Primary Industries

Interrogates the narratives of land grabbing and agricultural investment through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced o...

This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospect...

The scope of occupational safety and health (OSH) has evolved gradually and consistently in response to variations that are socio-political or scie...

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans o...

This book is based on the author's published research and uses the principal-agent methodology as a consistent framework for analysing and evaluati...

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal ...

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mu...

Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying th...

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawaiis food system, this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to t...

The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry incl...

The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, ...

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers ...

In this loving homage to the beautiful bud, author Ellen Holland takes you on a journey into the heart of how cannabis is farmed, consumed, and app...

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste is rich in water, nutrients, energy and organic compounds. Yet waste is not being m...

An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the c...

An exploration into how we can have truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms. In the 1930s, nutritionists claimed that the increase in po...

An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the ...

This book captures how industrial crops can be used in conventional agriculture and greener biopharming for pharmaceutical industries. Pharmaceutic...