Agribusiness and primary industries

Become a mobile food mogul with advice from an industry expertThis book is fully stocked with everything you need to know to join the ranks of foodies-on-wheels.

Learn to start and run your own coffee bar with tips to brewing successThe caffeine-lover in you has always wanted to start your own coffee bar--and all the guidance you'll need is right here in your hands!

Around 90% of all new restaurants fail in the first year of operation.

Where everybody knows their name.

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.

Shows how the widespread use of food dyes influenced understanding of food, science, and technology, as well as trust in science.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The politics of food is changing fast.

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

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.