Agricultural science

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.

This book critically examines the environmental hazards posed by global warming with regard to future food security, which will depend on a combination of stresses, both biotic and abiotic, imposed by climate change; variability of weather within a growing season; and the development of cultivars that are more sensitive to different ambient conditions.

 Healthy environment is important for any kind of biota on earth.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rapidly evolving COVID-19, increasing population growth, and exponential expansion in demand for agricultural commodities are putting pressure on available resources, thereby posing immense challenges to the region's capacity to achieve nutritional security related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Plants have to manage a series of environmental stresses throughout their entire lifespan.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

With the recent shift of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to organic agriculture, the employment of microbes that perform significant beneficial functions for plants has been highlighted.

This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in medicine and pharmacy, agriculture, food science and water treatment.

This book constitutes the 25th International Conference on Infrastructure and Environment (infraeco 2018) that focuses on rural problems connected with infrastructural equipment.

This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in green chemistry, energy, biotechnology, bioprinting, medicine, water treatment, agriculture and food science.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book presents a study of cooperatives as a two-layer entrepreneurial model, and analyzes cooperative enterprises.

This book describes the sequencing efforts for Neem (Azadirachta indica A.

This book focusing on the bitter gourd genome is the first comprehensive compilation of knowledge on the botany, cytogenetical analysis, genetic resources and diversity, traditional breeding, tissue culture and genetic transformation, whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics in the Cucurbitaceae family.

This book assesses the current challenges and opportunities for the next generation of agriculture and food science.

In recent years, radioactive contamination in the environment by uranium (U) and its daughters has caused increasing concerns globally.

This book conceptualizes a revolutionary idea based on a mechanistic-mathematical model in which the "e;Buffer Power"e; of the principal and problematic nutrients like phosphorus, potassium and zinc is quantified.

This brief explores several adaptive agricultural practices from around the world to fulfill current and future agricultural demands for food security due to the challenges posed by climate change and growing global population.

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals.

This book provides an authoritative review of the origin and extraction of strontium and its impact on the environment.

This book reviews how the release of the citrus genome facilitates the investigation of ancestral species, the study of their complex biological features, and the genetic basis of agronomic traits of paramount importance for their sustainable cultivation.

This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world's largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

The Gram-positive and spore-forming Bacilli are the most dominant group of bacteria that exist in various ecological niches on the earth.

This book presents the latest trends and challenges in the development of general engineering and mechanical engineering in the agriculture and horticulture sectors.

Over the past few decades, chromatin modulation has emerged as an important regulator of gene expression.

This book describes the consequences of an increased demand for food for human consumption for the global food industry.

This book aims at deriving governance and sustainability lessons from analysing the implementation and management of some major irrigation programs in the Mediterranean Region.

This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretical rigor of quantitative methods for modeling agricultural production, market dynamics, and natural resource management.

This volume discusses emerging contexts of agricultural and ecosystem resilience in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary technological advances that have influenced African livelihoods.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933.

This book describes the exciting biology and chemistry of strigolactones.

This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations that exist in contemporary agriculture.

Microbes are ubiquitous in nature.

This text identifies common mistakes and challenges in food preservation in developing countries, offering solutions which can play a significant role in reducing food waste in these countries.

This book is the result of remarkable contribution from the experts of interdisciplinary fields of Science with comprehensive, in-depth and up-to-date research and reviews.

Addressing the pear genome, this book covers the current state of knowledge regarding genetic and genomic resources, breeding approaches and strategies, as well as cutting-edge content on how these tools and resources are being / soon will be utilized to pursue genetic improvement efforts that will combine fruit quality, high productivity, precocious fruit bearing, and long postharvest storage life, along with elevated levels of resistance to various major diseases and insect pests.

This book tells the story behind the first Spirodela genome sequencing project.

This book reviews the current status of P.

This book presents a summary of terrestrial microbial processes, which are a key factor in supporting healthy life on our planet.

This single-volume thoroughly summarizes advances in the past several decades and emerging challenges in fundamental research in geotechnical engineering.

Plants have to manage a series of environmental stresses throughout their entire lifespan.

This book addresses, reviews and evaluates key themes in organic aquaculture and is set out to show how these relate to the challenges and bottlenecks for a responsible organic aquaculture production in Europe.

This book tackles the issue of using crop rotation to increase food production and secure it for the growing population of the future.

Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche.

Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche.

This comprehensive study of poultry meat safety offers readers the most up-to-date information on food safety concerns in poultry meat production.

This volume provides an overview of the fundamental concepts and recent advancements in organic farming, a form of agriculture that is increasing rapidly in popularity.