Agricultural Science

This book disseminates various long-term data and research results from university forests in Asia towards realizing adaptive forest management and...

Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the worlds attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions o...

WITH A FOREWORD FROM TIM SPECTOR, author of The Diet Myth, Spoon-Fed and Food for Life A pioneering approach. ANNA JONES, cook and bestselling aut...

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions,...

This book emphasizes how we already have the technologies available, including renewable energy and the ability to recycle most materials, to make ...

Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natura...

The volume on oilseed crops is developed as a part of a series on Handbook of Agrobiodiversity: Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources. It...

Thirty-eight pesticides were evaluated for toxicity and residues at the 2017 Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Foo...

This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, an...

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood. It highlights the role of...

This handbook covers both principal and applications aspects of hydroponics. This reference book shows the state-of-the-art in this area, while off...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford ch...

This is a open access book. In the agriculture sector, the language of gender integration often ignores the politics and the power dynamics that ar...

The book discusses nano-phytoremediation: the use of nanotechnology in combination with phytoremediation to restore polluted environs. The potentia...

Phytoremediation is the process that uses plants to remove pollutants from soils. These pollutants are stored in the edible parts of plants and, if...

This book delves into the specific subject area of life sciences, focusing on the remarkable world of millets and their multifaceted contributions....

Soil biota is an important and fundamental part of terrestrial ecology. The soil organisms include all those life forms which pass significant prop...

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference for agricultural mobile robots, covering all aspects of the design process, from sensing ...

This open access book analyzes the regulation and governance of gene editing in the global agrifood system as applications of gene editing, regulat...

Capitalist agriculture relies heavily on the pollination work of bees, but this system harms bees in innumerable ways. Indeed, human agriculture is...

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system. It covers increasing concerns...

This book will focus on microbial services as an excellent strategy to face the current challenge of global agriculture, collecting the principal s...

This book presents a groundbreaking critique of neo-liberal interpretations of global agricultural development, challenging dominant narratives wit...

This book collects transforming technologies in smart agriculture and their applications during the past decade. It focuses on the latest sensing a...