Agribusiness and primary industries Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Uses of Industrial Minerals, Rocks & Freshwater
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the uses of minerals. Today over 3,000 minerals have been reported and named of which 1800-2000 have been studied and described fully. We are able to gainfully use only around 100 or so minerals. Of course, none of these ''usable'' minerals can be consumed as such by the people. They can neither be eaten, nor worn, nor fought with. They have to be converted to various products that can be used by them for living their material lives. Through interactions amongst different minerals, innumerable materials are turned out for fulfilling our material needs. And though there are some uni-product minerals, the majority of the minerals are the ones each of which eventually yields a multiplicity of final consumable products. However, in today''s fast developing world, there is always a multiple choice available for technologies and grades of input materials. So, technology and input materials can be chosen to suit any grade of a mineral that is available in nature. The only constraints are the market price and the cost of mining the mineral. The cost always has to be less than the market price, the vagaries of which limit the range of flexibility regarding the specifications of grade. But, even if these specifications are not flexible enough at some point of time, the principles underlying the specifications remain valid all the time. And those principles, rather than the specifications, are emphasised in this outstanding book.
£176.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Rethinking Structural Reform in Turkish
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£166.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Fishery Management
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£139.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Feed The Future: The U.S. Global Food Security &
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£106.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Local Food Systems: Markets, Trends & Federal
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£63.19
NeWest Press Devil's Breath: The Story of the Hillcrest Mine
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£17.99
De Gruyter Ecopreneurship: Business practices for a
Book Synopsis This research monograph answers the question how sustainability driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability goals through their business practices. The research draws on data from 12 case studies set within the food industry. The analysis takes a firm level and a supply chain level perspective and provides insights to the interconnected nature of sustainability goals within and across firms. It provides theoretical propositions that show one approach of how to conduct business in a way that works for the planet and people in addition to shareholders. This presents an alternative understanding of organisational performance that builds the foundation for many avenues of future research into sustainable management. The research combines the remote areas of supply chain management and entrepreneurship at the intersection of sustainability. This novel approach and the insights from the business practice exploration, offer many avenues for further research beyond entrepreneurship and supply chain management. This book will be of interest to academics in management research and also to people with an academic background that work together with sustainability driven and/ or social entrepreneurs, who could benefit from the insights into how sustainability goals are delivered through business practices and the relevant trade-offs faced by ecopreneurs.
£59.25
Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Agricultural Surplus and Resource Mobilisation
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£11.19
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Ensuring Sustainability in Forestry:
Book SynopsisBook on forest certification in India covers concepts, economic factors, and global studies. Discusses impact on biodiversity, marketing, climate change, and offers a certification strategy for the country.
£29.99
Deep & Deep Publications Globalization Agricultural Growth and Food
Book SynopsisIncrease in agricultural productivity is crucial globally for food security. Analyzing growth and productivity of food grains and total agricultural production through time series data is essential for planning sector growth. Detailed analysis of food security over time is also vital.
£29.62
Bookwell Publications Enabling Agricultural Markets for the Small
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£20.24
Sanskriti Agriculture and TWO Opportunity for India
Book SynopsisBook Summary of Agriculture And TWO Opportunity For India This book deals with issues relevant for agriculture, in domestic and international fields. The treatise examines the positions in the developed countries and touches upon the global situation as well as the manner in which the global situation has evolved.
£32.99
Bookwell Publications Growth Globalization and Agriculture in India
Book SynopsisThe book examines India's agricultural growth and globalization post-1991, highlighting constraints and policy suggestions. Despite challenges, India has seen significant economic growth, becoming a major global economy. The text offers a detailed look at India's economic development, accessible to economists and non-economists alike.
