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Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming
This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on
pesticide residues in agriculture. The first chapter outlines the
ways in which pesticide use can lead to increased pest problems,
such as pest resurgence and replacement, and the development of
pesticide resistance. The chapter examines current strategies for
mitigating the impacts of pesticides and refers to a detailed case
study on the diamondback moth (DBM) to demonstrate the practical
application of these strategies. The second chapter explores the
threat of pesticide poisoning to human health, either via
deliberate self-poisoning or via occupational exposure. It
discusses how best to monitor exposure to pesticides, as well as
how to minimize the human health risks that may arise as a result
of their use/exposure. The authors refer to a case study on
smallholder cotton farmers in the Republic of Benin to emphasise
the global pesticide poisoning crisis. The final chapter reviews
the environmental impacts of pesticide use in agriculture,
focussing on their contribution to global human and ecological
health issues. It provides an overview of how pesticides are
currently addressed in emission inventory and impact assessment,
and discusses the relevance of spatiotemporal variability in
modelling emissions and the toxicity and ecotoxicity impacts of
pesticides.
The Solar Corridor Crop System: Implementation and Impacts presents
a case-study format on the planning and implementation of
alternative cropping systems designed to maximize incident sunlight
and bio-support of all crops in a rotation system. The book
describes the basic component of the system, an increased access
point of incident sunlight between each row or pairs of rows that
enables a more uniform vertical distribution of incident sunlight
to chloroplasts within the entire corn leaf canopy. While the
production environment and environment specific genetics determine
the performance potential of this principle, by maximizing the
principles that light is basic to crop yield, a solar corridor
ultimately contributes to increased grain yield. Written by experts
who were integral in the development of solar corridor systems, and
providing real-world examples of the methods, challenges and future
prospects, this book will be valuable for those seeking to increase
yield-per-acre through both primary and cover-crops.
Alternative Swine Management Systems examines technologically
humane substitutions for swine production, focusing specifically on
hoop structure systems. Benefits of these alternatives include
enhanced animal welfare and reduced capital cost. From small
holders involved in low input pig farms, to larger commercial
operations, this book instructs users on new technology to improve
the quality of animal production, animal welfare and environmental
protection points.
Safety and Practice for Organic Food covers current food safety
issues and trends. It provides detailed information on all organic
and pasture practices including produce-only, farm-animal-only or
integrated crop-livestock farming, as well as the impact of these
practices on food safety and foodborne infections. The book
explores food products that organic, integrated and traditional
farming systems are contributing to consumers. As the demand for
organic food products grows faster than ever, this book discusses
current and improved practices for safer products. Moreover, the
book explores progressive directions, such as the application of
next-generation sequencing and genomics to aid in the understanding
of the microbial ecology of the agro-environment and how farmer
education can contribute to sustainable and safe food. Safety and
Practice for Organic Food is a unique source of organic
agricultural practices and food production for researchers,
academics and professionals at agriculture-based universities and
colleges who are involved in food science, animal sciences
including poultry science, food safety, food microbiology, plant
science and agricultural extension. This book is also an excellent
source of information for regulators and federal government
officials (USDA, FDA, EPA) and the food processing industry.
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 156, continues to be recognized as a
leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in
agronomy. Each volume contains an eclectic group of reviews by
leading scientists throughout the world. As always, the subjects
covered are rich, varied, and exemplary of the abundant subject
matter addressed by this long-running serial.
The increasing demand for food as well as changes in consumption
habits have led to the greater availability and variety of food
with a longer shelf life. However, these items, when not properly
preserved, can lead to severe food-borne illnesses that can be
fatal. Thus, countless studies are now geared towards the
processing, distributing, and safe storage of foods. Novel
Technologies and Systems for Food Preservation is an essential
reference source that discusses novel and emerging cooling and
heating technologies, processes, and systems for food preservation,
as well as improvements for control and monitoring systems that aim
to foster energy efficiency, equipment safety, and performance.
