Agriculture and farming

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.

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession The old aphorism "e;possession is nine-tenths of the law"e; is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims.

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.

Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food explores future food crops with climate resilience potential.

What is the business configurations in agribusiness system?

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 175, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

The Perfect Puppy: Breed Selection and Care by Veterinary Science for Behavior and Neutering Age provides the most updated and expert knowledge on dog breeds to guide the selection of a puppy or mature dog.

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.

Brewing with Hemp: The Essential Guide explores the Cannabis sativa plant from a brewer’s perspective.

Chapters outline up-to-date strategies regarding breeding, chemical and biological control, cultural and environmental manipulation, diagnosis, nutrition, and sanitation and how these approaches directly influence ornamental plant health.

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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.

Rhizosphere Engineering is a guide to applying environmentally sound agronomic practices to improve crop yield while also protecting soil resources.

The third edition of Insect Resistance Management: Biology, Economics, and Prediction expands coverage by including three new chapters on African agriculture, genetic control of pests, and fitness costs of resistance.

In spite of all the efforts, the population of India is increasing day by day.

The Veterinarian's Guide to Animal Welfare provides an overview of various aspects of animal welfare that are particularly relative to the veterinary profession.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 173, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field, with each chapter written by an international board of authors.

Biopesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

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.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This newly updated and revised volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) details the role of Animal Breeding and Genetics in the sustainability of animal 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 focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

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.

Plant secondary metabolites are plant-based natural products that display a variety of pharmacological effects.

This book reviews the sources, extraction, processing and applications of value-added compounds from agro-waste, with a focus on drug delivery, tea, apple pomace, lignin nanocomposites, bioethanol, fertilizers and sitosterol.

The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby's celebrated book - The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.

This book deals with the in-depth study of sustainability issues in the agri-food sector.

This book has 11 chapters which systematically introduce the latest achievements in scientific research and technological application of the forage industry in China, and also cover the laws and polices related to forage production.

Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals: Conventional and Molecular Breeding reviews the most recent developments in the fields of cereal and pseudocereal breeding, with particular emphasis on the latest biotechnological techniques likely to lead to breakthrough changes in plant breeding.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

Nanobiotechnology for the Livestock Industry: Animal Health and Nutrition delivers a multidisciplinary reference of nanobiotechnology applications in various sectors, including farming practices, healthcare and breeding practices, market and economic analysis/benefits, biosafety, regulation, and more.

This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan's award-winning "e;Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!

This book discusses problems, challenges, and mitigation strategies in the wake of environmental degradation.

This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment.