Agriculture & related industries books

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Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change

Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global...

Author: Mohamed Behnassi ,  Olaf Pollmann
ISBN: 9789401783613
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current...  Read More >>

Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities: Struggling over Dilemmas in China's Southwest Frontier

Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities:...

Author: Po-Yi Hung
ISBN: 9781137494078
Format: Hardback
$204.95

In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under...  Read More >>

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil: The Landless Rural Workers Movement

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil: The Landless...

Author: Wilder Robles ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781137517197
Format: Hardback
$204.95

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform...  Read More >>

Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview

Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview

Author: Tadashi Kawai (Wakkanai Fisheries Institute, Japan) ,  Zen Faulkes (The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, USA)
ISBN: 9781466586390
Format: Hardback
$389.00

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular...  Read More >>

Local & Regional Food Systems: Trends, Resources & Federal Initiatives

Local & Regional Food Systems: Trends, Resources & Federal...

Author: Jillian Crawford
ISBN: 9781634827751
Format: Hardback
$500.94

Local and regional food systems generally refer to agricultural production and marketing that occurs within a certain...  Read More >>

U.S. Agriculture in a Global Setting: An Agenda for the Future

U.S. Agriculture in a Global Setting: An Agenda for...

Author: M. Ann Tutwiler
ISBN: 9781138950955
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Originally published in 1988, this volume examines the setting in which U.S. agriculture finds itself and suggests...  Read More >>

U.S.-Japanese Agricultural Trade Relations

U.S.-Japanese Agricultural Trade Relations

Author: Emery N. Castle ,  Kenzo Hemmi
ISBN: 9781138944282
Format: Hardback
$389.00

First published in 1982, the editors and authors of this book examine the United States’ 1973 embargo on the export...  Read More >>

Economics and Ecology of Diversification: The Case of Tropical Tree Crops

Economics and Ecology of Diversification: The Case of...

Author: François Ruf ,  Götz Schroth
ISBN: 9789401772938
Format: Hardback
$362.22

Ecological changes such as declining soil fertility and increasing pressure from pests, diseases and weeds intensify...  Read More >>

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following nature's way

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following nature's...

Author: Sven Erik Jørgensen ,  Brian D. Fath
ISBN: 9781138842526
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise the economic system using nature as a model.  Read More >>

Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts

Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing,...

Author: Amy J. Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781611861747
Format: Hardback
$77.00

With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals...  Read More >>

Best Management Practices for Drip Irrigated Crops

Best Management Practices for Drip Irrigated Crops

Author: Kamal Gurmeet Singh ,  Megh R. Goyal
ISBN: 9781771880954
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book focuses on best management practices for drip irrigated crops. It cover irrigation methods, scheduling...  Read More >>

Acre Program Payments and Risk Reduction: An Analysis Based on Simulations of Crop Revenue Variability: Economic Research Report Number 101

Acre Program Payments and Risk Reduction: An Analysis...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515235514
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Crop revenue variability-which differs across crops, regions, and the geographic levels at which revenue is measured-is...  Read More >>

The Farm ACT's Regional Equity Provision: Impacts on Conservation Program Outcomes: Economic Research Report Number 98

The Farm ACT's Regional Equity Provision: Impacts on...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515235743
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The 2002 and 2008 Farm Acts increased funding for conservation programs that provide financial assistance to farmers...  Read More >>

The Economics of Water Utilization in the Beet Sugar Industry

The Economics of Water Utilization in the Beet Sugar...

Author: George O. G. Löf ,  Allen V. Kneese
ISBN: 9781138944466
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Originally published in 1965, this case study of the beet sugar industry undertaken by George O. G. Lof and Allen...  Read More >>

Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2

Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Global Agrarian...

Author: Marc Edelman
ISBN: 9781138916500
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This collection brings together many world-renowned scholars in the first collection of its kind: a critical examination...  Read More >>

Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles for Critical Assessment

Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles...

Author: Ian A. Robertson
ISBN: 9780415535625
Format: Hardback
$347.00

In this objective, practical and authoritative introduction to animal law, the author examines the foundational...  Read More >>

Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles for Critical Assessment

Animals, Welfare and the Law: Fundamental Principles...

Author: Ian A. Robertson
ISBN: 9780415535632
Format: Paperback
$101.00

In this objective, practical and authoritative introduction to animal law, the author examines the foundational...  Read More >>

New Directions in Political Economy: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 1

New Directions in Political Economy: Global Agrarian...

Author: Ryan Isakson (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138916395
Format: Hardback
$305.00

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this...  Read More >>

Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico: Public Policy for Reducing Economic Vulnerability

Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in...

Author: Sergio O. Saldaña Zorrilla, PhD
ISBN: 9783319173580
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping...  Read More >>

Impacts of Higher Energy Prices on Agriculture and Rural Economies: Economic Research Report Number 123

Impacts of Higher Energy Prices on Agriculture and Rural...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515145394
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Agricultural production is sensitive to changes in energy prices, either through energy consumed directly or through...  Read More >>

Alternatives to a State-Based Acre Program: Expected Payments Under a National, Crop District, or County Base: Economic Research Report Number 126

Alternatives to a State-Based Acre Program: Expected...

Author: United States Department of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781515145097
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The Average Crop Revenue Election, or ACRE, program is a commodity support program that bases coverage on aggregate...  Read More >>

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