Sustainable Agriculture

Global crop production is under a significant challenge from both biotic and abiotic stressors. Extremes in temperature, drought, waterlogging, sal...

Food is a means of life. The way it is produced affects us all. Largely unnoticed by the public, a system of the agricultural and food industry has...

This book explores the transformative potential of ML technologies in agriculture. It delves into specific applications, such as crop monitoring, d...

This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do th...

The animal feed sector faces increasingly complex challenges. It needs to improve feed digestibility/efficiency whilst also promoting growth and en...

An invaluable handbook for farmers, growers and gardeners, Silvohorticulture is the first book to offer a detailed, practical guide on how to effec...

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this book covers a range of algal phyla, specialised algal bioprocessing and application topics that make it very interesting for a broad audience....

The safety of agri-food supply chains remains under constant threat from risks such as food adulteration, malicious contamination, microbiological ...

In conclusion, this extremely comprehensive, accurate and useful volume of reviews in the Burleigh Dodds series is recommended as an important refe...

One hundred years after Rudolf Steiner presented his lectures on agriculture in 1924, the impact of his words are self-evident. Around the world, b...

The book will be of particular interest to many whether in marketing or research throughout the pesticide industry and those involved in financial ...

This book addresses the most innovative topics on silicon to ensure sustainability in agriculture, including advances in nanotechnology and the imp...

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.Theobroma cacao is an importan...

An increase in the global population has led to a higher demand for food, besides complicating environmental, economic, and social issues. Agricult...

Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in cr...

The dairy sector continues to face increasing scrutiny for its environmental impact and contribution to climate change. It must also address consum...

In recent years, there have been significant developments in the way that pigs are bred. This is primarily as a result of a shift in focus from pro...

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...

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resour...

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recogniz...

South of Geneva, Switzerland, the River Aire runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. From the late 19th century, the wat...

The work not only presents the state of the art for several aspects of IPM but goes further in analysing the actual issues of efficiency and obstac...

Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Ea...

Pig nutrition faces many challenges, including the need to meet the changing requirements of animals as they grow whilst minimising environmentally...

This very timely book provides a comprehensive exploration of the current status of pollinators in farming and the strategies to promote pollinatio...

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competi...

This book explores the resource and environmental constraints on sustainable growth in agricultural production into the middle of the twenty-first ...

Restoration of agricultural ecosystems involves a concerted effort to revive and sustainably manage soil health, nutrient cycles, and carbon dynami...

This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate a...

It has been suggested that agriculture may account for up to 24% of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) contributing to climate change. At the same...