Additionally, it looks at concepts that may be useful for the
development of new policies and legislation concerning food
preservation. Featuring research on topics such as energy
efficiency, food quality, and legislation policies, this book is
ideally designed for government officials, policymakers, food and
service industry professionals, food safety inspectors,
researchers, academicians, and students.
This book comprises of six sections giving the state of the art
information in the following topics: Functional foods: Scope,
Market Opportunities and Recent trends, Functional food products:
Ingredients and Functionality, Functional food products:
Formulation and Processing Technology, Functional food products:
Packaging and Storage Stability, Functional food products:
Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, Future prospects
of functional food. The book is exclusively targeted for food
scientists and technologists, and scientists working in related
fields. The book also presents practical information for use in
functional food product development. It is also intended for use by
practitioners in functional food companies and food technology
centres and will also be of interest to researchers and students of
food science and technology. With recent scientific studies, this
book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date
scientific knowledge about the functional food science and
technology. The book presents a most updated knowledge on the
regulatory status of functional food in different countries. This
information, which is seldom available, is essential for the
commercial aspect of functional food. Also, core discussion on the
reliable and economical scale up of laboratory-based extraction and
purification techniques for different functional ingredients is
also presented in the detailed manner in the book. A critical issue
in the development of functional foods is health aspects and its
role in disease control. In section V, Functional food products:
Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, a variety of
examples are discussed indicating the role and action of functional
ingredients in preventing disease. The present book also addresses
the key issue of processing and its effects on the bioavailability
of bioactives. With the advent of the latest scientific technique
in the latter half of the 20th century, area of functional food has
evolved to the current state of the art.
Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems explains the causative
factors of climate change related to agriculture, soil and plants,
and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process.
Agricultural ecosystems include factors from the surrounding areas
where agriculture experiences direct or indirect interaction with
the plants, animals, and microbes present. Changes in climatic
conditions influence all the factors of agricultural ecosystems,
which can potentially adversely affect their productivity. This
book summarizes the different aspects of vulnerability, adaptation,
and amelioration of climate change in respect to plants, crops,
soil, and microbes for the sustainability of the agricultural
sector and, ultimately, food security for the future. It also
focuses on the utilization of information technology for the
sustainability of the agricultural sector along with the capacity
and adaptability of agricultural societies under climate change.
Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems incorporates both
theoretical and practical aspects, and serves as base line
information for future research. This book is a valuable resource
for those working in environmental sciences, soil sciences,
agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and agronomy.
The authors, as geologists, were endowed with the fortune of
working in Geomatics technology comprising Remote Sensing, GIS,
GPS, etc. with a focused vision to bring out the Quaternary
geological history of different parts of Indian Peninsular, the
senior author during the last four decades and the co-authors
during the last one and half decades. As geomorphology, one of the
major branch of geology, not only dealing with external landscape
architecture of the planet earth but also bears the records on the
Quaternary tectonics, riverine, coastal, aeolian, glacial, volcanic
and other geomorphic processes of the Quaternary period, the
authors were stimulated to carry out studies on the riverine life
histories, shoreline changes and offshore land building phenomena,
the recent earth movements from the geomorphic anomalies, Holocene
tectonics and their control over Quaternary deltas, etc. Besides
unfurling the geological history of the Quaternary period,
geomorphology has been deeply studied by the authors with the focus
on mapping and mitigation of natural disasters like
seismotectonics, landslides, response of coastal geomorphology to
tsunami surges, floods, etc.
The term gender is a buzz word among rural development
professionals now days. Gender mainstreaming finds its way into
various plans and programmes erected by national as well as state
government. Many organizations made the gender related training
programmes compulsory in their training agenda. The research
scholars need the secondary data for forming the base for gender
related studies. Keeping this in mind the authors have tried to put
forth some related literature from various notes and references to
formulate a book on gender mainstreaming in farm sector. 1. Status
of Farm Women and Empowerment 2. Gender Issues in Agriculture 3.
Mainstreaming Gender Through SHG 4. Rural Women and Empowerment
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