Agriculture and farming

The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book explores microbial symbiosis, with a particular focus on soil microorganisms, highlighting their application in enhancing plant growth and yield.

This book discusses bioavailability concepts and methods, summarizing the current knowledge on bioavailability science, as well as possible pathways for integrating bioavailability into risk assessment and the regulation of organic chemicals.

Of the global population of more than 7 billion people, some 800 million do not have enough to eat today.

This book presents a study of cooperatives as a two-layer entrepreneurial model, and analyzes cooperative enterprises.

Numerous solvents used in chemical processes have poisonous and unsafe properties that pose significant ecological concerns ranging from atmospheric emissions to the contamination of water effluents.

Globalization and industrialization involve a number of reactions, products, extractions, and separations that require the use of organic solvents.

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality.

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

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to.

This volume is aimed at offering an insight into the present knowledge of the vast domain of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with a focus on North America.

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

An increasing population has put tremendous pressure on agricultural productivity to fulfill the demands of human consumption.

This book describes the sequencing efforts for Neem (Azadirachta indica A.

This brief explores several adaptive agricultural practices from around the world to fulfill current and future agricultural demands for food security due to the challenges posed by climate change and growing global population.

This book explores the significance of soil microbial diversity to understand its utility in soil functions, ecosystem services, environmental sustainability, and achieving the sustainable development goals.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

This book provides an authoritative review of the origin and extraction of strontium and its impact on the environment.

This book reviews how the release of the citrus genome facilitates the investigation of ancestral species, the study of their complex biological features, and the genetic basis of agronomic traits of paramount importance for their sustainable cultivation.

The population of the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) has drastically declined; this Asian leopard subspecies has disappeared from some parts of its former range.

This book focusing on the bitter gourd genome is the first comprehensive compilation of knowledge on the botany, cytogenetical analysis, genetic resources and diversity, traditional breeding, tissue culture and genetic transformation, whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics in the Cucurbitaceae family.

This book assesses the current challenges and opportunities for the next generation of agriculture and food science.

In recent years, radioactive contamination in the environment by uranium (U) and its daughters has caused increasing concerns globally.

This book describes the consequences of an increased demand for food for human consumption for the global food industry.

This book opens a window into how two ambitious countries - India and Brazil - are seeking to become knowledge powers in the 21st century.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models, which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data sets from the population and the individual levels to estimate demographic parameters, and population size and trends.

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems.

Framed by the authors personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present.

Part documentary, part reality-television, the story of the Deadliest Catchs Alaskan crab fishermen risking their lives in the Bering Sea to make a buck and feed their families has captivated the world.

Biology Trending is a truly innovative introductory biology text.

Harnessing evolution for more sustainable agricultureAs human populations grow and resources are depleted, agriculture will need to use land, water, and other resources more efficiently and without sacrificing long-term sustainability.

A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today.

The book is comprehensive analysis of the growth pattern, development, disparities, convergence and determinants of Agriculture in Uttar Pradesh spanning over 50 years from 1960-2010, covering 35 crops and 85 districts in the state (including Uttarakhand).

Encyclopaedia of environmental air pollution which is compiled and judiciously edited in three volumes, deals with the scientific discussion of air pollution, its adverse effects on the human beings and the environment and as well as various methods of its control.

Encyclopaedia of environmental air pollution which is compiled and judiciously edited in three volumes, deals with the scientific discussion of air pollution, its adverse effects on the human beings and the environment and as well as various methods of its control.

Harness the power of permaculture to thrive, not just survive, the great transition from fossil fuels Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition-by design or disaster-away from fossil fuels to an alternative renewable energy future.

The Zen approach to mowing lawns, wacking weeds, harvesting crops, and building modern homesteader abs!

This Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science is an effort to keep pace w ith continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in various branches of science.

This Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science is an effort to keep pace w ith continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in various branches of science.

This Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science is an effort to keep pace w ith continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in various branches of science.

This Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science is an effort to keep pace w ith continuing rapid developments and expanding vocabularies in various branches of science.

Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting their eggs, or killing for their meat and/or feathers.

Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of collecting their eggs, or killing for their meat and/or feathers.

Vascular plants, also known as tracheophytes are any of various plants, such as the ferns and seed-bearing plants, in which the phloem transports sugar and the xylem transports water and salts.

In the selfing of cross-pollinated species, it is essential that the flower are bagged or otherwise protected to prevent natural cross-pollination.

Nematodes are the most numerous multi-cellular animals on earth.

The production and supply of good quality seed of high-yielding varieties is one of the most important requirements of modern agriculture and a challenge to seed technologists.