Agricultural science

With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

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.

This book comprises a selection of papers presented at the International Conference of Sustainable Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems (ICSEEIS 2025).

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

First published in 1986, The Transformation of Britain, 1830-1939 delves into the significant changes that occurred across the landscape and society of Britain during this prominent age of reform and innovation.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China's rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

This book focuses on sustainable food systems in the Global South as highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, which seeks to end global hunger through food and nutrient security.

Maize is the world's most widely grown cereal and a dietary staple throughout the Third World, but its full potential has only begun to be tapped.

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation and simulation tools that integrate all ecodesign aspects (e.

This volume presents a comprehensive perspective of the biopesticides Bacillus thuringiensis and Lysinibacillus sphaericus, from their basic biology to agriculture, forestry and public-health applications.

Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment integrates knowledge and experience on pollution problems related to industrial, agricultural and municipal activities and former military sites, with special emphasis on the Black Triangle: the region situated at the borders between North Bohemia, Polish Lower Silesia and South Saxony.

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

This book deals with the multi-omics approaches to investigate the diversity of endophytes and their interaction with plants in diversified ecological systems.

The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely populated coastal areas.

This book presents a compilation of case studies from different countries on achieving agricultural sustainability.

This instructional pocket reference condenses the most important aspects of small animal handling.

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible.

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature.

Spices are used in small quantities to add flavor, aroma, color, and texture in food preparation.

The farming system in the Central Himalayan Region is distinctive and unique, mainly focusing on the cultivation of traditional subsistence cereal crops.

A Comprehensive Database of Tests on Axially Loaded Driven Piles in Sands reviews the critical need to develop better load-test databases for piles driven in sands.

This volume is a collection of informative chapters on various subjects.

This volume, Temperate Fruits: Production, Processing, and Marketing, presents the latest pomological research on the production, postharvest handling, processing and storage, and information on marketing for a selection of temperate fruits.

Futures markets offer numerous advantages in the marketing of agricultural commodities, and in this context, the book examines the major factors and issues that determine the participation of India's farmers in the futures markets.

Biopolymers are polymers that are naturally sourced from renewable resources such as plants, animals, and microorganisms.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

This work provides information on the detection, identification, and differentiation of all microbial plant pathogens - presenting modern protocols for rapid diagnosis of diseases based on biological, physical, chemical and molecular properties.

This book provides a broad-based foundation of knowledge about brown rice, including the latest information on health benefits and disease prevention resulting from consumption of brown rice, and information on consumer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards brown rice.

A collection of articles which provide examples that demonstrate the application of dynamic programming to a wide variety of decision problems in agriculture.

The purpose of this book is to focus attention on some of these ideas and concepts.

There have been several advancements made in high-throughput protein technologies creating immense possibilities for studying proteomics on a large scale.

Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country.

Quality Control in Fruit and Vegetable Processing: Methods and Strategies illustrates the applications of various nonthermal technologies for improving the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables, such as microwave, ultrasound, gamma irradiation, pulsed light, and hurdle technology.

With contributions from more than 30 internationally renowned experts, this book combines coverage of theory with coverage of global practices.

The chapters in this book cover crop -weather interaction and agro-met observatory, agro-climatic analysis, crop micro-meteorology, remote sensing, crop simulation models, weather codes and their management, integrated weather forecast and agro advisories, climate change, livestock climatology/meteorology and astrometeorology.

The 12th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances was held from 26th to 31st August 1985 in Heidelberg, F.

Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce.

Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide presents new concepts and results from research into the problems caused by increasing levels of carbon dioxide.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

This book reviews and synthesizes the recent advances in exploiting host plant resistance to insects, highlighting the role of molecular techniques in breeding insect resistant crops.

This important book-the only complete, one-stop manual on microirrigation worldwide--offers knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system.

Throughout Subsaharan Africa, traditional pastoral societies are experiencing great change as ecological limitations intensify and national demands for livestock products expand.

Agriculture is facing unprecedented challenges including climate change, declining arable land, and a growing global population.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.

This book is dealing with the crop protection in soybean covering all the major insects' pests, diseases and weeds infesting soybean.