Agricultural science

This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).

This book serves as the first comprehensive compilation describing the breeding strategies and genetics and genomics of the coconut palm.

Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies.

This book elaborates on the transformation of agricultural development in China into the construction of a "e;resource and ecologically sound society"e;, and the coordinated development of industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization in China.

Sucking pests are most notorious group of pests for agricultural crops.

This volume presents select papers presented during the Second International Conference on Waste Management held at IIT Guwahati.

This book establishes the equations of limit analysis and provides a complete theoretical basis for foundation capacity, slope stability, and earth pressure.

This book presents research on volatiles produced by microbes and plants along with their biotechnological implications for sustainable agriculture.

This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

Pollution is one of the most serious issues facing mankind and other life forms on earth.

This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge.

The Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869 is the most widely farmed sturgeon species.

This book focuses on signaling molecules in plant defense, outlining some of the most important cellular and chemical plant defense strategies during periods of stress and growth.

This book is a sound science report about the consequences of pesticides to nature, health and environment.

This third volume on environmental nanotechnology includes chapters dealing with topics such nanoremediation, waste water purification, nanosensors, nanomedicine, and nanofiltration.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of on abiotic stresses in terms of the challenges; scope and opportunities; copping strategies for adaptation and mitigation using novel tools for building resilience in agricultural crops and livestock; as well as for policy implementation.

The emergence of nanotechnology and the development of new nanodevices and nanomaterials have opened up exciting opportunities for novel applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

This book provides a detailed review of the accumulated experience and lessons from China's agricultural reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, examining various aspects of this transition and providing a new perspective that can contribute to developing economic theories.

This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems.

This book introduces readers to both seed treatment and seedling pretreatments, taking into account various factors such as plant age, growing conditions and climate.

This book addresses the threats that hamper the achievement of sustainable soil management: soil erosion by water and wind, soil organic carbon loss, nutrient imbalance, salinization, contamination, acidification, loss of soil biodiversity, surface sealing, compaction and water logging.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book examines the various issues and concerns faced by Indian agriculture under the obligations of WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

In this monograph, the core elements of multidisciplinary bioremediation practices are addressed and environmental pollutants which can be effectively remediated using weeds is focused upon.

This book, Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management, is a comprehensive guide designed to explore the various facets of integrating machine learning into agricultural practices.

Pesticides are now accepted as an integral part of modern agricultural production.

This book introduces the highly topical issue from many different angles, sensitizing readers to the various challenges to human life posed by climate change, identifying possible intentional and inadvertent anthropogenic factors and consequences, and seeking socially and environmentally viable solutions.

This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable.

This book highlights the production of green composites from various sustainable raw materials.

Plant breeding has played a significant role in the development of human civilizations.

Following the successful first edition, this revised and greatly expanded edition Tomato Diseases: Identification, Biology and Control is the definitive work on the diseases and disorders of the tomato.

Estimating evapotranspiration (ET) has been one of the most critical research areas in agriculture because of water scarcity, the growing population, and climate change.

This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption.

This book is devoted to sewage sludge, its sustainable management, and its use and implications on soil fertility and crop production.

This book informs about knowledge gain in soil and land degradation to reduce or prevent it for meeting the mission of the Sustainable Developments Goals of the United Nations.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture.

This new edition is completely revamped and reorganized to reflect the change in standards and regulations and to include all new topics related to organizational sustainability and risk management.

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues.

This book presents an important discussion on land tenure rights for the effective implementation of sustainable soil management provisions.

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.

This volume addresses the situation of water and wastewater management from a global angle, underpinned by selected case studies.

This book investigates the role of climate-induced innovation and climate change mitigation technologies in reducing the negative impact of climate change.

This book compiles the relevant information related to genome editing tools and their roles in crop improvement.

This book examines different innovations in worldwide agricultural-systems including the applications of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and features of machine learning (ML) for the benefits of the farm-community.

The present work covers many aspects of plant nematode management using organic strategies.

New ways to improve cereal crops against fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases are covered in this book that was put together by a group of experts.

This book is developed in a lucid manner for readers to grasp information about the role and potential of microbes in sustainable agriculture & computational strategies associated with it.