Agriculture & Farming

Drawing on political economy and economic pluralism, this book explores issues in sustainable economic development from a macro perspective.In cont...

A volume in the Remote Sensing Handbook series, Remotely Sensed Data Characterization, Classification, and Accuracies documents the scientific and ...

For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearin...

Readers will find in this book a comprehensive text on the intersection of genetic and agriculture, addressing the different levels at which DNA is...

The Third Edition of Acoustics of Wood offers a comprehensive overview of advanced acoustical techniques for wood characterization and assessment. ...

In recent years, the pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment has emerged as a pressing global concern. As we grapple with the comple...

This book provides the administrator with a basic reference for assessing the stage of development of the seed program, identifying needs, developi...

This book explores the resource and environmental constraints on sustainable growth in agricultural production into the middle of the twenty-first ...

This textbook provides an introduction to the socioeconomics of food. Aimed mostly at students of economics and related social sciences, it explain...

This first detailed ethnographic account of the Pahang Malay people of peninsular Malaysia focuses on the society's traditional agricultural system...

Most scientists and many of the world's farmers have abandoned traditional farming practices and systems in an effort to increase production and to...

Sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., is the seventh most important food crop world-wide. Of all root and tuber crops, it is second in importanc...

Interested in keeping bees in a way that's beneficial for both you and the bees? Experienced but dissatisfied with commercial beekeeping, chemical ...

Restoration of agricultural ecosystems involves a concerted effort to revive and sustainably manage soil health, nutrient cycles, and carbon dynami...

There has been a surge in critical situations threatening human welfare during the last decade such as malnutrition, agricultural productivity, vir...

This book highlights some agriculturally important plants and their associated arthropod complexes with a biological, as well as an agricultural, p...

Tropical root cropsbasic staples for millions of peopleare highly perishable, and tremendous losses occur after harvest because of the lack of stor...

Over the last twenty-five years, a healthy international business has developed in isolated soy protein food ingredients. Today, isolated soy prote...

Funny and heartwarming stories from a Northland country vet In the rolling green hills of Kaipara, Scottish vet Rory Dean and his two fox terriers,...

This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associa...

This book, Smart Agriculture: Harnessing Machine Learning for Crop Management, is a comprehensive guide designed to explore the various facets of i...

Endlessly fascinating, unpretentiously educational, thoughtfully accessible and beautifully presented - Alex Tattersall, award-winning underwater p...