Agribusiness and primary industries

The Psychology of Eating is the essential multidisciplinary introduction to the psychology of eating, looking at the biological, genetic, developmental, and social determinants of how humans find and assimilate food.

Making the dream a reality?

Industrial Decarbonization: Materials, Methods, and Developments offers a timely and in-depth exploration of the technologies and strategies reshaping high-emission industries in the global push toward carbon neutrality.

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets.

Feeding the world's growing population is a critical policy challenge for the twenty-first century.

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity.

The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US.

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution.

Foodborne illness is a big problem.

How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today?

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity-for good or ill-to the rest of the world.

For the first 150 years of their existence, "e;natural foods"e; were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure.

China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s.

While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past.

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers.

The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years.

Concrete is an inherently complex material to produce and an even more complex material to repair.

Vetiveria is one of the most versatile genera in plant kingdom.

This book looks at the distribution, occurrences, potential and prospects for good governance, transparency and sustainable development of geological resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel.

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply.

Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale.

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career in the economics of technical and institutional change.

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation.

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled.

"e;Tomorrow's Table"e; argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.

"e;Tomorrow's Table"e; argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.

The politics of food is changing fast.

Hsieh Liang-tso (c.

Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment.

Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food.

During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically.

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply.

Ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM) is rapidly becoming the default approach in global fisheries management.

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

From farm to fork, the conventional food chain is under enormous pressure to respond to a whole series of new challenges - food scares in rich countries, food security concerns in poor countries, and a burgeoning problem of obesity in all countries.

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations.

Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange.