Agriculture & Farming

Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural p...

This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural produc...

Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee ...

This comprehensive study explores the influence and organization of the Swedish farmers' movement in the 20th century. The first such study of its ...

Volume 2 covers nitrogen fertilizer efficiency, acid tolerance of the legume symbiosis, fruit tree nutrition, rhizosphere pH change, iron deficienc...

Did socialist policies leave the economies of Eastern Europe unprepared for current privatization efforts? Under communist rule, were rural village...

Did socialist policies leave the economies of Eastern Europe unprepared for current privatization efforts? Under communist rule, were rural village...

A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communi...

Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam S...

Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Indigenous people lacked either an interest in farming or an ...

Advances in underwater exploration, in situ observation of fish populations, as well as the development of cutting-edge technologies, provide moder...

Advances in underwater exploration, in situ observation of fish populations, as well as the development of cutting-edge technologies, provide moder...

After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors’ rising interest in farmland in devel...

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as th...

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as th...

Industrial agriculture is responsible for widespread environmental degradation and undermines the pursuit of human well-being. With a projected glo...

Industrial agriculture is responsible for widespread environmental degradation and undermines the pursuit of human well-being. With a projected glo...

Knott’s Handbook for Vegetable Growers Authoritative and comprehensive go-to reference work for commercial vegetable growers around the world For ...

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domesticat...