£22.88
Oxford University Press Soybeans and Power
Book SynopsisIn 1996, the Argentine government authorized the use of genetically modified (GM), herbicide-resistance soybean seeds. By the mid-2000s, GM soybeans were cultivated on more than half of the arable land in Argentina and represented one-fourth of the country''s exports. While this agricultural boom has benefitted agribusiness companies and fed tax revenues, it also has a dark side: it has accelerated the deforestation of native forests, prompted the eviction of indigenous and peasant families, and spurred episodes of contamination.In Soybeans and Power, Pablo Lapegna investigates the ways in which rural populations have coped with GM soybean expansion in Argentina. Based on over a decade of ethnographic research, Lapegna reveals that many communities initially resisted, yet ultimately adapted to the new agricultural technologies forced upon them by public officials. However, rather than painting the decline of the protests in an exclusively negative light, Lapegna argues that the farmersTrade ReviewPablo Lapegna's book, Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina, offers a deeply theorized and beautifully written ethnography of how peasants and their organizations in the northern part of Argentina have experienced, understood, mobilized against, and ultimately accommodated themselves to the arrival of transgenic soy... Ultimately, Soy and Power is an excellent and intellectually stimulating read. * Rachel Schurman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction GM Crops, Global Ethnography, and the Dynamics of De-Mobilization Chapter One: The Dark Side of the Boom Neoliberalization, GM Soybeans, and Environmental Change in Argentina Chapter Two: Emergence Peasants, Politics, and Patrons: Rural Social Movements in Formosa (1970s-2000s) Chapter Three: Contention Peasants Confronting GM Soybeans and Agrochemical Exposure (2003) Chapter Four: Demobilization Peasants, Governments, and Constituents Across Political Scales (2004-2013) Chapter Five: Accommodation Peasants Negotiating GM Crops and Agrochemical Exposure (2009-2013) Conclusion: Companion Planting The Crucible of GM Crops, Global Processes, and Social Movements Appendix: On the Ethnographic Craft
£33.24
Oxford University Press Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Book SynopsisCereal grains like wheat and rice are important, because they are the basis of most food supplies. Yields of such crops have increased dramatically during the past 100 years and especially since 1950, leading to what was often called the Green Revolution. This book examines why the United States, India, Britain and Mexico each sought to develop high yield wheat production. Although the increase in yield has been attributed to plant breeding science, security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies. This relationship has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization, and will plague future efforts to make agriculture equitable and sustainable.Trade Review'...an important book on the development of wheat breeding in the United States, Great Britain, India and Mexico during the 20th century...The book's strength is its descriptive power, especially in intellectual hisotr...Throughout, Perkins provides his readers with an excellent introduction to a variety of complex topics...' * Kathy J Cooke, Endeavour Vol. 22 (3), 1998. *Table of Contents1. Political Ecology and Yield Transformation ; 2. Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding ; 3. Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1939 ; 4. Plant Breeding in its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940 ; 5. The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics for Plant Breeding, 1941-1945 ; 6. Hunger, Overpopulation, and Natural Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956 ; 7. Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970 ; 8. Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970 ; 9. Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Post-Imperial Britain, 1935-1954 ; 10. Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975 ; Epilogue: Implications of History the Future
£64.60
Oxford University Press Beyond the Boundaries
Book SynopsisSpanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan''s Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.Trade Review"The social history of the mining frontier should be written and researched as well as Larry Lankton's Beyond the Boundaries....The book is a treat to read and a worthy contribution to helping us understand frontier mining societies."--Mining History News"To tell his story, the author has mined diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and company records, as well as a wealth of other primary and secondary literature. What emerges is a richly textured story that Lankton recounts with authority and gusto. It is a book that will interest local historians and those whose focus is social or western history."--Labor History"With clarity, precision, and sound scholarship, Lankton examines everyday life on the Keweenaw frontier from 1840-1875, the years of growing pains for the infant copper industry...Lankton describes with vivid detail the tedious day of a hard rock miner...Beyond the Boundaries is local history at its best. Lankton has provided a scholarly look at early life on the copper range in Michigan amid the transformation of a wilderness. The net of topics is widely thrown, but Lankton articulates everyday life based on the facts and with eloquent interpretation...Beyond the Boundaries belongs on the shelf of every library in Michigan next to its copy of Cradle to Grave."--Michigan Historical Review"Conducting two decades of research, assisted by student projects, [Lankton] has delved extensively into diaries, company personnel files, and local government records to profile the human aspects of this mining region....The large amount of new historical material is arranged by category and well indexed. This is no ordinary anecdotal history....As an academic work it is refreshingly unquantitative: the reader is not inundated....This broad-minded treatment of a major, now-dormant mining region should interest practicing economic geologists."--Economic Geology"In this, his third book on the region, Larry Lankton examines the simultaneous development of Keweenaw mining and the attendant cultural and social institutions of the people who worked and lived there. What he describes is a world far removed from either civilization or the frontier....Lankton discusses a number of fascinating issues....By relying on primary sources and by covering a breadth of topics, the author demonstrates extensive knowledge of the history of the region, and uncovers a number interesting avenues of research for the Keweenaw district."--Journal of Economic History"Larry Lankton's Beyond the Boundaries invites comparison with the best studies of 'everyday life' in similar settings, and with classics such as Rockdale and Amoskeag. It is an impressively researched and gracefully narrated companion-piece to his Cradle to Grave volume."--Robert C. Post, Past President of the Society for the History of TechnologyTable of Contents1: Water, Woods, and Winter: A Special Sense of Place 2: Heaving Up Jonah: The Travail of Travel 3: Settling In: Camps, Communities, Houses, and Hotels 4: A Lapful of Apples: Foodways in the Far North 5: Keeping House: All the Work of the Family 6: Tasks at Hand: Making a Living: Men and Women, Boys and Girls 7: Saints and Scholars: Village Churches and Schools 8: The Sins of the Body: Maladies, Medicines, and Frontier Physicians 9: Ice Carnivals, Camels, and Sunday Trombones: Pioneer Pastimes 10: Shattered Hopes and Broken Prospects: Lunatics, Larcenists, and Lives of Woe 11: Transformations: A Long-Lived Frontier
£34.67
Oxford University Press Why David Sometimes Wins
Book SynopsisOn April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history--one that made Cesar Chavez famous as leader of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). In Why David Sometimes Wins, Marshall Ganz tells the story of the UFW''s ground-breaking victory, drawing out larger lessons from this dramatic tale. A longtime leader in the movement and current lecturer in public policy at Harvard, he offers unique insight. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises had relied on migrant labor--a cheap, unorganized, and powerless workforce. In 1965, after successive waves of attempts at organizing this large and growing population, the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, and the three-year-old NFWA all found themselves on the ground, recruiting members. That year, some 800 Filipino grape workers began a strike, under the aegis of theTrade ReviewThis throughly documented account is support by insights and evidence from Marshall's personal experience, and many will read it as much for its exciting story of the farm workers' struggle as for its contribution to the theory of social movements.... Recommended. * Social & Behaviorial Science *In Why David Sometimes Wins, Ganz demonstrates his own marvelous story telling skill in his narration of the farm workers' movement in America... It's about organizing and tactics that work. Ganz describes them in a unique and interesting manner from his own vantage point within the farm workers' movement. WHy David Sometimes Wins is a valuable resource for teachers and students of community organizing, labor history and the dynamics of social change. * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *A brilliant new book. * The Nation *Why David Sometimes Wins is an exceptional book that will be of widespread interest to scholars and activists alike. * American Journal of Sociology *This book is a must read for organizers. The analysis of how a small and poor, but motivated, group of workers triggered a social movement provides invaluable lessons on what to do and not do as we struggle with the challenges of the 21st century. * Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction: How David Beat Goliath ; 2. Beginnings: Immigrants, Radicals, and the AFL (1900-1959) ; 3. New Opportunities, New Initiatives: (1959-1962) ; 4. A Storm Gathers: Two Responses (1963-1965) ; 5. The Great Delano Grape Strike (1965-1966) ; 6. Meeting the Counter-Attack (1966) ; 7. Launching a New Union (1966-1967) ; Epilogue ; Appendix ; Notes ; References ; Index
£43.69
Oxford University Press Garden of the World
Book SynopsisNearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely worked by Asian immigrants. In Harvesting the American Dream, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked and intertwined histories of the land of the Santa Clara Valley and the Asian immigrants who cultivated it. Weaving together the story of the three overlapping waves of Asian migration from China, Japan, and the Philippines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Tsu offers a comparative history that sheds light on white and Asian Californians'' understandings of race, gender, and national identity.From the mid-nineteenth century on, white farmers had an increased need for labor, and Chinese immigrants willingly and disproportionately filled it. Despite this common labor arrangement, the idea of the independent family farm, worked solely by faTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. "Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman": Race, Labor, and Family Farming ; Chapter 2. Transplanted: The World of Early Issei Farmers ; Chapter 3. Pioneering Men and Women: Japanese Gender Relations in Rural California ; Chapter 4. "Defending the American Farm Home": Japanese Farm Families and the Anti-Japanese Movement ; Chapter 5. From Menace to Model: Reshaping the "Oriental Problem" ; Chapter 6. "Reds, communists, and fruit strikers": Filipinos and the Great Depression ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
£40.84
MIT Press Enriching the Earth Fritz Haber Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production The MIT Press
Book SynopsisDr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia.In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its role in crop production, and traditional means of supplying the nutrient. He then looks at various attempts to expand natural nitrogen flows through mineral and synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is a detailed narrative of the discovery of ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber—a discovery scientists had sought for over one hundred years—and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and the chemical company BASF. Smil also exami
