Agribusiness and primary industries

Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems contains the Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015, held 7-10 September 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics.

The wisdom of Confucius, China's greatest teacher and sage, can guide each of us in our own time.

Recommended in CHOICE, February 2021Insects are all around us, outweighing humanity by 17 times.

Structures and Architecture - Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders contains the lectures and papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2019) that was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2019.

Originally published in 1987, this book discusses the problem of rural employment in developing countries.

Rock dynamics has become one of the most important topics in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering.

Australia has the ideal conditions for growing and processing table olives.

Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues.

What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates?

In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining.

In the second half of the twentieth century, significant changes were occurring within the agricultural industry, including an increase in efficiency and government intervention, as well as expanded and more complicated patterns of trade.

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health.

The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan.

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history.

Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.

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.

The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades.

The term "e;soil health"e; refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also improving the environment.

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry.

This book deals with matrix methods of structural analysis for linearly elastic framed structures.

This volume is a collection of twelve selected empirical studies on the economics of agriculture and natural resources.

Energy Science and Applied Technology includes contributions on a wide range of topics:- Technologies in geology, mining, oil and gas exploration and exploitation of deposits- Energy transfer and conversion, materials and chemical technologies- Environmental engineering and sustainable development- Electrical and electronic technology, power system

The English systems of land tenure have influenced land-holding far beyond Britain.

The purpose of ground support is to safely maintain excavations for their expected lifespan.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which came into effect in July 2019.

The aim of this book is to take the reader by the hand and show them exactly how to carry out various inspection techniques to identify the causes of damp in buildings.

Refractory metals such as W, Mo, Ta, Nb, and Re have immense potential for application in plasma-facing materials in nuclear reactors, defense materials, aviation counterweights, heating elements in furnaces, and so forth.

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information on the Arab Gulf region, especially the impact of oil revenues on its economic, political and social development.

This book develops an analytical framework for understanding United States foreign agricultural policy through a "e;state interest"e; approach, and describes and analyses seven cases of food policy decisions through this perspective which shows that decision makers sought on most occasions to utilise US food resources to accomplish foreign policy objectives.

The mining industry has experienced important improvements with regard to its safety record and work environment.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

This comprehensive and authoritative review of durability of concrete in cold environments will enable concrete materials specialists and practising engineers to understand the mechanisms responsible for deterioration of concrete through freeze/thaw action.

Late in the 1930s, the U.

Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century.

Originally published in 1982.

This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe.

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.

Fatigue Prediction for Random Loads serves as a comprehensive treatise for methods for fatigue estimation and fatigue life prediction in randomly excited structural systems using the rainflow cycle counting method.

This pivot focuses on "e;the concept of edification"e; in a bid to systematically expound its connotative structure and logical evolution.

The book provides a guide to rock engineers and engineering geologists as to how to perform laboratory tests and how to use the existing data for solving practical rock engineering design and operating problems.

In the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people?

Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics.

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

The evaluation of in-situ rock stress is not only important in the exploration and engineering involving rock masses for mining, hydropower, tunneling, oil and gas production, and stone quarrying, but also in the geodynamics and earthquake prediction.