Primary Industries

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L) is an anadromous species contributing to major fishery catches and comprising a significant part of the aquacultur...

Winner of Dog Writers Association of America's Dogwise Best Book AwardThis book focuses on the veterinarians responsibilities for managing the prob...

A comprehensive and illustrated desk reference with terms, definitions, explanations, abbreviations, trade names, quantifications, units and symbol...

Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it ind...

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range o...

Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? This question is of interest to conscientious consumers, academics studyin...

Forests play an important role in resolving global challenges such as sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and wate...

Contemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its ...

Marine Biomedicine: From Beach to Bedside assesses current efforts in marine biomedicine and evaluates the implications of recent advances on the f...

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, an...

The water hyacinth is a disruptive factor in aquatic ecosystem management and ecosystem services, and causes problems in fisheries, transportation ...

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extract...

Until now, there has been only one source of data on global fishery catches: information reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U...

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality foo...

This volume explores capital mobility under globalization by studying some of its salient consequences in agriculture and food in North and South A...

Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform. Ten years after the land invasions of 2000, this book provides the first full acc...

Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and mar...

Genetically modified (GM) (or transgenic) crops are produced using plant biotechnology to select desirable characteristics in plants and transfer g...

The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each co...