Agricultural science

This book is a compilation of writings focused on conventional and unconventional insect products.

The book addresses current public concern about the adverse effect of agrochemicals and their effect on the agro-ecosystem.

This book outlines a new paradigm, Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production (SICP), which aims to produce more from the same area of land by increasing efficiency, reducing waste, conserving resources, reducing negative impacts on the environment and enhancing the provision of ecosystem services.

The main focus of this book is to survey the current status of research, development and use of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asian countries and develop a strategy for addressing critical issues various policy constraints due to which bio-pesticides have found limited applications.

This book showcases a compilation of case studies presented by scientists, teachers and academics and covers contemporary technologies for combating climate change, including sustainable agricultural management practices and conservation agriculture.

This book describes selected microbial genera from the perspective of their environmentally and commercially sustainable use.

This eye-opening book focuses on the development of techniques to mass-produce reduviid predators and important generalist predators, an endeavor that won't prove sufficient if the cost of commercialization is prohibitive.

This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries' efforts to address the challenges of food security.

This book focuses on light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, mainly for the commercial production of horticultural crops in plant factories and greenhouses with controlled environments, giving special attention to: 1) plant growth and development as affected by the light environment; and 2) business and technological opportunities and challenges with regard to LEDs.

This book serves the larger community of plant researchers working on the taxonomy, species delimitation, phylogeny, and biogeography of pseudo-cereals, with a special emphasis on amaranths.

Biotechnology can bring major breakthroughs in agriculture.

This book uses sound theoretical frameworks and econometric techniques to rigorously analyze and explain the conditions of sustainable growth in agriculture.

This book provides biological and agricultural insights into snow mold, a fungal disease affecting land plants observed after the melting of snow.

Global yields of legumes have been relatively stagnant for the last five decades, despite the adoption of conventional and molecular breeding approaches.

This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.

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With exponentially increasing population across the globe and shrinking resources, the concern of food security is looming large over the world community.

This book deals with the various aspects viz.

 En el sector productivo cada vez es más común que propietarios o arrendatarios de tierras de mediana y pequeña extensión busquen el acompañamiento de un profesional del sector agrario para el establecimiento y desarrollo de proyectos agroempresariales.

Este es el segundo libro de una trilogía dedicada a los procesos agroecológicos, al reconocimiento de la agricultura campesina familiar y comunitaria y a las formas dignas de coexistencia que desde allí se tejen en Colombia.

The elapsing time from producer to consumer has significantly increased as a result of food marketing and trade globalization.

A crucial reference/textbook that provides a wide spectrum of information in one easily understandable sourceThe essence of agroecology lies in harnessing and harmonizing the forces of nature for productive purpose.

El cafe ha significado para Colombia desarrollo economico y social, reconocimiento internacional y avances tecnologicos.

El libro Conservacion, almacenamiento y alteraciones del huevo registra los hechos mas importantes de la historia de la avicultura en Colombia y el mundo.

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.

¿Se ha preguntado cuánto cadmio tenía la última chocolatina que se comió?

Los sistemas productivos agropecuarios impactan de manera local, rural, regional y global.

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

The second edition of this extensive work is the definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important area of food and agricultural ethics.

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

In this unique book, Michel Thellier has combined recent discoveries with older data dealing with plant memory and its potential role on plant acclimatization to environment stimuli.

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

Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time.

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

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

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

It is an edited book with chapters written by multi-disciplinary specialists in their specific subject areas.

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

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 has been designed as a methodological guide and shows the interests and limitations of different statistical methods to analyze data from experimental networks and to perform meta-analyses.

This book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world.

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

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

This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization).

This compendium reviews different processes acting on bacterial groups that evolved one or more relationships with members of the most important invertebrate Phyla.

Recent progress in biotechnology and genomics has expanded the plant breeders' horizon providing a molecular platform on the traditional plant breeding, which is now known as 'plant molecular breeding'.

This book mainly presents the current state of knowledge on the use of of Silicon (Si) in agriculture, including plants, soils and fertilizers.