Agribusiness and primary industries

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

Textile reinforced concrete (TRC) has emerged in recent years as an attractive new high performance cement-based composite.

The Concrete Solutions series of International Conferences on Concrete Repair began in 2003, with a conference held in St.

The chapters in this book present a snapshot of the state of knowledge of air pollution effects at the beginning of the 21st century.

This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

This book focuses on the various refinery products, product improvement processes, and solvent processes that are used in the refining industry and the processes used in product improvement to ensure products meet sales specifications.

This practical handbook of properties for soils and rock contains in a concise tabular format the key issues relevant to geotechnical investigations, assessments and designs in common practice.

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The book focuses on four broad topics related to trapping of agriculturally important tephritid fruit flies, namely i) lures and traps, ii) invasion biology and detection of infestations, iii) attract and kill systems, and iv) trade regulations and risk assessment.

Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

This highly successful book is now updated in line with the Amendment 2-2022 of 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations.

Cannabis Careers: The Insider's Guide to a Budding Industry is a comprehensive resource for individuals interested in entering the rapidly growing cannabis industry.

This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa.

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends?

Updating content from the author's 2001 book Coal Desulfurization, this new title focuses on CO2 sequestration and utilization.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book will provide emerging construction professionals with insights and information helpful for a successful career in the Australian construction industry.

The International Mining Forum is a meeting of scientists and professionals for exchanging new ideas and experiences, evaluate previously implemented solutions, and discuss fresh ideas that might change the mining industry's image.

This book explores the extent to which conservation and development goals in Australia's southern temperate forests can be reconciled.

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa.

"e;Tomorrow's Table"e; argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity.

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy.

Economic values are increasingly used in policy analysis and legal settings.

This book compiles topics on how financial inclusion, from either unidimensional or multidimensional perspectives, can be used as a viable policy tool to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) in rural/regional areas.

This text provides a process oriented discussion of the theory, methodology and philosophy of geologic and mine modelling using two commercial software packages: Techbase, a leader for mineral exploration and modelling bedded deposits; and Lynx, for modelling geology.

The second edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book maintains its coverage of a broad range of project management skills, from technical expertise to leadership, negotiation, team building and communication.

This edited volume features a collection of extended versions of 13 papers originally published in the proceedings of the 12th Asian Pacific Conference on Shell & Spatial Structures held in Penang, Malaysia in October 2018.

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens.

This book covers nearly all the aspects of duck rearing system with various duck genetic resources of India, their nutritional requirements, care management, diseases and prevention, slaughter, grading, packaging of meat, nutritional importance of meat & egg and integrated farming.

Intensivtierhaltung und die Art und Weise der Nahrungsmittelproduktion sind in den westlichen Industrienationen angesichts ökologischer, klimatischer und tierethischer Zusammenhänge in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Fokus gesellschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit gerückt.

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk.

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant additional materials and changes since its original publication immediately after the initial release of the NEC4 contracts.

The debate on health, nutrition and food security could not have arisen at a more opportune time.

Several international and European institutions have given increasing importance to sustainable approaches to our existing building stock and the role of built heritage in this process.

Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF) exempts use of dies and reduces cost for manufacturing complex parts.

Dealing with a wide range of non-metallic materials, this book opens up possibilities of lighter, more durable structures.

Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap- ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza- tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece.

This book is an attempt to comprehend and compile the history, present status, and future trends of the gender roles in agriculture.

Vegan Witchcraft is the first book to blend theories of animal rights, feminism, and modern witchcraft in pursuit of total liberation.

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.

The importance of processing and packaging food items so that they are safe for the consumer cannot be underestimated.