Agribusiness and primary industries

A collection of the most advanced and authoritative agricultural-economic research in the face of increasing water scarcity.

The application of quality tools and techniques in construction projects has a great influence on the cost-effectiveness results of construction projects and achieving successful project performance.

Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them.

Geology and Natural Resources of Nigeria is an up to date and comprehensive overview of the geological framework of the continental crust of Nigeria, its evolution, and the natural resources it holds.

This book chronicles the personal journey of pioneering female winery owner Susan Sokol Blosser, from deciding on a whim to grow wine grapes in the early 1970s, to the trials and tribulations of starting her family-owned winery, Sokol Blosser, in the then little-known Willamette Valley, to the transfer of leadership from the first generation to the present.

Where does all the food in the world come from?

These days, food comes out frozen.

This is for all the future veterinarians, agriculturists or just plain animal-lovers of the world.

Let's pretend to be farmers for a day!

With the plethora of unhealthy food options, how do you encourage your child to eat healthy?

Learn to appreciate healthy food with the help of this wonderful educational resource.

Do you like eating at a fast food restaurant?

For a child who has lived in the city for most his/her life, this book will be a great eye opener.

A Ranching Saga tells the story of father and son pioneer ranchers in the Southwest.

Agriculture is a topic not normally discussed in kindergarten or preschool.

In the day and age of instant gratification, it is important that your child learn the value of patience and hard work through agriculture.

Where does food come from?

Don't wait until your kids get to school before they learn about who Confucius is.

Have you ever been to a farm?

Confucius was the most popular philosopher in Ancient China.

Notice that in schools, subjects like math and science are at the top of the list.

Peanuts: Genetics, Processing, and Utilization (Oilseed Monograph) presents innovations in crop productivity and processing technologies that help ensure global food security and high quality peanut products.

This book is an introduction to the management of food and beverage operations within a luxury hotel environment.

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures.

Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster.

Concise, problem-oriented, and accessibly designed, the Pocket Handbook focuses on the essentials of medicine and surgery of the dog and cat.

Cotton Trading Manual (CTM) is the first work to provide a comprehensive reference source to the conduct of the complex international cotton market.

Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies.

Although originally published in 1928, many of the issues discussed in this book remain pertinent today: in unstable markets grappling with labour shortages, how to pay the producers of food a fair price, at a price the consumer can afford, whilst maximising efficiency and minimising waste.

The modification of passive films is a promising method of improving the corrosion resistance of metallic materials.

Navigate the world's belief systems with this faith-filled resource!

Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them.

This is the true story of how you get your milk.

Originally published in 1988, this book was written at a time of excessive budgetary costs, huge surpluses and damaging trade conflicts.

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

This book provides an incisive and economic assessment of the global warming adaptation policy and programs carved out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), by relying on the four scientific traditions that have been advanced on the economics of adaptation to climate change in agricultural and natural resource enterprises.

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 explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects.

This book assesses the effectiveness of changes in watershed interventions in one of the most fragile resource regions of India.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

This volume summarizes and updates information about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)/antibiotic resistant genes (ARG) production, including their entry routes in soil, air, water and sediment, their use in hospital and associated waste, global and temporal trends in use and spread of antibiotics, AMR and ARG.

The agricultural sector of medicinal (including plant stimulants) and aromatic plants is characterized by an enormous number and diversity of species.

This book is based on the outcomes of a Turkish-Japanese bilateral project dealing with the impacts of climate change on basin agro-ecosystems.

Unarguably, preserving the ecosystem, securing sustainability and understanding the dynamics of agro-food chains have all become vital policy objectives with several interlinked dimensions.

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933.

This Palgrave Pivot employs the concept of open source agriculture as a new social movement, which not only advocates a specific agenda but also creates technological products under a unique technology development model.

Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization.

This book discusses the role of food and the human nutrition-behavior interface.

The book provides current knowledge and research on the presence and effects of anticancer drug residues in the aqueous environment and covers all relevant aspects of the presence of these residues in wastewaters and natural aquatic systems, where numerous analogies between their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in humans and their effects in the environment can be drawn.