Agricultural science

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

Recognized experts present incisive analysis of both fundamental and applied problems in this continuation of a highly acclaimed series.

Recognized experts present incisive analysis of both fundamental and applied problems in this continuation of a highly acclaimed series.

Animal biotechnology is a broad umbrella encompassing the polarities of fundamental and applied research including molecular modelling, molecular and quantitative genetics, gene manipulation, development of diagnostics and vaccines and manipulation of tissue or digestion metabolism by growth promoters.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world.

Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America.

Food aid continues to be a high profile, and perhaps the most controversial form of aid.

As the demand for healthy and sustainable food options increases, organic farming is becoming a viable alternative to conventional farming practices that traditionally rely heavily on synthetic inputs.

Desde la Raíz es una obra fascinante que sumerge al lector en las raíces del conocimiento y la innovación.

Effective management of pests and diseases is crucial for the successful and profitable cultivation of crops.

Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy presents an unprecedented comparison of three successive major reforms of the CAP.

This highly readable and up-to-date history provides an informative critique of the causes and consequences of the modern agricultural revolution, since the agricultural depression of the inter-war period.

The book describes the context within which the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has been established, the basic mechanisms of the policy for the main sectors of agricultural production and their adaptation over time in line with changes in the broader world economy; the changes in Eastern Europe, the problems of developing countries and the GATT-WTO Agreement in particular.

This book traces the decline of landed power in England between 1815 and 1939, primarily in political, but also in economic and social terms.

To what extent does domestic politics affect the agreement reached in an international trade negotiation?

In this frank account of events, Sir Richard Packer, former Permanent Secretary at MAFF, details the facts of the BSE outbreak, how government responded to the crisis and how the press contributed to widespread public panic.

Trade in temperate zone farm products between the developed countries has been beset with problems since the GATT's inception in 1947.

Agricultural development in Central America is based on extensive growth, supported by macroeconomic policies that marginalize small peasants.

In this first monograph on the Russian cooperative movement before 1914, economic and social change is considered alongside Russian political culture.

With the adoption of a World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment programme in the mid-1980s, Guinea underwent a dramatic change in its economic and agricultural policies.

The impact of both colonial economic policies and Western enterprise on indigenous agriculture in Indonesia has long been a matter of contention among scholars.

This volume is the first ever English translation of Part III of von Thunen`s famous 'Isolated State'.

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Molecular Host Plant Resistance to Pests examines environmentally safe and integrated techniques for effective pest management.

Explores the molecular, biochemical, functional, structural, and developmental mechanisms of pH in plant growth.

Inter-basin water transfers are complex human interventions on natural systems that can have profound adverse as well as beneficial social, economic and environmental implications.

According to the United Nations, 77 million people are expected to face water shortage by 2025, if people continue to use water at the current rate.

Recognition of the importance of soil organic matter (SOM) in soil health and quality is a major part of fostering a holistic, preventive approach to agricultural management.

A perpetual bestseller, this third edition explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science.

Without proper hydraulic fill and suitable specialised equipment, many major infrastructure projects such as ports, airports, roads, industrial or housing projects could not be realised.

Digital soil assessments and beyond contains papers presented at the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 10-13 April 2012 at the University of Sydney, Australia.

The world is more interested in issues surrounding agricultural and food issues than ever before.

The world is more interested in issues surrounding agricultural and food issues than ever before.

"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.

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.

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

This book, based on research carried out at the Academia Sinica over the past 30 years, explains the basic difference between the variable charge soils of tropical and subtropical regions, and the constant charge soils of temperate regions.

Agricultural ecology, or agroecology, deals in general with the structure and function of agroecosystems at different levels of resolution.

This is a completely revised edition of the previously titled Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System.

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

The book discusses the best international practices in digital agriculture.

Food security is a pressing concern in the Caribbean.

Drawing on the author's extensive and varied research, this book provides readers with a firm grounding in the concepts and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of improving the design of food policies in the developed and developing world.

This book covers about 20 grape species that are vitally important in breeding programs and provide information on approximately 150 of the most familiar grape rootstocks in the world.

This book on lupin genomics primarily focuses on the narrow-leafed lupin (NLL), and details the genomic resources that have been developed and how they are currently being used to help advance both fundamental and applied research on NLL in areas ranging from its domestication to plant-microbe interactions and syntenic relationships between NLL and other legume crops.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

This volume continues the retrospective analyses of Volumes I and II, but goes beyond that in an attempt to understand how phenolic acids are partitioned in seedling-solution and seedling-microbe-soil-sand culture systems and how phenolic acid effects on seedlings may be related to the actual and/or conditional physicochemical properties (e.

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.

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