Agriculture & Related Industries

This book delves into the development trajectories of rural Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. The book addresses the key challenges rural com...

This book provides an insightful exploration of agribusiness entrepreneurship in the dynamic landscape of the global economy. Targeted at agribusin...

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change. This book aims to provide new biotechn...

How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history o...

Design, Operation, and Control of Insect-Rearing Systems: Science, Technology, and Infrastructure explains the fundamental components of insect rea...

Farm Office Handbook is a practical reference source for anyone involved in farm administration. It offers comprehensive guidance on farm office ba...

Clean environment and green energy are the basic requirements of a sustainable human life. Semiconductor materials play a crucial role in addressin...

Buckwheat: Forgotten crop for the Future offers an overview of this globally important crop, including its history, origin and its importance to fu...

The book is an exhaustive assessment of the innovative farmer producer companies or co-operative companies in India based on 23 case studies of suc...

This book provides basic knowledge of the programming and interfacing of devices with IoT modem and programming. The aim is to explain the basic st...

Key features:Presents a brief history of past classifications, a summary of present classification, and speculation on how the classification may e...

According to the United Nations, 77 million people are expected to face water shortage by 2025, if people continue to use water at the current rate...

Agriculture transforms the environment. The simplification of agroecosystems structure increases the hazards of leaching, wind and water erosion, a...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

Water is the most vital substance in every aspect of life, and its contamination because of the activity of mankind poses a big global challenge. A...

While there are a few plant cell biology books that are currently available, these are expensive, methods-oriented monographs. The present volume i...

This title was first published in 2000: Most African countries experienced dramatic agricultural market reforms over the 1990s. This has resulted i...

This title was first published in 2001. An interdisciplinary team of leading European scholars bring together case studies from Western and Eastern...

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants, animals, and humans while also impro...

Scentwork for Horses is the first practical guide on how to implement scentwork into the lives of domesticated horses, enhancing behaviour, welfare...

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values. Colour ...

Energy from wave and tidal power is a key component of current policies for renewable sources of energy. This book provides the first comprehensive...

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental pr...

Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects is a collection of useful scientific resources for students, researc...

Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionu...

Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations reveals how valuable medicinal compounds can be identified through the applicatio...

The discussion on arsenic in the environment is complex and must grasp the importance of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects. T...

This title was first published in 2003. The 'Economics of Forestry' is a specialized subset of resource economics addressing a specific natural res...

The evolution of animal diversity is strongly affected by the origin of novel cell and tissue types and their interactions with each other. Underst...

The author offers an overview of pollen biology and biotechnology for students and researchers in areas such as reproductive biology, biotechnology...

First published in 1988: This easy-to-read handbook provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on lichens. The structure of lichens a...

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and polic...

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and i...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options. This book addresses the c...

Asian medicinal plants show great promise in pharmaceutical and cosmetological development. Researchers engaged in the discovery of new leads in th...