Agricultural science

With contributions from a broad range of leading professors and scientists, this volume focuses on new areas of processing technologies in foods and plants to help meet the increasing food demand of the rapidly growing populations of the world.

Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice.

Microbiome-Based Decontamination of Environmental Pollutants explores the complex interactions of plant-associated microbiomes, providing insights into the pressing challenges of managing environmental resources such as soil, water, and waste.

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge.

Peanut, an amphidiploid, is an important food and oil crop and has an interesting evolutionary history.

Participatory research has emerged as an approach to producing knowledge that is sufficiently grounded in local needs and realities to support community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and it is often touted as crucial to the sustainable management of forests and other natural resources.

The adverse affects of pesticides and other toxic deterrents on the environment and human health are causing researchers to investigate biological methods for controlling arthropods - flies and mites - which negatively affect livestock and poultry.

The current scenario of increasing sensitivity towards the sustainable agriculture has given a large space to extensively utilize natural resources that are environmental friendly and are a good replacement of chemicals in agriculture.

This book uses digital technologies for the sustainable development and productivity of the agricultural sector.

This book reviews interagency research and development of classical (importation) biological control of Bemisia tabaci (biotype B) conducted in the USA from 1992- 2002.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

The world's population continues to grow year after year, putting pressure on all global resources.

Agricultural, natural resource, and environmental problems are becom- ing increasingly interdependent.

In recent years, consumers have become increasingly interested not just in price and quality but in where and how food is produced.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Drawing from a decade-long collaboration between Japan and Russia, this important volume presents the first major synthesis of current knowledge on the ecophysiology of the coniferous forests growing on permafrost at high latitudes.

This book is the first to systematically explore experimental erosion by integrating theory, erosion observations, and conservation applications.

Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia.

Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret.

This book illustrates the currently available strategies for managing phytonematodes.

Biometry for Forestry and Environmental Data with Examples in R focuses on statistical methods that are widely applicable in forestry and environmental sciences, but it also includes material that is of wider interest.

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of agricultural development in independent India.

The genesis of the volume, Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Markers, has been the occasion of the retirement of Professor Sant Saran Bhojwani from the Department of Botany, University of Delhi.

Foregrounding an innovative and radical perspective on food planning, this book makes the case for an agroecological urbanism in which food is a key component in the reinvention of new and just social arrangements and ecological practices.

This book provides a snapshot on economic thinking about global change and provides a starting point for researchers for evaluating the economics of global change in the context of agriculture, forestry, and resource issues.

A knowledge of clay is important in many spheres of scientific endeav- our, particularly in natural sciences such as geology, mineralogy and soil science, but also in more applied areas like environmental and mater- ials science.

Food scarcity and insecurity is an alarming issue throughout the world.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This edited book collates latest findings in the field of agro-biodiversity and agri-ecosystem management across the globe through selected case studies.

Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover.

These exciting new companion handbooks are the only ones of their kind devoted solely to the effects of environmental variables on the physiology of the world's major fruit and nut crops.

Das vollständige deutschsprachige Werk zum Thema Abfall, das alle Fragen der Umweltbeauftragten auf kommunaler Ebene beantwortet.

Oilseed brassicas are among the largest traded agricultural commodities and are grown in around fifty countries worldwide.

This book reviews up-to-date knowledge on the biology and aquaculture of tilapia, with special focus on the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of knowledge on teak biology, ecology, clonal forestry, clonal registration, seed biology, and seed orchards.

This book presents biotechnological advances and approaches to improving the nutritional value of agri-foods.

The Digital Age in Agriculture presents information related to the digital age in the agriculture sector.

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This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.

Arsenic has been said to be one of the world's most toxic elements, infiltrating the food chain and finding its way into foods.

Food and agriculture is an important component in the development and survival of civilizations.

Rising concerns about agricultural productivity and food security in rapidly changing economic and environmental contexts have led to renewed interest in agricultural development.

Agriculture plays a vital role in our lives, providing food and economic benefits.

This book reviews recent research and applications, developments, research trends, methods and issues related to the applications of industrial hemp for fundamental research and technology.

As with the first edition, the main goal of Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing is to provide the reader with recent developments in new advanced technologies for the full meat- processing chain.

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union.

This book encompasses updated information as well as future directions for researchers working in the fields of environmental science, water resource engineering, and agricultural science.