Agricultural science

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context.

Wie reagieren Pflanzen auf Umwelteinflüsse?

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

Biochar Production for Green Economy: Agricultural and Environmental Perspectives addresses the advancements and developments for the efficient diversification of biochar toward achieving improved agricultural and environmental benefits.

Today, nutrition is mainly discussed under nutritional, medical-health or ideological aspects (e.

This book analyzes the issue of food insecurity in Europe.

This book derives an explicit analytical pattern (or framework) that permits the examination and optimization of biogas production systems.

This holistic guide brings rabbit production science and medicine together.

This book shows how the use of biodegradable plastics in agriculture can have a profound positive impact on plasticulture.

The volumes that comprise Chemical Sensitivity are the first major scientific books to be published on chemical sensitivity, a growing world-wide health problem.

Erster und bisher einziger steuerlicher Ratgeber für die aktuell etwa 2 Millionen Eigentümer von Privatwäldern in Deutschland: Privater Waldbesitz erfreut sich immer größerer Beliebtheit; das Thema Wald ist derzeit stark im Fokus.

In diesem essential beschreibt Jan-Uwe Schmidt, wie durch Kiebitzinseln nicht nur dem Kiebitz geholfen wird, sondern auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten profitieren können.

Bettina Heberer gibt interessierten Laien einen Einblick in die grüne Gentechnik.

Die Zellen eines jeden Lebewesens enthalten die Erbinformation in Form von DNA, auch Genom genannt, welche zu einem Großteil Aussehen und Funktion eines Organismus bestimmt.

This book highlights the latest advances made in the niche area of Reactive Oxygen Species and Redox processes in plants.

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

The main objective of this book is to present the distribution and diversity of major soil types in Serbia.

This book reviews the potential mechanisms in arbuscular mycorrhizas (AMs), in the hope that this can help arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to be more used efficiently as a biostimulant to enhance stress tolerance in the host plants.

The book discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture, forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of the selected invasive species.

This volume highlights important links existing between soils and human health which up to now are not fully realized by the public.

In this new volume in the World Soil series, the various types of Icelandic soils, their different characteristics, their formation, degradation and erosion are reviewed.

The book offers an integrated overview of plant-pathogen interactions.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

El tomate es una de las hortalizas de mayor consumo en Colombia, y, por lo tanto, también es uno de los productos hortícolas con mayor área cultivada.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This volume in the series is devoted to Africa, a continent that possesses a vast treasure of medicinal plants and has produced some exclusive materials for the world market.

This book links tropical agri-chain dynamics - with which CIRAD and AFD have been involved for decades - to that of sustainable development.

The methodologies and technologies adaptable to process chemistry are the focus of this unique book, as new catalysts, reactions, and methods for the synthesis of functional materials are dealt with in depth for the first time.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This book presents comprehensive hazard analysis methods for seismic soil liquefaction, providing an update on soil liquefaction by systematically reviewing the phenomenon's occurrence since the beginning of this century.

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

This book outlines a new paradigm, "e;Agro-ecological Intensification of Crop Protection"e;, which reduces negative impacts on the environment and enhances the provision of ecosystem services.

The book is only of its kind in the discipline of Agricultural and Food Engineering.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 'Forum "e;Math-for-Industry"e; 2016 ' (FMfl2016), held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, on November 21-23, 2016.

Agriculture is the science or occupation of cultivating land and rearing crops and livestock.

This book comprehensively introduces stripe rust disease, its development and its integral control.

The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity.

This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.

This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.

This book presents an exhaustive overview of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of biocontrol in agriculture.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.