Agriculture & Farming

Cultural understandings of soil are diverse and often ambiguous. Cultural framing of soils is common worldwide and is highly consequential. The imp...

The agri-food industry creates a vast amount of waste each year. This is not just a problem for waste management, in terms of finding space to stor...

The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By...

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on fruit losses and waste.The first chapter reviews the magnitu...

To get to the Stewart family's remote homestead, you head south from the heart of the King Country and take a 40-minute drive into the middle of no...

This book presents the current approaches for insect pest control as a green alternative to classical and more toxaic agrochemicals. An overview of...

Authors have made remarkable efforts to balance background with basic-applied research findings enhancing the understanding of the various issues a...

This volume reviews key advances in precision agriculture technology and applications. Chapters summarise developments in monitoring techniques, in...

Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the...

These books present a comprehensive coverage of issues facing wheat production globally. The authors represent the top scientists involved in the d...

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterran...

This book provides simultaneously, a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of climate change issues in Morocco and proposes levers of action and i...

This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression....

This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient betw...

The book Eco-Restoration of the Polluted Environment: A Biological Perspective explores recent advances in biological strategies for the remediatio...

Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswel...

This handbook provides an overview on wood science and technology of unparalleled comprehensiveness and international validity. It describes the ...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health. It discusses importa...

This is an excellent overview of the latest thinking in weed management, with chapters written by some of the most prominent authorities conducting...

Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan PlateauOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese gov...

This book focuses on latest information on the biology and ecology of the three bluefin tuna species: the Pacific (Thunnus orientalis), Atlantic (T...

This book describes sustainable aquaculture ingredients and additives uncovered in Africa and Asia. It also discusses current aquaculture research ...

The book combines knowledge about salinity problems from soil science and plant science and presents an in-depth treatment of the current scientifi...