Agribusiness and primary industries

This book compiles, discusses, and explains the key concepts in land politics in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.

Le lait est une matière complexe tant par sa composition que par l’organisation de ses constituants.

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region.

This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.

Green Biotechnology for Herbal and Medicinal Plant Metabolites presents an innovative approach that leverages plant-derived molecules for agriculture, medicine, and wellness in pursuit of sustainable health solutions.

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Confucius is one of our very best thinkers, a model for living a self-aware and virtuous life.

This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the quantity surveying profession.

This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.

This book outlines a cutting-edge form of program delivery which the authors term SIP-Form or Strategic Integrated Program delivery.

Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.

Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist.

This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry.

The world's leading chocolate taster shares his wild ride to attain the most envied job, and explains his warning heard around the world: that we might soon run out of chocolate.

In the early nineteenth century, a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebellum United States.

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

West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells celebrates the state of West Virginia.

Industrial Explosives and their Applications for Rock Excavation focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works.

I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing.

"e;Not just a terrific read, but an important life to have on the national record.

We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck - too much luck, more than we know what to do with.

This study identifies and analyses the methods, achievements, and constraints of the socialist agricultural policy of post-revolutionary Ethiopia.

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale.

The conference on "e;Innovative Synergies: Business, Agriculture, Technology and Resource Management for Sustainable Development (CVBSG2024)"e; is designed to drive sustainable development across various sectors.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

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

The continent of Africa is rich in minerals needed by Western economies, but rather than forming the basis for economic growth the mining industry contributes very little to African developmentInvestigating the impact of the 2003 Extractive Industries Review on a number of African countries, the contributors find that a key dimension of the problem lies in the regulatory frameworks imposed on the African countries by the IMF and World Bank.

The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector.

This book focuses on the structural design of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavement (ICBP) including application, analysis, design, construction, and the fundamental design concept of ICBP backed by case studies to demonstrate long- term performance of ICBP.

Today, important fisheries have become commercially extinct and others are threatened.

This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

This first Issue in the series contains nine articles written by leading British and American experts from the mining industry, regulatory authorities, and academia, and incorporates the latest research.

In the 1960s, the farming industry of Britain had been transformed and modernised to the point where output per person was the highest in Europe.

Fuel Flexible Energy Generation: Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Fuels provides updated information on flexible fuel energy generation, the process by which one or more fuels can be combusted in the same boiler or turbine to generate power.

Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe.

When relations are facilitated by communication technologies such as e-business, food supply networks can improve efficiency, flexibility and effectiveness.

Freeze-drying is an important preservation technique for heat-sensitive pharmaceuticals and foods.

Activity in the gold markets has focused investors' attention on this unique commodity.

For a food product to be a success in the marketplace it must be stable throughout its shelf-life.

This is a comprehensive guide the wool industry and the trading mechanisms involved in this vital business.

Written for those involved in the markets who have always found that there was never one central source on which to on for a comprehensive treatment of the international rice market.

Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues.

Working with prestigious archives of contemporary photographs, the authors chart the history of Britain's farming heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs.

Working with prestigious archives of contemporary photographs, the authors chart the history of Britain's fishing heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs.

Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures addresses the occurrence, prediction, and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects.

The first comprehensive guide to the petrography of geomaterials, making the petrographers specialist knowledge available to practitioners, educators and students worldwide interested in modern and historic construction materials.