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...