Agricultural Science

It has been the goal in this volume to summarize the current level of understanding in a number of areas relating to sweet potato production and ut...

The use of chemicals in agriculture and home gardens has become an area of concern due to improper use and negative environmental effects. Environm...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregul...

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal ...

Published in 1932: The author in his Britain's Trade and Agriculture, though almost ruthlessly exposes the fallacies that lie behind the modern acc...

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and ...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

The development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been a contentious topic for the last three decades. While there have been a n...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

The use of organic management practices in field cropping continues to rise globally, and these methods have proven to be a viable way to produce f...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

First published 1983. Aimed at improving agricultural production by providing a better under· standing of the interaction between crops and the env...

The discussion about energy perspectives beyond 2020, up to 2030 and eventually 2050 has started. There seems to be a verbal consensus on the neces...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to success...

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the import...

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been com...

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental de...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship betw...

International institutions and agencies from the Global North are no longer the sole initiators of development norms and best practices. The prolif...

This book is a celebration of the humble gudgeon, the angler's favourite 'tiddler'. This much-loved little fish is long overdue a little book all o...

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges ...

First Published in 1986, this book explores the application of Selection Indices in the process of plant breeding. Carefully compiled and filled wi...

Published in 1995: This book is not designed as a culture manual for herbivorous fishes, but the reader is directed to other sources. This book sho...

Explore the inner workings of environmental processes using a mathematical approach. Environmental Systems Analysis with MATLAB® combines environme...

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban gro...

Contaminants and Clean Technologies provides valuable information on environmental contaminants such as industrial pollutants, micropollutants, pes...

Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials. Bioremed...

The small grain cereals wheat, barley, oats and rye are cultivated worldwide. They form the foundation of most agricultural systems and are essenti...

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety...

This book is an outcome of the conference on International Finance and Agricultural Trade in San Antonio, in 1988. Events such as the twin budget a...

This book focuses on current food shortages and on the impact of pests in reducing world food supplies. At present, total worldwide food losses fro...

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion on the development of herbicide resistance during the past 50 years, emphasizing the bio...

Improvement of the world's livestock industry necessitates input from many directions. Planning by a host of national and international agencies is...

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly re...

More than 20 years after the ban of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides, pesticides continue to be detected in air, rain, soil, surface water, ...

In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the growing of crops for use in bioenergy production rather than for food. This has been parti...

Due to their often small size and unique physical characteristics, birds can deteriorate rapidly in the event of illness and injury. Timely interve...

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international lea...

Our understanding of the physiological function of insect essential lipids has long been flawed by major uncertainties. It was discovered long ago ...

With the sharp rise in petroleum prices over the past decade, interest has grown in the possible use of plant and tree seed oils as diesel fuel sub...

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest front...