Agriculture & Farming

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...