The World of Organic Agriculture
The World of Organic Agriculture

Author: Minou Yussefi-Menzler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1136535233

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The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic sector from throughout the world and provides comprehensive organic farming statistics that cover surface area under organic management, numbers of farms and specific information about commodities and land use in organic systems. The book also contains information on the global market of the burgeoning organic sector, the latest developments in organic certification, standards and regulations, and insights into current status and emerging trends for organic agriculture by continent from the worlds foremost experts. For this edition, all statistical data and regional review chapters have been thoroughly updated. Completely new chapters on organic agriculture in the Pacific, on the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and on organic aquaculture have been added. Published with IFOAM and FiBL

The Oxford English Grammar
The Oxford English Grammar

Author: Sidney Greenbaum

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1996-01

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780198612506

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Covers written and spoken British and American English and reviews grammar, usage, punctuation, and phonetics

Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed-Potatoes
Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed-Potatoes

Author: Gad Loebenstein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 9400708424

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This is a comprehensive up-to-date treatise including information on virus-, viroid-, and phytoplasma-induced potato diseases. The chapters of this book were written by internationally well-known experts and include novel techniques of detection, virus isolation, transmission, and epidemiology of the pathogens.

Sustainable Animal Agriculture
Sustainable Animal Agriculture

Author: Ermias Kebreab

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2013-12-13

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1780640420

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In order to meet increasing global demand for meat and animal by-products increasingly intensive animal production is necessary. Creating a sustainable system in animal agriculture that works in different production environments is a major challenge for animal scientists. This book draws together themes on sustainability that have emerged as the most pressing in recent years. Addressing practical topics such as air quality, manure management, animal feeds, production efficiency, environmental sustainability, biotechnology issues, animal welfare concerns, societal impacts and an analysis of the data used to assess the economic sustainability of farms.

Trends in Vital Food and Control Engineering
Trends in Vital Food and Control Engineering

Author: Ayman Hafiz Amer Eissa

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9789535152682

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This book is an example of a successful addition to the literature of bioengineering and processing control within the scientific world. The book is divided into twelve chapters covering: selected topics in food engineering, advances in food process engineering, food irradiation, food safety and quality, machine vision, control systems and economics processing. All chapters have been written by renowned professionals working in food engineering and related disciplines.

Geo-environment
Geo-environment

Author: J. F. Martin-Duque

Publisher: Witpress

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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This volume features papers from the First International Conference on Monitoring, Simulation and Remediation of the Geological Environment.