A thorough, critical, and up-to-date look at precision farming around the worldIn most developing countries, farming is the best safety net against hunger and keeping production costs under control without sacrificing crop yield is essential for survival.
The Role of Plant Roots in Crop Production presents the state of knowledge on environmental factors in root growth and development and their effect on the improvement of the yield of annual crops.
Volume III of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing.
This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.
This volume aims to be a comprehensive guide to the field of rice molecular biology, encompassing both time-honored techniques and state-of-the-art methodologies.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective.
This single volume explores the theoretical and the practical aspects of crop physiological processes around the world The marked decrease over the past century in the land available for crop production has brought about mounting pressure to increase crop yields, especially in developing nations.
This book provides simultaneously, a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of climate change issues in Morocco and proposes levers of action and innovative practices to be used to strengthen the resilience and adaptation strategies.
Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are among the most destructive agricultural pests in the world, eating their way through acres and acres of citrus and other fruits at an alarming rate and forcing food and agriculture agencies to spend millions of dollars in control and management measures.
This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.
Historically, research on the methods and amounts of trace element application to agriculture soils for correcting plant deficiencies has received major attention.
Plant Stress Tolerance: Molecular Mechanisms and Breeding Strategies, Volume One provides effective ways for organizing precision and sustainable agriculture.
Written in simple language with relevant examples, this illustrative introductory book presents best practices in experimental design and simple data analysis.
The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India.
Make sure your beef harvest, production, and processing methods meet the highest standards Handbook of Beef Safety and Quality is a comprehensive guide to the impact and importance of pre-harvest/production, harvest, and further processing controls, methods and practices on safety and qualitywith commodity beef as the target market.
The sugarcane industry faces a number of challenges in terms of stagnating production, price regulations, unstable sugarcane market, and water scarcity/drought.
This volume presents a thorough analysis of the concept and role of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) within the EU legal framework with a two-fold aim: first, it shows the pitfalls of the current legal scenario, which often limits alternatives rather than promoting them, and second, it provides a new conceptualisation for SFSCs under EU law by delineating and integrating all their distinctive features.
This volume presents a thorough analysis of the concept and role of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) within the EU legal framework with a two-fold aim: first, it shows the pitfalls of the current legal scenario, which often limits alternatives rather than promoting them, and second, it provides a new conceptualisation for SFSCs under EU law by delineating and integrating all their distinctive features.
Filled with practical applications and research, Biodegradation of Nitroaromatic Compounds and Explosives presents an international perspective on environmental contamination from explosives.
Reviews the development of novel feed sources as feed for poultry, focussing on the use of essential oils, macroalgae, microalgae and corn fermented protein Addresses the recent advances in understanding the role of individual nutrients and additives in poultry nutrition Considers the range of methods and techniques implementable to maintain the safety of poultry feed and prevent mycotoxin contamination
Offering up-to-date information on the uses and composition of the plant, Advances in Hemp Research provides growers, researchers, manufacturers, and suppliers with methods and data for the processing and cultivation of hemp for textile and paper products.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the field of sustainable development.
Chromatography has been developed as a powerful and rapid technique for the separation of compounds with highly similar molecular characteristics, even from complicated matrices.
Coordinated, well-functioning institutions are crucial for tackling environmental challenges like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource overuse.
Amid economic uncertainties, fluctuating oil prices, and a rising environmental consciousness, the need for sustainable and efficient food production has become dire.
The book combines knowledge about salinity problems from soil science and plant science and presents an in-depth treatment of the current scientific findings to enable plant production on saline soils.
The book combines knowledge about salinity problems from soil science and plant science and presents an in-depth treatment of the current scientific findings to enable plant production on saline soils.
