Agribusiness and primary industries

Originally published in 1991, this book includes a detailed case study of Kenya's co-operative movement - one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.

Originally published in 1991, this book includes a detailed case study of Kenya's co-operative movement - one of the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.

Originally published in 1959, this post-war study of farm rents marshals the evidence from a nation-wide survey.

Originally published in 1984, this book provides an introduction to the history of agriculture in Western Europe, states the case for government intervention and analyses the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the late 20th Century.

Originally published in 1971, this book resulted from a 2-year study of the implications of the Common Market agricultural policy in relation to agricultural marketing in Britain.

Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world.

Until about 1970, Western Europe was regarded as the great food-importing region of the world.

This comprehensive guide to agricultural robots is the ideal companion for any student or professional engineer looking to understand and develop autonomous vehicles to use on the modern farm.

Nanotechnology has the potential to impact on food processing significantly.

The successful employment of food packaging can greatly improve product safety and quality, making the area a key concern to the food processing industry.

Petroleum engineers search through endless sources to understand oil and gas chemicals, identify root cause of theproblems, and discover solutions while operations are becoming more unconventional and driving toward more sustainablepractice.

Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach introduces a new concept in the handling of fresh fruits and vegetable.

Introduction to Enhanced Recovery Methods for Heavy Oil and Tar Sands, Second Edition, explores the importance of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and how it has grown in recent years thanks to the increased need to locate unconventional resources such as heavy oil and shale.

Millets and Pseudo Cereals is the first comprehensive resource to focus on the potential crop improvements through genetic enhancements.

Biocontrol and Secondary Metabolites: Applications and Immunization for Plant Growth and Protection covers established and updated research on emerging trends in plant defense signaling in, and during, stress phases.

In the 1960s, the farming industry of Britain had been transformed and modernised to the point where output per person was the highest in Europe.

Olive Mill Waste: Recent Advances for Sustainable Management addresses today's most relevant topics in olive oil industry sustainable management.

A Practical Guide to Piping and Valves for the Oil and Gas Industry covers how to select, test and maintain the right oil and gas valve.

Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development is a comprehensive source for developing sustainable farming systems.

Petrophysics: Theory and Practice of Measuring Reservoir Rock and Fluid Transport Properties, Fourth Edition provides users with tactics that will help them understand rock-fluid interaction, a fundamental step that is necessary for all reservoir engineers to grasp in order to achieve the highest reservoir performance.

Practical Wellbore Hydraulics and Hole Cleaning presents a single resource with explanations, equations and descriptions that are important for wellbore hydraulics, including hole cleaning.

A practical, illustrated guide to thermal scienceA practical, illustrated guide to thermal science Written by a subject-matter expert with many years of academic and industrial experience, Thermal Science provides detailed yet concise coverage of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.

Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging provides a much-needed and complete analytical method for electromagnetic well logging technology.

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.

Cereal Grains: Assessing and Managing Quality, Second Edition, provides a timely update to this key reference work.

Peanuts: Processing Technology and Product Development provides an overall review of the latest peanut and peanut-related research development worldwide, including not only peanut production and processing progress, but also peanut-related product (oil, protein) production technologies, and by-products utilization technologies (peptides, polyphenol, polysaccharide, and dietary fiber).

Feeding our globally expanding population is one of the most critical challenges of our time and improving food and agricultural production efficiencies is a key factor in solving this problem.

The demand for energy consumption is increasing rapidly.

Conifers--pine, fir, and spruce trees--are dominant species in forests around the world.

Microbehavioral Econometric Methods and Environmental Studies uses microeconometric methods to model the behavior of individuals, then demonstrates the modelling approaches in addressing policy needs.

Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems.

Hybrid Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Smart Waterflooding explains the latest technologies used in the integration of low-salinity and smart waterflooding in other EOR processes to reduce risks attributed to numerous difficulties in existing technologies, also introducing the synergetic effects.

Unconventional Petroleum Geology, Second Edition presents the latest research results of global conventional and unconventional petroleum exploration and production.

A $100 trillion global market (with little competition) exists for products & services that revitalize cities and natural resources, with an estimated activity of $2 trillion per yearThis is the first book to show community and national leaders how to achieve rapid, sustainable renewalCunningham's groundbreaking first book, The Restoration Economy (Berrett Koehler Publishers, 2002), now in its third printing, was hailed by government, business, and academic leaders worldwideThe theme of ReWealth!

Sorghum Biochemistry: An Industrial Perspective explores the many uses for sorghum in industry and biofuels.

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.

Palm Oil: Production, Processing, Characterization, and Uses serves as a rich source of information on the production, processing, characterization and utilization of palm oil and its components.

Consideration of the interactions between decisions made at one point in the supply chain and its effects on the subsequent stages is the core concept of a systems approach.

Gas Well Deliquification, Third Edition, expands upon previous experiences and applies today's more applicable options and technology.

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems.

The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US.

China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s.

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity-for good or ill-to the rest of the world.

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets.

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.

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity.

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution.

Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes.