Agricultural science

Biotic stresses cause yield loss of 31-42% in crops in addition to 6-20% during post-harvest stage.

The cropping system is one of the important components of sustainable agriculture, since it provides more efficient nutrient cycling.

Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world.

This book paints a wide canvas of the immense global economic potential of ten most important cash generating crops spread over Asia, Africa and Latin America, namely, Arecanut, Cashew Nut, Coconut, Cinchona, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Oil Palm, Rubber and Wattle.

Biotechnology refers to the use or manipulation of an organism or parts of an organism.

The 1985 Research Conference on Fire Ants and Leaf-Cutting Ants covered the most recent developments in research and control of these insect pests of the New World tropical and subtropical zones, the southern United States, South and Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s.

This book presents an exploration of linkages among soil-water, agriculture, and climate change with a special focus on thematic areas for assessment, mitigation, and management of natural resources under climate change conditions.

The Handbook provides a supporting guide to key aspects and applications of landscape ecology to underpin its research and teaching.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

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This book contributes to the on-going debates on climate change by focusing on the SDGs and exploring linkages between environmental change and food security as well as the relevance and need to consider the management of natural resources, especially water, soil and forest.

Molecular Host Plant Resistance to Pests examines environmentally safe and integrated techniques for effective pest management.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

This Fourth Edition of Principles of Seed Science and Technology, like the fIrst three editions, is written for the advanced undergraduate student or lay person who desires an introduction to the science and technology of seeds.

Irrigated agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water use.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable and smart agriculture, as presented by leading  researchers at the XII Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture (FMPMSA), held in Lublin, Poland, on June 12-14, 2024.

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia's rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

Problems of joint application of heterogeneous ground and air robotic means while performing the agricultural technological tasks that require physical interaction with agricultural products and the environment are discussed in the book.

This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.

This book examines the characteristics and opportunities for farm energy in the northeast quadrant of the United States, with attention to energy use, strategic energy management, and energy production by solar, wind, biomass, and other means.

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environ- mental management.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework.

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

This book examines the dynamics in capital flows, credit markets and growth in South Africa.

In 1980, the International Symposium on the Ecology of Bruchids Attacking Legumes (Pulses), organized by Dr.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

First published in 1981.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This edited book covers the applications of molecular markers in the genetic improvement of crop plants.

This book focuses on agricultural waste treatment and renewable energy production from the perspective of anaerobic digestion.

The idea for this book was conceived by the late Dr.

This book presents an update on the state of the art in nanobiology and various nanoparticle synthesis and characterization methods.

This book provides an up-to-date outlook on the origin, evolution, structure, genomic organization, expression, regulation and transposition mechanism of retrotransposons in the plant genome and computational tools and algorithms to analyze retrotransposons across different species, and their use as genetic tools in crop breeding and improvement.

Since the emergence of contemporary area classifications, population geography has witnessed a renaissance in the area of policy related spatial analysis.

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries.

Advances in molecular biology and genome research in the form of molecular breeding and genetic engineering put forward innovative prospects for improving productivity of many pulses crops.

Covering a wide array of topics on the status and challenges of organic farming, including production, nutrient management, plant protection, processing methods, organic production, policy issues, etc.

This volume is a collection of informative chapters on various subjects.

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

The oil palm is a remarkable crop, producing around 40% of the world's vegetable oil from around 6% of the land devoted to oil crops.

Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE) is a complex mix of policy and practicality, educational theory and pedagogy, classroom and government policy.