Agriculture and farming

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West.

This volume seeks a better understanding of the issues and options involved in the generation and transfer of technology to poor small farmers.

The 1984 International Stockmen's School Handbooks include more than 200 technical papers presented at this year's Stockmen's School, sponsored by Winrock International.

The greatest challenge of our time is to produce sufficient food ot keep pace with the rapidly growing population.

Climate Change and Plants: Biodiversity, Growth and Interactions Evidence is raised daily of the varying climate and its impression on both plants and animals.

Chitosan in the Preservation of Agricultural Commodities presents a cohesive overview of research topics regarding the production and characterization of chitosan, the development of coatings and fi lms, its functional properties, and antimicrobial potential of this compound on economically important agricultural commodities.

Landscape architects, design professionals and contractors alike require a good working knowledge of how to achieve plant establishment under a variety of conditions and situations.

“This well-illustrated case study .

Though video systems are now growing ever more accessible, and practical video work is undertaken at every level of education, this is the first book-length historical and theoretical study of the medium.

Livestock development over the past three decades has been mainly directed towards satisfying the rapidly increasing demand for milk, meat and eggs in the urban centers.

The only single-source reference on the science of olives and olive oil nutrition and health benefits Olives and Olive Oil as Functional Foods is the first comprehensive reference on the science of olives and olive oil.

Forest wildlife conservation is critically required in many parts of the world today.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

This proceedings volume contains the invited and a selection of the contributed papers of the 8th International Workshop on Sulfur Metabolism in Higher Plants, which was held at Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Water Street, Creswick, Victoria 3363, Australia from November 22-27, 2010.

Comprehensive text on the fundamentals of modeling flow and sediment transport in rivers treating both physical principles and numerical methods for various degrees of complexity.

The research that has culminated in the pUblication being introduced .

This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Toward Sustainability recommends a design for a new Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) for the U.

Understand the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the development of forest plantationsand the conservation involvedControversy surrounds the question of how to best protect forests of high conservation value, while meeting the growing demands for wood and wood fiber-based products.

CHOICE Highly recommended 2020Insects are key components of life on our planet, and their presence is essential for maintaining balanced terrestrial ecosystems.

This edited volume reviews 20 years' worth of research under the European Landscape Convention.

The Stud Managers' Handbook includes presentations made at the International Stockmen's School, January 2-6, 1983.

In the last few decades, Brazilian agriculture has experienced a seismic transformation, and its contradictory facets have fed different and opposing narratives regarding recent changes.

Advances in Food Research

Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions.

Over the past few years, it has become more and more obvious that fish farming will become increasingly important in the future.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world.

Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD, graduate and Under Graduate level students in universities and colleges analysing the legal framework, strategies in waste management, circular economy adoption, use of mathematical and statistical modelling in setting waste management strategies, sanitation and Hygiene in waste management.

This book was written by soybean experts to cluster in a single publication the most relevant and modern topics in soybean breeding.

A comprehensive study of pond fisheries.

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

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About 20 per cent of the world's total population is residing in the mountains and this proportion is likely to increase in the present century as environmental degradation and pollution is driving the human population for settlement in the clean and serene environment of the mountains.

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of the new knowledge gained to improve the productivity of agricultural crops, as also to enhance their resistance to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses.

Concise yet thorough look at hydraulics and hydraulic engineering.

Plant Nematode Biopesticides presents the most current knowledge on various categories of biopesticides used in the management of nematode pests of crops or those that have significant potential as biological control agents.

The Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is proud to have initiated and sponsored the International Workshop "e;Soil and Aquifer Pollution: Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids - Contamination and Recla- tion"e;, held May 13th-15th, 1996, on the Technion campus in Haifa.

Farm level models have been widely used in agricultural economic studies.

Although the physiology of the menstrual cycle appears clear and easily explained by a balance in the concentration of various sex steroid hormones, numerous details of its mechanism are still poorly understood and little is known about the relationship among clinical events, plasma hormone concentrations, molecular impacts on target tissues and their regulation.

This book is aimed at a wide range of readers who lack confidence in the mathematical and statistical sciences, particularly in the fields of Agriculture, Veterinary, Fishery, Dairy and other related areas.

The book examines basic areas of marine research, subjects of special and topical importance; and new areas as they arise.