Agricultural science

Bioinformatics is an integrative field of computer science, genetics, genomics, proteomics, and statistics, which has undoubtedly revolutionized the study of biology and medicine in past decades.

As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation.

World population is set to increase by a third in the next 25 years, with no corresponding increase in global rainfall.

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.

Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted for in this informative handbook.

This book summarizes the research done on preharvest sprouting during recent years.

This book provides basic knowledge of the programming and interfacing of devices with IoT modem and programming.

Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South.

The basic objective of the book is to define and review the recent advances in our understand on the biological mechanisms in the biodegradation and detoxification of various environmental pollutants.

Reduce the environmentally negative aspects of industrial agriculture with an ecologically sound philosophy!

Diverse Applications of Nanotechnology in the Biological Sciences: An Essential Tool in Agri-Business and Health Care Systems explores the diverse roles that nanobiotechnology plays in the medical sciences, pharmacy, healthcare, and in plants and agriculture.

Published in 1993: This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the relationships between host plant structure and pathological anatomy.

This book gathers contributions on modern irrigation environments in Egypt from an environmental and agricultural perspective.

Employing a social justice framework, this book examines the effects of innovation incentives and policies in agriculture.

This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers.

Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures, more commonly referred to as BELLE, began as a conference in May 1990.

Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy.

This book critically explores the political ecology of human marginalization, wildlife conservation and the role of the state in politicizing conservation frameworks, drawing on examples from forests in India.

Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs.

The overarching goal of South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, lower unemployment and increase the labour participation.

Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green.

Post-reform India has seen a decline in agricultural growth as well as supply-demand imbalance and rising prices.

This book provides a survey of biochemical, physiological and histological biomarkers of environmental stress, along with evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of various techniques for different applications.

This practical guide is intended for all actors in the sector who work with large camelids, whether in breeding, technical advice or veterinary care.

Interest in insect behavior is growing rapidly, as reflected both in courses devoted fully to the topic and in its inclusion in general biology, ecology, invertebrate zoology, and animal behavior--as well as general entomology--curricula.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the WASTES 2015 conference, a platform for scientists and industries from the waste management and recycling sectors from around the world, who shared experiences and knowledge at the meeting.

This book proves, through empirical research, that indigenous and traditional agricultural communities have experienced severe climate change impacts, and have developed corresponding livelihood strategies to strengthen their resilience in a variable climate.

The depletion of land resources is one of the greatest challenges for mankind in this millennium.

This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society.

Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation focuses on minor crustacean groups and regionally endemic groups, all from freshwaters.

The food system is our last coal-fired power station, our last diesel engine.

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and Crop Improvements is part of a two-volume compendium that addresses the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today.

This book consists of 10 Chapters in 4 Parts.

A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection of ideas for plant improvement Most of the world's supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses.

This two-volume series will describe the mechanisms that are operating on chemicals as thy move in the environment.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined.

Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials.

This book presents the European Common Agricultural Policy by tracing its crucial stages from its conception to the present days.

Within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) was established as an implementing agreement.

In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, this gives the very early history of how human ingenuity overcame the risk of famine through productive agriculture.

This book is a compendium of information related to innovations, commercialization and registration of biopesticides, recent advances in mass production, formulation, extension of shelf life, delivery systems of antagonists and entomopathogens and synergistic and antagonistic response of biopesticides with agrochemicals.

Simple, clear, and to the point, Probability and Statistics Applications for Environmental Science delineates the fundamentals of statistics, imparting a basic understanding of the theory and mechanics of the calculations.

The greatest challenge of our time is to produce sufficient food ot keep pace with the rapidly growing population.

Several long-term trends in technology evolution have become apparent since these symposia began in 1989.

This work provides a survey and analysis of Mexico's agrarian reform, covering topics such as the agricultural provisions of NAFTA.

This highly informative monograph will provide a basic reference on coffee rust for both investigators in the field and those entering it.

Published in 1995: This book is not designed as a culture manual for herbivorous fishes, but the reader is directed to other sources.

Secondary Endosymbioses, Volume 84, the latest release in the Advances in Botanical Research series, summarizes eight major groups possessing complex plastids, including heterokonts, dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, chromerids, haptophytes, cryptophytes, euglenophytes and chlorarachniophytes.