World Agriculture Before and After 1492: Legacy of the Columbian Exchange
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303115522X | 264 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 39 MB
The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby's celebrated book -The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book,Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonialperiod had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the worldbecame homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease afterColumbus landed. His landmark study broke new ground in its broad conceptualizationof the Atlantic exchange.

Baris Karapinar, Fikret Adaman, Gokhan Ozertan, "Rethinking Structural Reform in Turkish Agriculture: Beyond the World Bank's Strategy"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1608767183 | PDF | pages: 416 | 6.7 mb
Turkish agriculture has been experiencing a period of unique policy experiment over the last couple years. A World Bank-initiated project, called the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (ARIP), has been at the forefront of policy change. It was initially promoted by the Bank as an exemplary reform package which could also be adopted by other developing countries. It was introduced in 2001 as part of a major International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank-imposed program of 'structural adjustment' after the country had been hit by a major financial crisis. The project has finally come to an end in 2009, and there is now an urgent need for a retrospective assessment of its overall impact on the agricultural sector. Has it fulfilled its ambitious objective of reforming and restructuring Turkish agriculture? Or should it be recorded as a failure of the neo-liberal doctrine? This book aims at finding answers to these questions by investigating the legacy of ARIP from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1032428680 | 496 pages | True PDF | 20.75 MB
Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in crop production capacity. The emerging issue of global warming coupled with greenhouse gases emissions has further aggravated the scenario. Conservation agriculture helps in reducing many negative effects of conventional agriculture such as soil erosion, soil organic matter decline, water loss, soil physical degradation, and fuel use. Conservation Agriculture helps improve biodiversity in the natural and agro-ecosystems. Complemented by other good agricultural practices including the use of quality seeds, integrated pest, nutrient and water management, Conservation Agriculture provides a base for sustainable intensification of the agricultural production system. Moreover, the yield levels in Conservation Agriculture systems are higher than traditional intensive tillage systems with substantially less production costs.
This book provides comprehensive understanding of the subject with topics related to climate change mitigation strategies, approaches and impact of conservation agriculture on natural resource management.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119789753 | 497 pages | True PDF | 21.95 MB
Climate Change and Agriculture Authoritative and comprehensive resource covering climate-smart agriculture with key insights into its implementation
Climate Change and Agriculture provides a complete overview of the development of sustainable agroecosystems and cropping systems and details how to improve the resilience of cultivated crops and cropping systems to the adverse conditions of the climate, such as drought, increasing levels of carbon dioxide, global warming, and many other secondary effects such as soils fertility depletion, uncommon disease, and pests. Additionally, the text suggests different agricultural practices to face the severity of frequency of the natural events.

Low-Rank Coal Applications in Agriculture: Humic Analyses, Products, and Performance by L. Edwin Liem
English | PDF | 2021 | 328 Pages | ISBN : 1119734835 | 2.5 MB

Emerging Technologies in Agriculture and Food Science
by Karim Ennouri

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032348119 | 333 pages | True PDF | 19.49 MB
This book provides examples applications of nanotechnology in addressing problems and challenges in agriculture as well as environmental sciences and provides an overview of innovations in nanopesticides, nanofertilizers, bionanosensors and nano-based delivery system for improving different aspects of plant productivity including pre-harvest and post-harvest strategies as well detection of contaminants that could be useful for enhancing soil health. Recycling of agricultural waste to beneficial products using nanotechnologies; bionanosensors; fate of nanomaterials and the ecological consequences of their delivery into the environment; safety and nanotoxicity issues are other topics being dealt with in this book. Chapters have been written by internationally recognized researchers and experts with special reference to the innovations and latest developments in the mentioned areas of nanobiotechnology that have applications and commercial importance, especially for crop fields and post-harvest management.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0128176342 | 290 pages | True PDF EPUB | 63.85 MB
Digital Agritechnology: Robotics and Systems for Agriculture and Livestock Production describes how systems acquire and use data in livestock production and agricultural systems, and how researchers can extract and aggregate efficiencies. The origins of digital agritechnology are decades old, with robotic milkers available for over 20 years and GPS-based tractor controls existing for nearly 30. However, only a few capabilities of these sensing and control systems are used. This book addresses the need to educate agriculturists on the full usage scale of these arable and livestock systems.

Sustainable Management of Nematodes in Agriculture, Vol.1: Organic Management by Kamal Kishore Chaudhary, Mukesh Kumar Meghvansi
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 439 Pages | ISBN : 3031099427 | 47. 6 MB
The present work covers many aspects of plant nematode management using organic strategies. These range from applications of latest understandings of fundamental concepts/mechanisms of nematode control, to modern tools and techniques used in efficacy evaluation. The Volume also includes some case studies/applied aspects of organic nematode pest management.

Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan By Charlotte von Verschuer; Wendy Cobcroft
2016 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 1138885215 | PDF | 16 MB
The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public administration of land and production, and rice, the principal source of revenue, has received the most attention. However, while this cereal has clearly played a decisive role in the public economy of the Japanese State, it has not had a predominant place in agricultural production. Far from confining its scope to a study of rice growing for tax purposes, this volume looks at the subsistence economy in the plant kingdom as a whole.This book examines the history of agriculture in premodern Japan from the 8th to the 17th century, dealing with the history of agricultural techniques and food supply of rice, wheat, millet and other grains. Drawing extensively on material from history, literature, archaeology, ethnography and botany, it analyses each of the farming operations from sowing to harvesting, and the customs pertaining to consumption. It also challenges the widespread theory that rice cultivation has been the basis of "Japaneseness" for two millennia and the foundation of Japanese civilization by focusing on the biodiversity and polycultural traditions of Japan. Further, it will play a role in the current dialogue on the future of sustainable agricultural production from the viewpoints of ecology, biodiversity, dietary culture and food security throughout the world as traditional techniques such as crop rotation are explored in connection with the safeguarding of the minerals in the soil.Surveying agricultural techniques across the centuries and highlighting the dietary diversity of Japan, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese history, the history of science and technology, medieval history, cultural anthropology and agriculture.