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  • Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures

    Edited by Servane Penvern, Stéphane Bellon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Stakeholders show a growing interest for organic food and farming (OF&F), which becomes a societal component. Rather than questioning whether OF&F outperforms conventional agriculture or not, the main question addressed in this book is how, and in what conditions, OF&F may be considered as a prototype towards sustainable agricultures. The book gathers 25 papers introduced in a first chapter. The ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD

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  • Eat the Sky: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork

    by Anna Lappé, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.There is a fairly standard list of environmentally friendly actions American consumers are typically encouraged to take: “drive less, buy a hybrid car, buy energy-efficient appliances, change our light bulbs.” But Anna Lappé points out that this list ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Advancing Food Integrity

    GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture

    by Gabriela Steier ...
    Key features:Presents summaries of key points after each chapter and includes color graphs to visualize the big-picture conceptsDemonstrates how urban rooftop farms (URFs) can contribute to city greening and climate change mitigation worldwide while providing fresh locally-sourced produce for growing urban populationsProvides cutting-edge ideas from the the emerging field of food law and places ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs

    by Martin Weidenbörner ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Mycotoxins are substances produced from fungal secondary metabolic processes. They impair animal health, thereby causing great economic losses of livestock through disease. Livestock come into contact with mycotoxins through contaminated feedstuff. Feedstuff is any of the constituent nutrients of an animal ration. The plants used in feed, such as grains, oil seeds, nuts, and root crops, are ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants

    Edited by Yoshinori Kanayama, Alexey Kochetov ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants. This book is unique in that it concerns the basic aspect of abiotic stress biology and research progress at the molecular level in model plants or major field crops, as it focuses mainly on the abiotic stress response in existing ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Engineering Interventions in Foods and Plants

    Edited by Megh R. Goyal, Deepak Kumar Verma ...
    Series series Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering
    With contributions from a broad range of leading professors and scientists, this volume focuses on new areas of processing technologies in foods and plants to help meet the increasing food demand of the rapidly growing populations of the world.The first section of the book is devoted to emerging entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for rural peoples in food and agricultural processing, ... Read more

    $226.99 CAD

  • Women in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Biotechnology

    Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics

    Edited by Laura S. Privalle ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This volume describes the contributions made by women scientists to the field of agricultural biotechnology, the most quickly adopted agricultural practice ever adopted. It features the perspectives of women educators, researchers and key stakeholders towards the development, implementation and acceptance of this modern technology. It describes the multiplying contemporary challenges in the field, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Maize: Nutrition Dynamics and Novel Uses

    Edited by Dharam Paul Chaudhary, Sandeep Kumar, Sapna Langyan ...
    Maize is a globally important crop mainly utilized as feed, food and raw material for diverse industrial applications. Among cereals, it occupies third place after rice and wheat and is a staple food for a large segment of population worldwide particularly in the Asian as well as African countries. This monogram discusses various aspects of nutritional quality of maize such as quality protein ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Starch

    Metabolism and Structure

    Edited by Yasunori Nakamura ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a detailed overview of the current understanding of the metabolic system of starch biosynthesis and degradation in plants. The focus is on new topics regarding the functional interaction between multiple enzymes and the initiation process of starch biosynthesis, which are essential for further understanding of related metabolic features. The book also explains and discusses the ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Fungicide Resistance in Plant Pathogens

    Principles and a Guide to Practical Management

    Edited by Hideo Ishii, Derek William Hollomon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the general principles and recent advances in fungicide resistance. It describes the development, mechanisms, monitoring, and management of resistance and covers the most important group of fungicides that have caused resistance on various crops. An historical review of fungicide resistance over the past 40 years sets the scene for up-to-date basic ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Bananas and Plantains

    Edited by S. Gowen ...
    Series series World Crop Series
    In a field of mature bananas, plants can be seen at all stages of vegetative growth and fruit maturity, providing a fascination for anyone who has an interest in growing crops. Banana farmers in the tropics can harvest fruit every day of the year. The absence of seasonality in production is an advantage, in that it provides a continuity of carbohydrate to meet dietary needs as well as a regular ... Read more

    $370.99 CAD

  • The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security

    Edited by R.N. Strange, Maria Lodovica Gullino ...
    Series Book 3 - Plant Pathology in the 21st Century
    This collection of papers represents some of those given at the International Congress for Plant Pathology held in Turin in 2008 in the session with the title “The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security”. Although food safety in terms of “Is this food safe to eat?” did not receive much direct attention it is, never theless, an important topic. A crop may not be safe to eat ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD