Agriculture & Farming

This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving Cordyceps sinensis, a rare species of fungus largely grown in Tibet, curre...

Plant-Forward Cuisine is a beautifully illustrated book that promotes the environmental and health benefits of a plant-forward diet and will inspir...

This new edition is completely revamped and reorganized to reflect the change in standards and regulations and to include all new topics related to...

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. ...

This book develops organizing eating as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an...

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Centr...

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territorie...

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-ur...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (2024 nt), single stranded, regulatory RNA molecules or gene regulators of critical transcriptional or post-transcript...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

This book examines Africas current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.Africa is on the rise and by...

The book entitled Nanophytopathology discusses the need for alternative technologies particularly smart nanotechnological tools including nanobiose...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolfs celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management...

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethn...

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state...

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc. pose a threat to food security to unprecedented levels. It has f...

Artificial intelligence and the use of computational methods to extract information from data are providing adequate tools to monitor and predict w...

While the importance of food to health and well-being is clear, the specific ways in which food systems contribute to individual and community heal...

This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional inform...

This book comprehensively explores various aspects of food waste management, ranging from understanding the issue to innovative solutions that conv...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

This book explores the role of nanofertilizers in sustainable and efficient agricultural practices of the 21st century. It covers the various aspec...