Agriculture and farming

This book provides the most recent understanding about climate change and its effects on agriculture in India.

This book provides relevant findings on nanoparticles' toxicity, their uptake, translocation and mechanisms of interaction with plants at cellular and sub-cellular level.

The population explosion that began in the 1960s has been accompanied by a decrease in the quality of the natural environment, e.

Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions.

This conference proceedings volume presents advanced methods in time series estimation models that are applicable various areas of applied economic research such as international economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance economics and agricultural economics.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book focuses on the recent advances in precision agriculture and satellite farming, detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling, and control.

 This book discusses different aspects of contamination in Indian food products.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

This work is to compile our current knowledge on GY phytoplasma biology at the genomic, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics level, as well as to summarize the approaches for their detection.

Medicinal flora plays an important role in health care systems across the world.

This volume is of interest to practical engineers.

There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face.

The importance of a complementary approach to animal health is highlighted in this book, with core themes encompassing reviews of traditional veterinary medicine for common diseases afflicting livestock, as well as local practices in different areas of the world.

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food.

This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi's main industry, tobacco.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model.

This book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension.

This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent.

This book provides an essential update on the startling array of novel insecticidal toxins and drugs produced by the fascinating bacterium Photorhabdus.

This book is about applications of remote sensing techniques in the studies on soils.

This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.

This volume presents a reconstruction of the formation of the environmental conditions and biota in the present-day Baltic Sea area during the last glacial cycle and thereafter under the influence of extra-terrestrial, climatic and geological factors.

This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings.

This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the status and dynamics of people participating in the small-scale fisheries (SSF) of Europe.

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

This book provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development based on three analytical pillars.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

This book presents a diverse range of recent operational research techniques that have been applied to agriculture and tourism management.

This book reveals the benefits of describing and modeling trees as the combined surface areas of their stems, and provides a concise overview of the fundamental grounds for adopting such an approach.

The aim of this book is to systematize and discuss population genetic studies of freshwater fish in a region that harbors the greatest diversity of species among all inland water ecosystems.

This book reviews the application of nanosensors in food and agriculture.

This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land.

This book discusses how future landscapes will be shaped by pervasive change and where, when, and how society should manage landscapes for change.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce.

This book is the first to present in a systematic manner the application of game theory to fisheries management at both international and national levels.

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution.

Fruits of the Brazilian Cerrado: Composition and Functional Benefits describes the nutritional, chemical and physical characteristics of the fruits of the Cerrado, as well as their pharmacological effects and use in phytotherapics.

This comprehensive textbook provides detailed information on calving management in dairy and beef cattle.

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa.

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influences on human health, handling and management of biomedical waste.

This book presents the soil pedodiversity in Libya.

Internet of things (IoT) is a new type of network that combines communication technology, expanded applications, and physical devices.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.