Agribusiness and primary industries

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

Knowledge of Africa's complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security.

Brewers of all sizes should uphold the value of safety alongside their edgy brands and creative and carefully crafted beers and other beverages.

This book highlights the production of green composites from various sustainable raw materials.

The primary aim of this book is to put together an understanding of the appropriate principles of ensuring performance and sustainability of concrete.

Algal World has been carefully written and edited with an interdisciplinary appeal and aims to bring all aspects of Algae together in one volume.

Originally published in 1987.

The Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture: A Guide to Competitive Potential with Case Studies describes and synthesizes existing methodologies for evaluating competitiveness in agriculture, introduces extensions and refinements, and provides a novel approach based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm.

This edited volume celebrates the positive stories and small changes happening with respect to gender equality in the field of agriculture.

Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago.

This edited book addresses a gap in literature by advancing current understandings of the applications of immersive technology within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector.

Underground Ventilation contains the proceedings of the 19th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium held at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines) in Rapid City, South Dakota, June 17-22, 2023.

The aim of process calculations is to evaluate the performance of minerals and coal processing operations in terms of efficiency of the operation, grade of the final products and recovery of the required constituents.

The use of secondary data for research can offer benefits, particularly when limited resources are available for conducting research using primary methods.

Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics.

A study on rock mechanics in salt mining, this work includes coverage of the exploration and opening of salt mining, deformation and failure of the salt, strata mechanics and control for different mining systems, and stability analyses of the mine structures.

Hall's work takes the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience.

Mining haul roads are a critical component of surface mining infrastructure and the performance of these roads has a direct impact on operational efficiency, costs and safety.

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge.

The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance pro- ducer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture.

This book examines democracy in recent Chinese-language philosophical work.

"e;Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years.

First Published in 1906, this book discusses farming in Britain, as well as exploring the business interests and concerns of the farmer whilst debating the future of traditional farming methods.

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

This text on building materials includes discussion of structural clay products, rocks and stones, wood, materials for making concrete, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and miscellaneous materials.

Crack reflection through a road structure is one of the main causes of premature pavement deterioration.

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world.

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society.

Collection of selected papers on current advances in high performance construction materials.

Originally published in 1980, this book draws together a wide range of studies dealing with various aspects of land use in a text specifically designed to guide students through the complexities of the subject.

Uranium Geology of the Middle East and North Africa demonstrates mining potential in the MENA region, with a special interest given to Uranium.

This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels.

This is a state-of-the-art report prepared by RILEM Technical Committee 116-PCD and is an authoritative, international review of the subject and is an essential reference source for engineers and technologists.

This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture.

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.

After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period.

Since its inception some 40 years ago, petroleum-specific taxation in the UK has been subject to numerous modifications.

This title was first published in 2001.

The latest 4th edition of the international standard on the principles of reliability for load bearing structures (ISO2394:2015) includes a new Annex D dedicated to the reliability of geotechnical structures.

From the standpoint of practising engineers, architects and contractors, the law of contract is the most important one and, from preparation of technical documents to its execution and in the determination of disputes, the engineer or architect must have relevant knowledge.

This book brings together, in a concise format, the key elements of the loads produced from explosive sources, and how they interact with structures.

This book focuses on natural products, in particular medicinal plants and their derived products, as an indispensable source of bioactive molecules that serve as either drug candidates or lead compounds for drug design and discovery .

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.

Aquaculture Landscapes explores the landscape architecture of farms, reefs, parks, and cities that are designed to entwine the lives of fish and humans.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world's oceans.

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda.