Agribusiness and primary industries

Methods and Applications in Petroleum and Mineral Exploration and Engineering Geology is an interdisciplinary book bridging the fields of earth sciences and engineering.

Interdisciplinary and Advanced Topics in Science and Engineering, Volume 3: Separation of Flow presents the problem of the separation of fluid flow.

Cambodia has a potential advantage in agricultural production due to significant amounts of fertile land and high levels of agricultural employment, but rice production and commercialization remain well below potential.

Logistics plays an important role in agricultural production and supply-chain management, ultimately enhancing food safety and quality.

The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods, ice storms, etc.

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.

The wit and weizen of wheat beers.

Principles of Brewing Science is an indispensable reference which applies the practical language of science to the art of brewing.

Ancient brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe.

Standards of Brewing covers an essential topic for today's brewers: consistent production of quality product.

Hard seltzer is a booming category in the world of lifestyle beverages and many craft brewers are lending their artisanal skills to this refreshing beverage.

The Brewers Association's Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery distills the wisdom of craft brewing veteran Dick Cantwell into one text that delivers essential industry insight.

Fermented foods are experiencing a resurgence in popularity due to their bold flavors and purported health benefits.

Your brewery is much more than just a small businessit's the fulfillment of your dream to share a love for quality craft beer and beverages.

Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) is both a system and a state of mind.

Traditionally women in agriculture are confined to activities mainly Weeders, Preparation of agriculture fields, Application of green & farmyard manure, Crop management, Planting, Harvesting and Post-harvest operations.

In Scotch Ale, Greg Noonan presents keen insights into yeast, hops, malts, water and brewing conditions that will help you achieve a superior batch of Scotch ale.

Eric Warner, one of Americas foremost brewers of German beer, unravels the story behind Klsch and shares tried-and-true recipes and brewing techniques.

Three-time Ninkasi Award winner, Gordon Strong has been a towering presence in the homebrewing community for many years.

In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernndez have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to think like a quail.

The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century.

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.

The second edition of The Stability and Shelf-life of Food is a fully revised and thoroughly updated edition of this highly-successful book.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi's main industry, tobacco.

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

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

Agriculture represents one of America's critical infrastructures.

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution.

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa.

This book is an analysis of energy and food subsidies in the MENA region between 2010 and 2014.

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 book describes the transformation of the agricultural sector in East-Central European countries after the collapse of the socialist system at the beginning of the 20th century.

This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities.

This book examines the factors involved in consumer responses to food produced in regions near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant following the March 2011 Eastern Japanese earthquake, and assesses how responses to reports on food safety and risk of radiation contamination shaped consumer perceptions of and subsequent behavior toward products from the Fukushima prefecture.

This book offers a snappy but comprehensive investigation of how the resource needs of today could become the resource conflicts of tomorrow.

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the agri-sector for rice, sugarcane, and cassava in Thailand and the food sector.

This book highlights the processing, characterization and applications of various green composites.

The book presents a comprehensive study of the impact of policy reforms on output, employment, and productivity growth across sectors of India since 1991.

This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretical rigor of quantitative methods for modeling agricultural production, market dynamics, and natural resource management.

Advances in Ultra-low Emission Control Technologies for Coal-Fired Power Plants discusses the emissions standards of dust, SO2, NOx and mercury pollution, also presenting the key technologies available to control emissions in coal-fired power plants.

This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India.

The book shows how class relations develop and is a consequence of capitalist development of the rural non-agricultural/non-farm sector (RNFS)---seen as the dialectical relation between the forces and relations of production---as mediated by the state, which produces uneven social and spatial outcomes.

The conventional and modern well test interpretation methods are an important tool in the petroleum engineer's toolkit.

Sugarcane Biorefinery, Technology and Perspectives provides the reader with a current view of the global scenario of sugarcane biorefinery, launching a new expectation on this important crop from a chemical, energy and sustainability point-of-view.

Horticultural Plant Breeding is a complete and comprehensive resource for the development of new cultivars or clones of horticultural crops.

The Science of Grapevines, Third Edition reflects the latest insights into cultivar relationships, vascular transport, hormone action, and stress responses of grapevines.

Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food and Agriculture reviews, reassesses and reimagines the current food and agriculture system and the narrow paradigm in which it operates.