Agribusiness and primary industries

At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity.

This third edition describes and illustrates more than 515 fungal species, including 49 oomycetous, 35 zygomycetous, 49 ascomycetous, 38 basidiomycetous, and 344 anamorphic species.

Originally published in 1989, this book is a unique examination of subsistence farming in the developing world, and its potential for development.

Potato is a crop grown on all inhabited continents of the globe.

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

A history of mining.

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

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.

This book analyses situations of coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models according to four major dimensions of territorial development: the tension between specialisation and diversification; innovation; adaptation; and food transition.

This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth.

Natural resource governance is critical for linking poverty reduction and sustainable natural resource use.

This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish.

This book will take an in-depth look at the technologies, processes, and capabilities to develop and produce "e;next generation"e; energetic materials for both commercial and defense applications, including military, mining operations, oil production and well perforation, and construction demolition.

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective.

Susan Mann focuses on a longstanding controversy in sociological theory: why has agriculture been traditionally resistant to wage labor?

This is a rich and many-faceted personal and business biography of the main figure in the third generation of Weyerhaeusers, who led the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company through the difficult and decisive years from 1933 to 1956.

The animals loosely termed fish constitute more than half of all known vertebrate species.

Engineers seek solutions to problems, and the economic viability of each potential solution is normally considered along with the technical merits.

Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population.

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine.

One of the most pressing problems facing the construction industry globally is the deterioration of major concrete infrastructure in marine and other chloride-containing environments.

This integrated collection describes the importance of forage legumes for pasture development and improvement in the tropics and subtropics.

Role of Giant Honeybees in Natural and Agricultural Systems provides multidisciplinary perspective about the different facets of giant honeybees.

Once recognised as a high-performing newly industrialising Asian economy with the potential for economic and developmental success similar to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Thailand's growth rate and competitive edge have declined substantially.

Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy was advocated in India in 1991 under the supervision of P.

This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics.

This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).

Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted.

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century   Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast.

Sorghum is one of the hardiest crop plants in modern agriculture and also one of the most versatile.

The agri-food and rural development world has experienced significant changes in recent years.

A major study of the modern global coal market and its impacts both on energy markets and on climate policy.

The Board on Agriculture (BA), in this self-initiated study, reaffirms recommendations it made for the U.

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent.

This book develops and articulates a new perspective on the relationship between natural resources and development by foregrounding issues of innovation, knowledge, and industrial dynamics.

Proposing a simplified but intergrated scenario of concrete life cycle simulation method, this book examines and explains the vast amount of experimental observations related to hardening concrete using a common set of physical laws.

Proceedings of the CEC/IOBC Expert's Group Meeting, Pennes, France, November 1985.

Drawing on the author's extensive personal experience, Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific provides comprehensive coverage of the medicinal plants of the region.

This unique volume focuses on Egypt's conventional water resources and the main water consumer: Egypt's agriculture.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.

•Schuppen, Entgräten und Filetieren leicht gemacht•Richtig lagern und haltbar machen•Alles über Süß- und Salzwasserfische sowie MeeresfrüchteFür Fischliebhaber, Angler, Fischer und Direktvermarkter: Wie werden Fische richtig geschuppt, entgrätet und filetiert?

This two-volume book presents an abundance of important information on the bioactive and pharmacological properties of medicinal plants.

This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought.

Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the 'dominant view' of research into natural hazards.

With increasing globalization of markets, a wider array of programs has come to affect the food and agricultural marketing system, and many of today's programs are more consumer oriented than producer oriented.

This book provides construction professionals, designers, contractors and quality auditors involved in construction projects with the auditing skills and processes required to improve construction quality and make their projects more competitive and economical.

Vegan or carnivore?

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.