Primary Industries

South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own terri...

Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms res...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The federal crop insurance program began in 1938 when Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The current program, which is adm...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force on January 1, 1994. The overall economic impact of NAFTA is difficult to measure...

This book describes and analyses competitive factors in Brazil affecting U.S. and Brazilian sales of agricultural goods, including grains, soy-bean...

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the quality management, issues and economic implications o...

The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation raised concerns and generated many q...

Amid over a half a century of antagonistic political relations between the United States and Cuba during which commercial ties were largely severed...

The U.S. beef industry has recalled over 23 million pounds of beef owing to contamination from pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The animal sector of agriculture has undergone major changes in the last several decades, a fact that has drawn the attention of policymakers and t...

Agriculture is one of the defining elements of a nation. This series consists of analyses on a variety of agricultural issues including (but not li...

Agriculture, Food and Food Security: Some Global Perspectives is an edited collection of scholarly work. The book looks at agriculture and food in ...

One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinati...

This long-standing annual report brings together the OECD's data on OECD countries with FAO's data on other regions to provide a uniquely comprehen...

The community of natural enemies that inhabits agroecosystems is complex mainly due to multiple trophic interactions established among them and the...

The studies on pig manure utilisation are focused on two areas: the use of the manure to fertilise soil and the treatment of the raw and digested m...

Agricultural economics students require the right blend of tools and knowledge to become future farm managers.  Olson's Economics of Farm Managemen...

Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of great skill and compassion (Eric Schlosser), now explores the d...

How does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarka...

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are the laws, rules, standards, and procedures that governments employ to protect humans, animals, and pl...

This book examines the most up-to-date research in the agricultural field. The first chapter discusses strategies for the management and mitigation...

The aim of this book is to highlight the utilization of algae for the development of useful products using environmentally friendly technologies su...

By 2006, million dollar farms, accounting for 2 percent of all U.S. farms, dominated U.S. production of high-value crops, milk, hogs, poultry, and ...

Wheat is a key staple food in Afghanistan, accounting for over half of the caloric intake of the population. It is also Afghanistan''''s major crop...

From 2006 through 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent about $13 billion annually on federal programs to support farm income, assi...

India, with one of the world''''s fastest growing and most populous economies and one of its largest farm sectors, is emerging as a potentially lar...

The origin of the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers program can be traced back to a 2000 Department of Labor report recommending that a separ...

Farm businesses'''' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. ...

From 1970 to 2007, hundreds of millions of pounds of pesticides were applied annually to U.S. food crops to protect them from pests. To protect con...

Based on a corporate crisis ripped from todays headlines, Unleash Your BS (Best Self) tells the tale of Fortune 500 managers who are suddenly facin...