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  • Sustainable Agriculture Reviews

    Edited by Eric Lichtfouse ...
    Series Book 25 - Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
    This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. It is a discipline that addresses current issues: climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. This series gathers review articles ... Read more

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  • Wheat Improvement

    Food Security in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Matthew P. Reynolds, Hans-Joachim Braun ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access in a single volume the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Wheat is a cornerstone of food security: it is the most widely grown of any crop and provides 20% of all human calories and protein. The authorship of this book includes world class researchers and breeders ... Read more

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  • Food Fix

    How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

    by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Mark Hyman Library
    An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology, Volume 3

    Perishables

    Edited by Debbie Rees, Graham Farrell, John Orchard ...
    International trade in high value perishables has grown enormously in the past few decades. In the developed world consumers now expect to be able to eat perishable produce from all parts of the world, and in most cases throughout the year. Perishable plant products are, however, susceptible to physical damage and often have a potential storage life of only a few days.Given their key importance in ... Read more

    $222.00 USD

  • Whitewash

    The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science

    by Carey Gillam ...
    **Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, First Place (2018)IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year: Most Likely to Save the Planet (2018)Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award (2018)"Reads like a mystery novel as Gillam skillfully uncovers Monsanto's secretive strategies." —Erin Brockovich"A damning picture...Gillam expertly covers a contentious front." —Publishers Weekly**"A must-read." —Booklist"Hard ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Integrated Pest Management

    Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective

    Edited by Dharam P. Abrol ...
    Integrated Pest Management: Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices using biological control and biotechnology. The removal of some highly effective broad-spectrum chemicals, caused by concerns over environmental health and public safety, has resulted in the development of alternative, reduced risk crop ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation

    by Christopher B. Barrett, Tim Benton, Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, Rebecca J. Nelson, Elizabeth Bageant, Edward Buckler, Karen Cooper, Isabella Culotta, Shenggen Fan, Rikin Gandhi, Steven James, Mark Kahn, Laté Lawson-Lartego, Jiali Liu, Quinn Marshall, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Alexander Mathys, Cynthia Mathys, Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou, Alesha Miller, Kamakhya Misra, Andrew Mude, Jianbo Shen, Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Claire Song, Roy Steiner, Philip Thornton, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple ... Read more

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  • Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

    by Shyam Singh Yadav, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Robert J. Redden, Anthony E. Hall ...
    A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, ... Read more

    $254.00 USD

  • Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations

    Value Creation for Inclusive Outcomes

    Edited by Graham Thiele, Michael Friedmann, Hugo Campos, Vivian Polar, Jeffery W. Bentley ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their vegetative seed and bulky and perishable produce. The innovations create value, food, jobs and new sources of income while improving the wellbeing and quality of life of their ... Read more

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