Agriculture and farming

The demand for organic foods has been expanding at a steady rate, and during the COVID-19 epidemic, it increased even further, as consumers regarded these foods as healthier and better for immunity than conventional foods.

Biology Trending is a truly innovative introductory biology text.

Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments.

This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms.

This 5-volume set allows you to assess the health and environmental effects of chemicals by determining the routes of exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms.

The demand for organic foods has been expanding at a steady rate, and during the COVID-19 epidemic, it increased even further, as consumers regarded these foods as healthier and better for immunity than conventional foods.

Modern tree fruit orchards and vineyards constitute complex production systems that are exposed to highly dynamic and stochastic natural, financial and societal forces, and face demands for increased production using fewer resources, with reduced environmental impact.

Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between microbial symbionts and plants in the era of climate change.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

Food Security and Nutrition: Utilizing Undervalued Food Plants explores the potential of underutilized and indigenous food plants to enhance food and nutrition security amid global challenges, such as climate change, water scarcity, and population growth.

This book serves as an essential guide for understanding the full potential of this remarkable plant.

The book is an attempt to examine the phenomena of community participation, sustainable forest management and sustainable development with reference to the forest policies, forest acts and other relevant documents of different countries.

Processing Technologies and Food Protein Digestion covers the effect of all the applied and emerging processing technologies, both thermal and non-thermal, on the digestion of food proteins derived from egg, milk, meat, plants, cereals, fish and seafood.

Unknown to most people, there are innumerable microbial species that accomplish vital ecosystem functions while residing in a suspended state in the troposphere or resting on crop canopies.

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

Aphids Unveiled: The Saga of Nature's Most Irritating Insects explores the curious journey of these tiny insects from humble beginnings to becoming the most obnoxious pests for farmers and home gardeners alike.

Discover the joy of growing and using plants indoors and outdoors, no matter how limited your space.

This book highlights the latest findings and techniques related to nutrition and feed efficiency in animal agriculture.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

An accessible and comprehensive guide, filled with everything you need to set up your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently.

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics.

Essential Oils: Extraction, Characterization and Applications covers sixteen essential oils from different herbal and aromatic plants, including production, composition and extraction techniques such as distillation, chemistry and properties, characterization and applications.

This book titled, Crop, Fruit and Vegetable Production and Products, provides readers with an introduction to crops, agriculture and crop typology.

An accessible and comprehensive guide, filled with everything you need to set up your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently.

First Published in 2002.

This new book merges the concepts of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and intellectualproperty rights associated with plant protection and agricultural products.

Broadly-speaking, biotechnology is any technique that uses living organisms or substances from these organisms to make or modify a product for a practical purpose.

First Published in 2002.

This book presents the latest findings in the areas of digital ecosystem for innovation in agriculture.

Bamboo is one of the most sustainable materials in nature due to its fast growth, rapid regeneration, outstanding mechanical properties, and applications in numerous industries.

This book focuses on the latest developments in endophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their role in sustainable agriculture.

This book presents a newly designed dynamic fluidic sprinkler (DFS) to improve hydraulic performance of the existing complete fluidic sprinkler (CFS) under low-pressure conditions.

In 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the "e;it bird"e; and heralded "e;the return of the backyard chicken.

This contributed volume, based on papers presented at a conference held in Zimbabwe in mid-2021, interrogates solutions to COVID-19-related problems and issues across agricultural, environmental and water sectors in Zimbabwe and assesses their scientific, economic and practical validity.

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China.

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles.

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This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa.

This book describes how models are used to monitor crops and soils in precision agriculture, and how they are used to support farmers' decisions.

The book provides an overview relevant to various biological mechanisms that regulate carbon exchanges between the major components and their response to climate change.

Global food production and climate change among other concerns are societal issues that require major research input from crop science.

This volume presents a comprehensive description of forests of the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

This book explains the best practices and their respective outcomes in artificial intelligence (AI) to meet sustainable development goals and demands.

This book focuses on case studies from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and the USA in various ground improvement projects.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 117, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

Coastal Habitat Conservation: New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene offers the latest research and approaches to biodiversity conservation in coastal areas.

This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya's agricultural sector.