Agribusiness and primary industries

This book offers comprehensive insights into the latest developments in biodiversity, sustainability, and agri-food supply chains, fostering an informed approach to policymaking decisions in the agriculture and agri-food industry within the global economy.

This book offers comprehensive insights into the latest developments in biodiversity, sustainability, and agri-food supply chains, fostering an informed approach to policymaking decisions in the agriculture and agri-food industry within the global economy.

This book explains forest and woody biomass harvest, harvesting machines, systems, logistics, supply chain management, best management practices, harvest scheduling and carbon sequestration.

What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?

The latest edition of this best-selling title is updated and expanded for easier use by engineers.

Recognizing the increased interest in forest management world wide, this book addresses the current knowledge gap by defining sustainable forest management, clarifying methods by which ecological knowledge can be applied and how traditional silvicultural methods can be improved.

This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work.

Volume 3 of this series of the Handbooks in Economics follows on from the previous two volumes by focusing on the fundamental concepts of agricultural economics.

Fish and shellfish comprise annually nearly 70-million tons of the world's edible animal protein.

Agricultural growth, bolstered by technological advancements and international trade, enhances economic stability and food security in many developing nations in one hand, and reduces income disparities between developed and less developed nations on the other.

Sea lice are one of the most important and costly health issues for Atlantic salmon aquaculture and for culture of many other marine fish species.

The chapters in this book present a snapshot of the state of knowledge of air pollution effects at the beginning of the 21st century.

After securing popularity in home aquariums, zebrafish have also become an essential animal for biomedical research.

The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model.

Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.

Giving you the first comprehensive presentation of the ground breaking research undertaken at Heriot Watt University, with Research Council and industrial funding, this book brings a new perspective to the design of building drainage and vent systems.

Under the pressure of climate and social changes, agriculture is called to play a fundamental role in the world food challenge of the next few decades.

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India.

Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection.

In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threatened extinction for many species.

Agricultural Nanobiotechnology: Biogenic Nanoparticles, Nanofertilizers and Nanoscale Biocontrol Agents presents the most up-to-date advances in nanotechnology to improve the agriculture and food industry with novel nanotools for the controlling of rapid disease diagnostic and enhancement of the capacity of plants to absorb nutrients and resist environmental challenges.

Future Food Systems: Exploring Global Production, Processing, Distribution and Consumption provides an overview of food systems, from farming through to logistics, processing, retail, service and consumption, with the intention of enabling more efficient development of policy and implementation of food related practices.

Pinky Colefounder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegantakes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries.

The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods, ice storms, etc.

Handbook of Plant-Based Meat Analogs : Innovation, Technology and Quality presents the growing opportunities and challenges of meat substitutes from plant-based resources.

Disturbance ecology continues to be an active area of research, having undergone advances in many areas in recent years.

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression.

Unmanned Aerial Systems in Agriculture: Eyes Above Fields bridges the gap between knowledge of concept and real-world use and operations of UASs in agri-production.

Fisheries are in a state of crisis throughout the world.

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems.

Management of Coking Coal Resources provides a one-stop reference that focuses on sustainable mining practices using a four-point approach that includes the economical, governmental, societal, and environmental aspects of coal exploration, coking coal mining, and steelmaking applications.

Written by the Shale Shaker Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, originally of the American Association of Drilling Engineers, the authors of this book are some of the most well-respected names in the world for drilling.

Potato is a crop grown on all inhabited continents of the globe.

Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced.

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition.

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition.

This book is a rich resource of important information on coldwater fish farming and coldwater fisheries management, including new research and recent technological advances.

The current era of incredible innovations has made science and technology one of the most powerful tools to meet the goals of incremental prosperity for humans and sustainable development.

This book focuses on the transition of hundreds of rural households in ten villages in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2002, based on the theme of rural household sustainable development.

The Lentil Genome is a comprehensive volume on this important legume, from its economic importance to the latest in sequencing.

The Lentil Genome is a comprehensive volume on this important legume, from its economic importance to the latest in sequencing.

Long-Term Farming Systems Research: Ensuring Food Security in Changing Scenarios presents the legacy and heritage of Long-Term Experiments (LTEs) in Agriculture while also addressing the challenges and potential solutions.

Advancement in Crop Improvement Techniques presents updates on biotechnology and molecular biological approaches which have contributed significantly to crop improvement.

Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined shows that countries in sub-Saharan Africa with majority state ownership of their major oil or mineral export sectors suffered from more severe versions of the natural resource curse than other similar countries.

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China's 56 ethnic groups.

Brazil's growing dependence on agriculture has positioned agribusiness in a uniquely privileged position to influence Brazilian foreign policy.

Offshore Pipelines covers the full scope of pipeline development from pipeline designing, installing, and testing to operating.

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This book provides a genealogical study of Australian agricultural restructuring, focusing on the case study of wheat export market deregulation.