionally been at the core of the European Communities and even now consumes half of the European Union's budget.

This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures "e;in"e; and "e;for"e; agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher.

This book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the socio-economic benefits that could result from successfully delivering it.

Practical Petroleum Geochemistry for Exploration and Production, Second Edition provides readers with a single reference that addresses the principle concepts and applications of petroleum geochemistry used in finding, evaluating, and producing petroleum deposits.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threatened extinction for many species.

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 Vol.