Agricultural science

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losing that rich diversity.

This book provides undergraduates with a step-by-step guide to successfully carrying out an independent research project or dissertation.

With urbanization as a global phenomenon, there is a need for data and information about these terrains.

This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draws on multiple approaches and subjects to explore the socio-economic, cultural, ecological, institutional, legal, and policy aspects of regenerative food practices.

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

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.

This volume explores specific approaches that have shown to result in crop yield increases.

This volume presents new methods and applications in longitudinal data estimation methodology in applied economic.

According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007.

The global human population will reach nine billion by 2050, and seafood is projected to be the primary food source to sustain such a large population.

This textbook addresses the core issues facing economists concerning price determination in commodity markets, especially food and agricultural commodities.

This book focuses exclusively on the welfare of goats, which have peculiar behavioral characteristics and needs, and distinct individual personalities.

Land degradation in drylands is a multi-faceted problem.

This book emphasizes on cutting-edge next-generation smart plant breeding approaches for maximizing the use of genomic resources generated by high-throughput genomics in the post-genomic era.

Clean environment and green energy are the basic requirements of a sustainable human life.

The research field of "e;plant speed breeding"e; is promising to meet the future demand for crop improvement in an efficient and effective manner.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Greece.

This book includes contributions from scientists and representatives from government and non-governmental organisations working in the field of land management and use and on management of fires.

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region.

The 38 chapters of this Field Manual provide the tools required for planning experiments with entomopathogens and their implementation in the field.

Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population.

This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia.

A holistic overview of soil fauna, their contributions to ecosystem function, and implications of global change belowground.

This book deals with the practical aspects in regeneration of field crop plants; regeneration of pasture plants; and regeneration of horticultural plants.

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of the new knowledge gained to improve the productivity of agricultural crops, as also to enhance their resistance to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses.

An understanding of the characteristics and the ecology of soils, particularly those of forest ecosystems in the humid tropics, is central to the development of sustainable forest management systems.

Now in its third edition, this classic volume characterizes the science and technology of the poultry industry today, defines the breadth and scope of the overall problems in the industry, and points out areas where more research is needed.

Increasing human population pressure, especially in developing countries, indicates a massive increase in the consumption of livestock products.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to  basic ecological and biological principles underlying modern agriculture, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, and explains how these principles are used to increase the production of food and other raw materials (wood, biofuels, fibers and other materials).

The world population is projected to reach nine billion by 2050, and in the coming years, global food demand is expected to increase by 50% or more.

Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Herbicide-Resistant Crops is the first book to cover all of the issues related to the controversial topic of herbicide-resistant crops.

Climate change is having an increasing impact on coastal, estuarine, and marine environments worldwide.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.

This book highlights the best practices regarding nanoscience and nanotechnology for agriculture and environmental sectors to shape sustainable development thought to improve the quality and quantity of the agriculture products and to decrease the collateral effect of nanotechnology in the ecosystems.

This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the abiotic stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, flooding, submergence, salinity, acidity, etc.

Biofertilizer refers to the live or latent microbial inoculants capable of enhancing plant growth through direct and indirect mechanisms.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering, Volume I - Fundamentals, Technologies, and Management is a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about food engineering and processing, under sustainable engineering perspective.

The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions.

Die sehr schnelle Entwicklung von Lebensmittelchemie und Lebensmitteltechno­ logie in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten, die durch die starke Erweiterung sowohl der analytischen als auch der verfahrenstechnischen Möglichkeiten bedingt ist, läßt den international bestehenden Mangel an zusammenfassenden Darstel­ lungen für Unterricht und Fortbildung besonders fühlbar werden.

Agricultural engineering, developed as an engineering discipline underpinned by physics, applies scientific principles, knowledge, and technological innovations in the agricultural and food industries.

A New Scientist, Globe and Mail, and Eater Best Book of 2023In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, a surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines (Kirkus, STARRED)from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauceand why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future.

Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bac- at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other.

This textbook explores the complex nature of soil biological communities and their environments, and covers deserts, rainforests, seasonal tropical forests, dry deciduous forests, and island environments in the tropical zone.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

While organic soils have the potential to contribute greatly to agricultural production, the irreversible processes that occur from draining organic soils need to be managed with caution.

This volume celebrates the life and career of Gordon Rausser, pioneer and leader in natural resource economics, while critically overviewing the emerging literature in the field.