Agribusiness and primary industries

In an era of declining budgets, governments are seeking more efficient and cost-effective means of delivering fisheries services.

This publication contains statistics on fisheries and aquaculture in OECD countries for 1998 and 1999.

Israel's agriculture is unique amongst developed countries in that land and water resources are nearly all state-owned and that agricultural production is dominated by co-operative communities.

This overview of global markets for fish and fish products finds that they have changed considerably over the past few decades and continue to do so, with ever growing interactions across countries and continents.

This tenth edition of the OECD Agricultural Outlook analyses how global and domestic forces are shaping agricultural markets to 2013.

Beyond its primary function of supplying food and fibre, agricultural activity can produce environmental services, or have negative effects such as creating pollution.

This eleventh edition of the Agricultural Outlook provides an assessment of agricultural market prospects based on medium-term projections that extend to 2014 for production, consumption, trade and prices ofmajor agriculturalcommodities.

Game meat is consumed world-wide.

This book is a contribution of the authors to the food - fuel debate.

"e;This book is the result of several years of expedition into the development of metropolitan FoodClusters.

The Southern Africa region has experienced more than its fair share of problems in recent years.

This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa.

These proceedings present the latest achievements and developments within the scientific community of fur animal research organised by the International Fur Animal Scientific Association (IFASA).

This book aims at both academics and professionals in the field of forest-people interfaces.

Central Asia is vulnerable to water scarcity because it is located in semiarid and arid vegetation zones and large parts of its economy depend on water for irrigation and energy.

One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process.

More than 30-year operational satellite data have already been used for monitoring land, ocean and atmosphere.

The aim of this book is to bring together a series of contributions from experts in the field to cover the major aspects of the application of geostatistics in precision agriculture.

Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way.

First published in 2006.

The field of mining safety is rapidly evolving and staying abreast of regulations and standards is crucial for any mining professional.

This book focuses on the (re)invention of French food in the US, probing the intricate transatlantic dynamics underlying notions of cooking and eating French.

Este libro ofrece una visión alternativa de la China antigua, un período crucial y particularmente fecundo en el terreno de la reflexión, cimentada en el estudio de los diversos modos en que se declinan tres efigies emblemáticas —sabios, desviados y autócratas— que, debido a sus propiedades o destrezas extraordinarias, se sitúan fuera de la norma y de lo común.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

- Recolectar los productos de los cultivos herbáceos teniendo en cuenta las normas de calidad, trazabilidad y seguridad alimentarias.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

- Transportar y realizar el almacenamiento de los productos y subproductos correctamente utilizando los equipos e instalaciones apropiados.

This book explores Veganism through the holistic journeys and lived experiences of former vegans, with a particular focus on the impact this has on their Selfhood and identity.

"En México, tan sólo en los últimos veinte años se han extraído más minerales ""preciosos"" que durante toda la época colonial.

The book essentially covers the growing role of AI in the oil and gas industry, including digital technologies used in the exploration phase, customer sales service, and cloud-based digital storage of reservoir simulation data for modeling.

Tauchen Sie ein in die mystische Welt der chinesischen Mythologie und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelten spirituellen Traditionen, die eine der ältesten Zivilisationen der Menschheitsgeschichte geprägt haben.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificacion profesional y adquisicion de certificados de profesionalidad.

Identificar y caracterizar las bombas de trasiego, los depositos de aceite, los utensilios y los productos de limpieza para el almacenamiento final de aceites de oliva en bodega.

This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India.

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 analyses the performance and potential of India's oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country's oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment, increasing demand, slow growth in domestic production and rising imports.

This book helps readers understand the concepts of marketed and marketable surplus, as well as the role of the government and marketing agencies, including those in the private sector, in improving market efficiency.

This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism.

This book examines the performance of organized retail chains supplying the agri-input and output services in terms of achieving their objective of utilising collective bargaining power in the marketing of their agricultural produce, integrating empirical experience from India and other selected developing countries.

This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development - economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development - over a period of forty years since the 1970s.

The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy and public administration.

This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation.

Divided into three parts - Rationale and Extent of Agricultural Diversification, Nature and Problems of Agricultural Diversification, and Food and Livelihood Security through Agricultural Diversification, this edited book examines various aspects of agricultural diversification in Eastern India.

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Microfinance, risk taking behavior and rural livelihood are the three dominating issues in the rural financial landscape.

Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral levels.

A number of driving forces, including the soaring global crude oil prices and environmental concerns in both developed and developing nations has triggered a renewed interest in the recent years on the R&D of biofuel crops.

This book is the outcome of more than 20 years of experience of the author in teaching and research field.

This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield.