Agribusiness and primary industries

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

The Flora is prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in close collaboration with East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University.

Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule, party allegiances, crony patronage, and divergent visions about nature.

This book presents machine learning approaches to identify the most important predictors of crucial variables for dealing with the challenges of managing production units and designing agriculture policies.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

This book is designed to introduce the basics of different aspects of the biology of reproduction in a concise and coherent manner.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

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

Farm finance is a topic that is not often discussed but is vital to the success and longevity of these unique family businesses.

The demand for medicinal plants is increasing, and this leads to unscrupulous collection from the wild and adulteration of supplies.

This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey.

All students, practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability.

The water hyacinth is a disruptive factor in aquatic ecosystem management and ecosystem services, and causes problems in fisheries, transportation waterways, irrigation, hydropower generation, and water resources.

This book presents the most recent information on the molecular genetics of marine organisms.

Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Localising Oil and Gas Operations, Volume Four in the Getenergy series will set out the case for localising the oil and gas operations within hydrocarbon-producing countries.

This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field.

This book is a comprehensive text on plant tissue culture, with its past, present, and future prospects and techniques discussed in detail.

Guide to Plant Single-Cell Technology: Functional Genomics and Crop Improvement summarizes the current status of single-cell technology in plants involving food and energy crops.

Our Chance to Right the Food System:Every five to seven years, Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill.

Shotcrete: Materials, Performance and Use is a comprehensive textbook covering the current state-of-the-art shotcrete technology.

Rock Slope Engineering covers the investigation, design, excavation and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes, primarily for civil engineering applications.

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain.

This book explores the common approaches to upgrade heavy and extra-heavy crude oils by means of catalytic hydrotreating, emphasizing hydrogen addition technology as well as carbon rejection alternatives.

Cultivated in an increasing number of countries, vanilla is a universally appreciated flavor that is consumed worldwide.

Marine environment can be affected by several pollutants such as the presence of elements and their chemical species, pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles and other emerging contaminants.

As the shortcomings of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more apparent, a renaissance of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring.

The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820.

Plants and microbes have co-evolved and interacted with each other in nature.

Algae for Food: Cultivation, Processing and Nutritional BenefitsAlgae are a primitive, living photosynthetic form and they are the oldest living organism.

Oil recovery efficiency can be increased by applying the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes, which are based on the improvement of mobility ratio, reduction of interfacial tension between oil and water, wettability alteration, reduction of oil viscosity, formation of oil banks, and so forth.

In light of the recent dynamics of the recession sparked by the global economic crisis, a roadmap for the growth and recovery of national economies is urgently needed.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

This substantially updated new edition reflects the growing recognition that large areas of forests are degraded globally.

Dogs do not demonstrate discomfort or pain in a way that can be easily translated by us humans, so we often miss that they are physically struggling.

George Perkins Marsh (18011882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms.

Our post-industrialised global economy has achieved spectacular success and pushed back poverty to an extent previously thought impossible.

This conference proceedings volume presents advanced methods in time series estimation models that are applicable various areas of applied economic research such as international economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance economics and agricultural economics.

The precipitation and deposition of solids are a major challenge in the production of oil and gas.

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers.

Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic picture of the hyena and its interactions with people.

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Perspectives and Applications integrates advances in hydrologic science and innovative remote sensing technologies.

This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining farmer producer organisations (FPOs).

Cellular Agriculture: Technology, Society, Sustainability and Science provides a state-of-the-art review of cellular agriculture technologies.

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster.

This book focuses on the relationship between buildings and our health and wellbeing, and by extension our quality of life.