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  • Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production

    Edited by Donald D. Bell, William D. Weaver ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production is the 5th edition of a highly successful book first authored by Dr. Mack O. North in 1972, updated in 1978 and 1984. The 4th edition was co-authored with Donald D. Bell in 1990. The book has achieved international success as a reference for students and commercial poultry and egg producers in every major poultry producing country in the world.The 5th ... Read more

    $251.09 USD

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  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • 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

    $43.99 USD

  • Understanding Food Insecurity

    Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

    by Maria Sassi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies. The aim is to equip readers with a sound understanding of the subject that will assist in the recognition of food insecurity and the design of suitable responses. The early chapters discuss the evolution and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • Environmental and Agricultural Modelling:

    Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment

    Edited by Floor M. Brouwer, Martin van Ittersum ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa

    Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement

    by Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo ...
    Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement evaluates traditional cultivation practices used by smallholder farmers, providing a synthesis of the latest information on increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations. The book catalogs smallholder cultivation practices and recommends innovative strategies for improving ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Dealing with consumer uncertainty

    Public Relations in the Food Sector

    by Karin Bergmann ...
    Series series Gesunde Ernährung Healthy Nutrition
    My studies on the "uncertain consumer" began with a research project c- ducted by the Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung - Foundation for healthy nutrition - on the negative image of processed food. Ever since then I have been asked whether or not growing consumer uncertainty is linked to information po- cies of the food sector and if so, how. Intensive three-year research showed that industrial methods of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Emerging Economies

    Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation

    Edited by Parthasarathi Shome, Pooja Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Food Quality and Consumer Value

    Delivering Food that Satisfies

    by Monika J.A. Schröder ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Consumer markets for foods and beverages in developed countries are well supplied and highly fragmented. Yet, the question being asked is how close retailers actually come to fulfilling their customers' requirements. The concept of consumer value is one of the main pillars underpinning the theory of market differentiation. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Current and Future Reproductive Technologies and World Food Production

    Edited by G. Cliff Lamb, Nicolas DiLorenzo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the impacts of current and future reproductive technologies on our world food production and provides a significant contribution to the importance of research in the area of reproductive physiology that has never been compiled before. It would provide a unique opportunity to separate the impacts of how reproductive technologies have affected different species and their ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Food Safety, Market Organization, Trade and Development

    Edited by Abdelhakim Hammoudi, Cristina Grazia, Yves Surry, Jean-Baptiste Traversac ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade. Focusing on food safety regulation at an international level and private food safety standards, the authors use contemporary methodologies to analyze supply chain structures and organization as well as food-chain actors’ strategies. They also evaluate the effects of these on both consumer ... Read more

    $89.09 USD