Agriculture & Farming

Different phases of fruit development and utilization have been treated in many textbooks, reviews, and a host of scientific and professional paper...

This volume describes in detail methods of control and related data including (1) all vegetation on industrial sites, paved highways, and railroad ...

This two-volume reference presents a series of review and research articles on advances in computing, marine physics, and remote sensing and addres...

Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and...

This book presents a concise amount of useful information about a wide variety of tropical food crops. It helps the reader judge which particular c...

Target Sites of Fungicide Action presents a critical examination of the mode of action of antifungal inhibitors, especially the mechanistical aspec...

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...

Originally published in 1990, Onions and Allied Crops, is a comprehensive account of the edible allium, examined across three volumes. The collecti...

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...

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryThe various species of new world blackbirds, often intermingled...

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...

Based on over 2,500 specimens representing all the species of Leptinotarsa in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book includes studies on ...

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

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of...

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...

This title was first published in 2003.The public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and service...

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

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book ta...

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

The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, so U.S. policies have big effects o...

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...

Written by three of the top professionals in the turfgrass field, Managing Turfgrass Pests, Second Edition brings together hundreds of solutions an...

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resour...

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...

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recogniz...

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 book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United Sta...

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...

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term succession...

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, ...

First published in 2001. This highly readable and comprehensive overview of psychophysiology provides information regarding the anatomy and physiol...