Agriculture & Related Industries

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...

This volume provides a contemporary overview of new strategies for traditional medicine development, of the importance of cataloging ethnomedical i...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...

The organic products market is experiencing rapid growth. This surge can be attributed to consumers' perception of organic products as healthier op...

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues. Agricult...

This volume is a collection of 14 conference papers discussing India's development story around the three themes of sustainable development goals (...

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes o...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. Texas Longhorn cattle are categorised at critical risk...

Green chemistry is a vital subject playing a key role in environmental sustainability. Despite its importance, very little has been explored in the...

Originally published in 1990, Onions and Allied Crops, is a comprehensive account of the edible allium, examined across three volumes. The collecti...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losi...

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregul...

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and t...

Innovation Platforms (IPs) form the core of many Agricultural Research for Development programmes, stimulating multi-stakeholder collaboration and ...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addre...

The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, so U.S. policies have big effects o...

The use of organic management practices in field cropping continues to rise globally, and these methods have proven to be a viable way to produce f...

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resour...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

The discussion about energy perspectives beyond 2020, up to 2030 and eventually 2050 has started. There seems to be a verbal consensus on the neces...

Aeroponics: Growing Vertical covers aspects of the emerging technology, aeroponics, which is a sister to hydroponics, involving state-of-the-art co...

This sixth edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to success...

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the import...

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been com...

Practical statistics is a powerful tool used frequently by agricultural researchers and graduate students involved in investigating experimental de...

Wolves are controversial figures worldwide and much effort has focused on how to conserve them while addressing public concerns. With its solitary ...

This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural pe...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination of food security from its histo...