Agriculture & related industries books

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Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean

Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the...

Author: Mark Moberg
ISBN: 9781845451974
Format: Paperback
$36.25

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European...  Read More >>

Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse

Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland...

Author: Dean Bavington
ISBN: 9780774817486
Format: Paperback
$94.91

By examining one of the largest natural resource management failures of the twentieth century – the collapse of...  Read More >>

Citrus Oils: Composition, Advanced Analytical Techniques, Contaminants, and Biological Activity

Citrus Oils: Composition, Advanced Analytical Techniques,...

Author: Giovanni Dugo (University of Messina, Canzini, Italy) ,  Luigi Mondello
ISBN: 9781439800287
Format: Hardback
$389.00

World production of citrus fruits is growing. The application of these products include foods, pharmaceuticals,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Structural Reform in Turkish Agriculture: Beyond the World Bank's Strategy

Rethinking Structural Reform in Turkish Agriculture:...

Author: Baris Karapina ,  Fikret Adaman
ISBN: 9781608767182
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Turkish agriculture has been experiencing a period of unique policy experiment over the years. A World Bank-initiated...  Read More >>

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010: Addressing Food Insecurity In Protracted Crises

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010: Addressing...

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ISBN: 9789251066102
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Focuses on a particular group of countries in protracted crisis where levels of undernourishment are estimated to...  Read More >>

Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets

Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets...

Author: Sarah Lyon
ISBN: 9781607320579
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Analyses the collective action and combined efforts of fair-trade network participants to construct a economic reality....  Read More >>

Organic Food: Consumers' Choices and Farmers' Opportunities

Organic Food: Consumers' Choices and Farmers' Opportunities...

Author: Maurizio Canavari ,  Kent D. Olson
ISBN: 9781441922892
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Gives an overview of the organic food sector, both in Italy and in the US. This title covers economic issues raised...  Read More >>

Freshwater: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

Freshwater: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives...

Author: James Fargo Balliett
ISBN: 9780765682307
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Freshwater is our planet’s most precious resource, and also the least conserved. This book traces the complex history...  Read More >>

Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets

Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets...

Author: Sarah Lyon
ISBN: 9781607320562
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Analyses the collective action and combined efforts of fair-trade network participants to construct a economic reality....  Read More >>

Landscape Amenities: Economic Assessment of Agricultural Landscapes

Landscape Amenities: Economic Assessment of Agricultural...

Author: Isabel Vanslembrouck ,  Guido Van Huylenbroeck
ISBN: 9789048168040
Format: Paperback
$419.76

Promoting the positive environmental effects of agriculture and avoiding negative ones, has become one of the central...  Read More >>

The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species

The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms,...

Author: Thomas P. Holmes ,  Jeffrey P. Prestemon
ISBN: 9789048171156
Format: Paperback
$439.85

This unique, state-of-the-art review shows that neo-classical economic principles can be integrated with ecosystem...  Read More >>

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice...

Author: Alison Blay-Palmer
ISBN: 9780754678168
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners,...  Read More >>

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality...

Author: Ben Hewitt ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9781441766564
Format: Audio
$79.07

The captivating story of a small town coming back to life, is narrative nonfiction at its best, full of colorful...  Read More >>

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality...

Author: Ben Hewitt ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9781441766540
Format: Audio
$200.64

The captivating story of a small town coming back to life, is narrative nonfiction at its best, full of colorful...  Read More >>

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food

The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality...

Author: Ben Hewitt ,  Arthur Morey
ISBN: 9781441766557
Format: Audio
$79.07

The captivating story of a small town coming back to life, is narrative nonfiction at its best, full of colorful...  Read More >>

Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas

Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas

Author: Wil de Jong ,  Denyse Snelder
ISBN: 9781849712231
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience or the opportunities...  Read More >>

Nourishing the Land, Nourishing the People: A Madagascar Success Story

Nourishing the Land, Nourishing the People: A Madagascar...

Author: Benoit Thierry (IFAD, Italy) ,  Brett Shapiro (IFAD, Italy)
ISBN: 9781845937393
Format: Hardback
$181.13

This book covers a development initiative in Madagascar that enabled a region suffering drought and famine to become...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering - 2 Volume Set (Print Version)

Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering...

Author: Dennis R. Heldman (Heldman Associates, Mason, Ohio, USA) ,  Carmen I. Moraru (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781439811115
Format: Hardback
$2101.31

"""Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, Second Edition - 2 Volume Set (Print Version)""."...  Read More >>

Advanced Geoinformation Science

Advanced Geoinformation Science

Author: Chaowei Yang (Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA) ,  David Wong (George Mason University, Virginia, USA)
ISBN: 9781439810606
Format: Hardback
$215.00

GeoInformation Science encompasses more than just traditional technologies such as remote sensing, GIS, and supporting...  Read More >>

Handbook of Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment

Handbook of Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment...

Author: Louis J. Thibodeaux ,  Donald Mackay
ISBN: 9781420047554
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Focusing on theory, correlations, and predictive methods, this title addresses the data requirements for assessing...  Read More >>

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role...

Author: Kostas Karantininis ,  Jerker Nilsson
ISBN: 9789048170319
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies comprises a selection of sixteen newly written essays that provide...  Read More >>

Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn

Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of...

Author: Volker Beckmann ,  Martina Padmanabhan
ISBN: 9789048181841
Format: Paperback
$525.36

New approaches to environmental economics are presented in Institutions and Sustainability. Readers will find discussions...  Read More >>

The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia

The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia...

Author: G.E. Wickens ,  Pat Lowe
ISBN: 9789048176397
Format: Paperback
$762.96

Although Alexander von Humboldt never saw a baobab, he wrote: ‘Among organic creatures, this tree [Dracaena draco...  Read More >>

Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Advances and Challenges

Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Advances and Challenges...

Author: Mannava VK Sivakumar ,  James Hansen
ISBN: 9783642079467
Format: Paperback
$551.76

Increasing climate knowledge and improved prediction capabilities facilitate the development of relevant climate...  Read More >>

Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Management

Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Management

Author: David R. Patton
ISBN: 9781439837023
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Combining concepts of forest and wildlife management, this book provides resources and research, practical field...  Read More >>

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