Agribusiness and primary industries

This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean.

This textbook discusses environmental and natural resource economics.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities.

This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector.

This book presents an international review of the modern geo-economy and a scientific take on the geo-economy of the future.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.

This book explores different aspects of entrepreneurship from both an academic and a commercial point of view.

This book offers an assessment of new opportunities available for the agricultural sector and provides technical assistance to the Greek authorities with regards to its rural development and fishery sector.

The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity.

In the present economic, political, societal and environmental landscape, which is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of challenges and issues that demand immediate and urgent responses is more intense than ever.

This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe.

This book provides exclusive information on how agribusinesses could act as the springboard for inclusive economic growth critical for socioeconomic transformation of Africa.

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources.

Today, nutrition is mainly discussed under nutritional, medical-health or ideological aspects (e.

This book analyzes the issue of food insecurity in Europe.

Erster und bisher einziger steuerlicher Ratgeber für die aktuell etwa 2 Millionen Eigentümer von Privatwäldern in Deutschland: Privater Waldbesitz erfreut sich immer größerer Beliebtheit; das Thema Wald ist derzeit stark im Fokus.

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

This book seeks to understand the simultaneous economic and political contributors to China's changing agricultural protection levels and the central government's choice of policy instruments to tax or assist farmers.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.

The Book of Filial Duty - Confucius - Part of the Wisdom of the East series.

This is the first book to focus on farm and rural community management in less favored areas of Japan.

This book of case studies is designed to provide useful information for instructional purposes and for those interested in the management of Asian agribusiness.

The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of 'development', is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving.

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges.

This book is an important contribution to our understanding of food in China through an ethnographic case study of an alternative food movement in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book provides different facets of India's agro and food processing industry in both organised and unorganised segments.

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.

This book consists of the major findings of the series projects on smart rice farming in Japan, headed by President of the Society of Agricultural Informatics.

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

This pivot focuses on "e;the concept of edification"e; in a bid to systematically expound its connotative structure and logical evolution.

This book is a collection of fifteen contributions that undertake a detailed analysis of seven broad dimensions of India's economy and society.

The Second Edition of The Future of Food Business: The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts is an updated collection of thoughtful articles previously published in leading newspapers around the world based on the author's practical life as international project leader, consultant, businessman, academic professor and world traveller.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

To meet the rising demand for scientific evidence in the context of rural tourism research, this book explores tourism and tourism-related diversification activities performed by farming households and entrepreneurs in rural communities.