Primary Industries

This book explores the nature of challenges facing agriculture, emphasizing the need to rethink how markets are organized in food production. Descr...

This book provides a systematic overview of the recent developments in the production and processing of jute and allied fibres, giving insight into...

Globalization has transformed agri-food markets, creating a single global market with reduced trade barriers. In theory, this should bring increase...

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbiaone of the worst urban slums in Nort...

This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting si...

There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and t...

The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly deplet...

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book ...

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the worlds largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more th...

The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically ...

This book is an interdisciplinary primer on critical thinking and effective action for the future of our global agrifood system, based on an unders...

This book discusses information on recent trends in fisheries biotechnology. It addresses various aspects, such as metagenomics, proteomics, surrog...

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth i...

In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth i...

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage...

Energy Transport Infrastructure for a Decarbonized Economy evaluates the transportation of fluids required in the decarbonized energy economy. The ...

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the prei...

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare...