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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nilabja ghosh”
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  • India’s Agricultural Marketing

    Market Reforms and Emergence of New Channels

    by Nilabja Ghosh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies where large sections of populace are engaged in low paying agriculture. On a wider front, these reforms ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Agriculture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Brassley, Richard Soffe ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Agriculture, one of the oldest human occupations, is practised all over the world, using techniques ranging from the profoundly traditional to the most scientifically advanced. Without it we would starve. Yet how many of us understand what is happening in the fields that we see as we drive through the countryside? How often do we think about the origins of the food in our trolley? In this Very ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Australia's Role in Feeding the World

    The Future of Australian Agriculture

    Edited by Blagrove, Hundloe, Ditton ...
    Earth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed. When faced with providing food for so many people, the idea is often advanced that Australia will become the 'food bowl' of Asia. Australia currently grows enough food to feed about three times its population and agricultural exports are important to our economy ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Federal Data Science

    Transforming Government and Agricultural Policy Using Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Feras A. Batarseh, Ruixin Yang ...
    Federal Data Science serves as a guide for federal software engineers, government analysts, economists, researchers, data scientists, and engineering managers in deploying data analytics methods to governmental processes. Driven by open government (2009) and big data (2012) initiatives, federal agencies have a serious need to implement intelligent data management methods, share their data, and ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • Creating Wine

    The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Peasants in Power

    The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda

    by Philip Verwimp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book shows how Rwanda’s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential clan chose a development model that would not change the political status quo. When the latter ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Livelihood Pathways of Indigenous People in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

    Exploring Land-Use Change

    by Huỳnh Anh Chi Thái ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.The first empirical section sheds light on multiple external conditions (policy reforms, population trends, and market forces) exposed onto local people. The role of human and social ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Family Farming and the Worlds to Come

    Edited by Jean-Michel Sourisseau ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the “International Year of Family Farming,” the United Nations has ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Cow Talk

    Understanding Dairy Cow Behaviour to Improve Their Welfare on Asian Farms

    by Rebecca Doyle, John Moran ...
    The aim of this manual is to improve the welfare of dairy cattle in tropical developing countries, and by doing so, optimise cow and herd performance. It gives the stockmen and farmers directly concerned with the cattle a better understanding of animal behaviour and the ways cattle communicate their comfort or distress. The book discusses normal cattle behaviour and shows how domestication and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Managing High Grade Dairy Cows in the Tropics

    by John Moran ...
    Dairy consumption in Asia has more than doubled over the last 25 years, and has led to more than 50% of the world’s total dairy imports now entering Asian markets. Consequently, Asian countries are seeking to improve their self-sufficiency in dairy produce by developing their local milk industries. Asian livestock importers are looking for increasing numbers of high grade dairy stock from ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • Trapping and the Detection, Control, and Regulation of Tephritid Fruit Flies

    Lures, Area-Wide Programs, and Trade Implications

    Edited by Nancy Epsky, Jesus Reyes-Flores, Eric B. Jang, Todd Shelly, Roger Vargas ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book focuses on four broad topics related to trapping of agriculturally important tephritid fruit flies, namely i) lures and traps, ii) invasion biology and detection of infestations, iii) attract and kill systems, and iv) trade regulations and risk assessment. This comprehensive structure progresses from the biological interaction between insect and lures/traps to the area-wide use of ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Govinda R. Timilsina, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Interest in biofuels began with oil shocks in the 1970’s, but the more rapid development and consumption of biofuel industry in recent years has been primarily driven by mandates, subsidies, climate change concerns, emissions targets and energy security. From 2004 to 2006, fuel ethanol grew by 26% and biodiesel grew by 172%. As biofuel production continues to expand, investments in capacity ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD