Primary Industries

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

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

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 ...

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of...

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...

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

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...

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection ...

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 ...

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's ocean...