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This book brings together unique experiences of India, China and
Israel in overcoming economic, social, and natural resource
challenges. Through its eleven chapters, the book captures the role
of groundbreaking innovations in achieving unprecedented
agricultural growth and stabilizing these nations. It provides a
future outlook of the new challenges that will confront these
countries in 2030 and beyond, related to tackling food and
nutrition security, sustainable agricultural growth and adhering to
improved food safety standards. This book provides useful insights
for exploring technological innovations and policies that can
address these future challenges and develop profitable and
sustainable agriculture. This volume also highlights valuable
lessons that India, China and Israel provide for the rest of the
developing world where population is growing fast; natural
resources are limited; and it is a challenge to produce enough
food, feed and fibre for their populations. Tracing the historical
past, this book is an impressive resource for academicians,
policymakers, practitioners, agribusiness players, entrepreneurs in
understanding the role of innovations in addressing future
challenges.
Following the enormous, decade-long success of his best-selling
Winery Technology and Operations, physical chemist and winemaker
Yair Margalit comes out with the successive, Concepts in Wine
Technology, fully updated and revised to meet the advances of
modern winemaking. Among the extended topics are fermentation, skin
contact, acid balance, phenolics, bottling, the use of oak and
quality control. He begins in the vineyard discussing proper
maturation, soil and climate, bunch health, vineyard disease states
and grape varieties. Next he tackles the pre-harvest with a careful
look at vineyard management and preparing the winery for harvest.
Dr. Margalit then outlines the entire process of harvesting, from
destemming, crushing and skin contact as it applies to both red and
white grapes to pressing, must correction and temperature control.
Fermentation is examined fully and includes a lengthy look at the
factors affecting malo-lactic fermentation and its pros and cons.
There is a huge chapter on cellar operations that deals with
racking, stabilization, fining, filtration, blending and
maintaining winery hardware, followed by sections on barrelling and
bottling. The final chapter pulls together the more general aspects
of wine technology, covering sulphur-dioxides, different forms of
wine spoilage and ways to ward them off, legal regulations and, one
of the most important and enigmatic compounds in wine, phenolics.
Originally published in the 1950s, this extremely comprehensive
book answers 800 questions about pigs and pig-keeping. Packed full
of useful information and well illustrated with explanatory
diagrams, this contains much of practical use to today's pig
keeper.Contents Include: Breeding Breeding for Bacon Sow's Breeding
Life Feeding Animal Protein Antibiotics Artificial Rearing Housing
Equipment Fattening Houses Management Bad Habits Crops and Cropping
Ear Marking and Ringing Veterinary Abnormalities Abnormal Behaviour
Abortion Boar Troubles
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This book provides in-situ phytoremediation strategies that are
particularly well suited for developing nations. Its goal is to
promote the use of field-tested phytoremediation methods for
removing soil and water pollutants from agricultural, industrial,
military, and municipal sources. These strategies include using
algae and a variety of aquatic and terrestrial plants. The book
subsequently discusses the use of crops and native plants for
phytoremediation, and how phytoremediation efforts impact the
rhizosphere. After having finished the book, readers will be able
to directly adapt the strategies described here for their specific
purposes.
A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other
living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of
genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural
movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based
hybridization between different plant species (which is a common
event in flowering plant evolution), or by laboratory manipulations
by artificial insertion of genes from another species. Methods used
in traditional breeding that generate transgenic plants by
non-recombinant methods are widely familiar to professional plant
scientists, and serve important roles in securing a sustainable
future for agriculture by protecting crops from pest and helping
land and water to be used more efficiently.
There is worldwide interest in the biosafety issues related to
transgenic crops because of issues such as increased pesticide use,
increased crop and weed resistance to pesticides, gene flow to
related plant species, negative effects on nontarget organisms, and
reduced crop and ecosystem diversity. This book is intended to
provide the basic information for a wide range of people involved
in the release of transgenic crops. These will include scientists
and researchers in the initial stage of developing transgenic
products, industrialists, and decision makers. It will be of
particular interest to plant scientists taking up biotechnological
approaches to agricultural improvement for developing nations.
* Discusses traditional and future technology for genetic
modification
* Compares conventional non-GM approaches and genetic modification
* Presents a risk assessment methodology for GM techniques
* Details mitigation techniques for human and environmental effects
This book aims to provide the reader with an understanding of the
concept of the circular economy, in relation to food supply chains.
The current food supply chain system, based upon the linear supply
chain model, is unquestionably unsustainable: make, use, dispose.
The circular supply chain model, on the other hand, aims to keep
resources in use for as long as possible, while regenerating
products/materials at the end of their service life. In short:
reduce, reuse, recycle. This book puts forwards the circular
economy as an alternative to the traditional supply chain
management models. The circular economy aims to minimise material,
energy and environmental damage without restricting economic growth
and social and technological progress. It involves transition to
renewable energy sources, and it builds on economic, natural and
social capital. This shortform monograph will appeal to academics
working in the fields of supply chain logistics, operation
management, agricultural management, and sustainability more
broadly. Dr. Stella Despoudi is Lecturer in Operations and Supply
Chain Management at Aston University, UK and Adjunct Lecturer in
Supply Chain Management at University of Western Macedonia, Greece.
Prof. Uthayasankar Sivarajah is Head of School of Management and
Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy at the
School of Management, University of Bradford, UK. Dr Manoj Dora is
Director of Collaborative Projects and Outreach at Brunel Business
School, UK. Manoj's areas of specialisation are Sustainable Value
Chain and Quality Management, with a focus on Lean Six Sigma in the
agro-food sector.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and
applications in the field of innovative biosystems engineering for
sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production. Focusing on
the challenges of implementing sustainability in various contexts
in the fields of biosystems engineering, it shows how the research
has addressed the sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable
resources. It also presents possible solutions to help achieve
sustainable production. The Mid-Term Conference of the Italian
Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA) is part of a series
of conferences, seminars and meetings that the AIIA organizes,
together with other public and private stakeholders, to promote the
creation and dissemination of new knowledge in the sector. The
contributions included in the book were selected by means of a
rigorous peer-review process, and offer an extensive and
multidisciplinary overview of interesting solutions in the field of
innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture.
Transcription Factors for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
highlights advances in the understanding of the regulatory network
that impacts plant health and production, providing important
insights for improving plant resistance. Plant production worldwide
is suffering serious losses due to widespread abiotic stresses
increasing as a result of global climate change. Frequently more
than one abiotic stress can occur at once, for example extreme
temperature and osmotic stress, which increases the complexity of
these environmental stresses. Modern genetic engineering
technologies are one of the promising tools for development of
plants with efficient yields and resilience to abiotic stresses.
Hence deciphering the molecular mechanisms and identifying the
abiotic stress associated genes that control plant response to
abiotic stresses is a vital requirement in developing plants with
increased abiotic stress resilience. Addressing the various
complexities of transcriptional regulation, this book includes
chapters on cross talk and central regulation, regulatory networks,
the role of DOF, WRKY and NAC transcription factors, zinc finger
proteins, CRISPR/CAS9-based genome editing, C-Repeat (CRT) binding
factors (CBFs)/Dehydration responsive element binding factors
(DREBs) and factors impacting salt, cold and phosphorous stress
levels, as well as transcriptional modulation of genes involved in
nanomaterial-plant interactions. Transcription Factors for Abiotic
Stress Tolerance in Plants provides a useful reference by
unravelling the transcriptional regulatory networks in plants.
Researchers and advanced students will find this book a valuable
reference for understanding this vital area.
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