This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situation of the actors, citrus production and distribution infrastructure, consumer preferences, and digitization progress at farmer and production levels.
This book highlights various issues related to biodiversity conservation and land degradation, and the global challenges faced in achieving land degradation neutrality.
Agricultural Water Security: A Global Perspective offers a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and solutions surrounding sustainable water use in agriculture.
Plastics derived from renewable sources, such as biomass or animal-based materials, offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics.
This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.
Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential.
Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential.
This seventh edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to successfully manage food and agribusinesses in a rapidly changing, global, high-tech, consumer-oriented, and uncertain world.
At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.
Providing comprehensive coverage of the captivating world of temperate nut-bearing trees, delving into the intricate aspects of these remarkable plants, this volume offers a holistic exploration of their cultivation and utilization.
The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.
Evapotranspiration in Agro-Ecosystems and Forestry: Spatio-temporal Applications presents the progress and advances made in terms of science and application of evaporation, transpiration, and evapotranspiration for various vegetation surfaces, water bodies, and bare soil under different soil and crop management (including different irrigation and tillage management) conditions.
This detailed volume collects techniques for increasing our understanding of wheat rust pathogens, the host plant, and the interactions between the two.
This detailed volume collects techniques for increasing our understanding of wheat rust pathogens, the host plant, and the interactions between the two.
Fruits are valuable products; they are, however, highly perishable in nature and need special measures to maintain their quality while transporting them long distances for sale.
This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing.
Providing comprehensive coverage of the captivating world of temperate nut-bearing trees, delving into the intricate aspects of these remarkable plants, this volume offers a holistic exploration of their cultivation and utilization.
The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed a burgeoning interest in the ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape.
The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.
Global Wild Edibles of Deserts: Food Security and Sustainability provides coverage of topics in food and health in desert rangelands, using an interdisciplinary approach that considers health not only in a functional and human sense, but also in terms of external factors including aridity.
This book comprises a selection of papers presented at the International Conference of Sustainable Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Systems (ICSEEIS 2025).
This book covers up-to-date research on various emerging technologies in agriculture and agricultural engineering with discussing the advancement and gap between different techniques.
This book covers up-to-date research on various emerging technologies in agriculture and agricultural engineering with discussing the advancement and gap between different techniques.
The comprehensive software-based approach in this book provides an in-depth exploration of the latest innovations in greenhouse engineering, thus transforming the existing Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) to a futuristic Greenhouse Smart Agriculture (GSA), aiding the reader to optimize crop yields, reduce environmental impact, and enhance farm profitability through software decision support systems.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in understanding the role of soil microbiomes in delivering key ecosystem services such as carbon and nutrient cycling Reviews recent advances in understanding the role of different microbial communities in soil Shows how the beneficial role of soil microbiomes can be promoted in achieving a more sustainable agriculture
This book covers up-to-date research on various emerging technologies in agriculture and agricultural engineering with discussing the advancement and gap between different techniques.
This book covers up-to-date research on various emerging technologies in agriculture and agricultural engineering with discussing the advancement and gap between different techniques.
In the light of the impact of extreme weather events, declining agricultural productivity and child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, this book explores the potential for sustainable agriculture to better respond to climate-related threats.
In the light of the impact of extreme weather events, declining agricultural productivity and child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, this book explores the potential for sustainable agriculture to better respond to climate-related threats.
This book, by way of a comparative analysis of the main economic viewpoints of the Chinese and Western traditions, shows that the theories of the Physiocrats originated, in a significant way, from ancient Chinese economic thought.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in understanding the role of soil microbiomes in delivering key ecosystem services such as carbon and nutrient cycling Reviews recent advances in understanding the role of different microbial communities in soil Shows how the beneficial role of soil microbiomes can be promoted in achieving a more sustainable agriculture
This book, by way of a comparative analysis of the main economic viewpoints of the Chinese and Western traditions, shows that the theories of the Physiocrats originated, in a significant way, from ancient Chinese economic thought.