£33.00
Springer Sugar Cane Cultivation and Management
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£170.99
Springer Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality
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£85.49
Springer Economic Studies on Food Agriculture and the Environment
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£123.49
Springer Organic Food
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£123.49
W. W. Norton & Company Waste Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Book SynopsisThe true cost of what the global food industry throws away.Trade Review"Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat." -- Tom Standage - BBC Focus Magazine"Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue." -- Mark Knoblauch - Booklist"In Waste, Tristram Stuart...ingeniously unites many food scandals that often do not get the attention they deserve...Usefully, Stuart offers examples of what we could be doing better, from processing technologies to offal sausages." -- New Scientist"An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin." -- Scotland on Sunday"Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- John Preston - Seven"Book of the Week: Stuart’s book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- Sunday Telegraph [London]"This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever." -- Paul Kingsnorth - The Independent [UK]"This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisive—the sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky." -- Simon Fairlie - The Land"Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep." -- The Sun [London]"Jaw-dropping ...compelling—a must-read... Stuart has an unanswerable case." -- Bee Wilson - The Sunday Times [London]
£23.75
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Bay Shrimpers of Texas Rural Fisherman in a Global Economy
Book SynopsisThis text explores the successes and failures of the shrimpers who prowl remote bays, rivers and estuaries for their livelihoods. Through random sample surveys and historical analysis it examines the political, economic and social realities confronting the shrimpers and their families.
£23.70
Springer Bruchids and Legumes Economics Ecology and Coevolution Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Bruchids and Legumes Isbl2 Held at O 46 Series Entomologica
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£170.99
Springer Nonpoint Source Pollution Regulation Issues and Analysis 3 Economics Energy and Environment
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Springer Ecoregional approaches for sustainable land use and food production Proceedings of a symposium on ecoregional approaches in agricultural research for Sustainable Agricultural Development
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Springer Wind Erosion in Niger Implications and Control Measures in a MilletBased Farming System 67 Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences
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Springer Freer Trade Sustainability and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern EU Unraveling the Evidence from Greece 16 Economy Environment
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Springer Linking Research and Marketing Opportunities for Pulses in the 21st Century Proceedings of the Third International Food Legumes Research Conference Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture
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Springer Privatization and Deregulation Needed Policy Reforms for Agribusiness Development
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Springer Economic Environmental and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production Natural Resource Management 12 Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Springer Economics of Water Resources From Regulation to Privatization 13 Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Springer Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice Endocrine Updates
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Springer Grain Futures Contracts An Economic Appraisal
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Springer Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance Theory and Evidence 4 Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Springer Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies Lessons from Bulgaria 6 Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Springer Modeling Environmental Policy 9 Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Springer Agricultural Marketing and Consumer Behavior in a Changing World
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Springer Sustainable Food Security in West Africa
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Springer Government and the Food Industry Economic and Political Effects of Conflict and CoOperation
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John Wiley & Sons Deep Enough
Book SynopsisFrank Crampton's autobiography of mining runs the gamut of experience, from bindle-stiff, to hard-rock miner, to mining engineer, as he works his way from Cripple Creek through almost every mining camp of importance in the West of the USA from 1900 to 1920.
£18.86
Amacom First in Thirst How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon
Book SynopsisAlthough a few other brands hold slim market shares, the fact is that Gatorade single-handedly created the sports drink industry 40 years ago and has absolutely ruled it ever since. Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in First in Thirst.
£16.14
Sean Kingston Publishing Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea
Book SynopsisProvides an insight into the effects of mining and other forms of resource extraction upon the indigenous peoples of Australia and Papua New Guinea. The text offers a focus on indigenous cosmologies and their articulation or disjunction with the forces of "development", based on fieldwork with the people concerned,
£25.00
Revel Barker The Sawdust Millionaire
£13.62
After Midnight Publishing Agribusiness Management in Sustainable Agricultural Enterprises
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Citrine Press Mineral Land Rights What You Need to Know
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