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This book presents South Asia as a case study, due to the high soil erosion caused by monsoon rainfall and geophysical conditions in the region, which necessitate conservation agriculture approaches, and the high percentage of people in South Asia relying on subsistence and traditional farming.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the relevance of historical studies to current conservation and management of forests. It combines theory with a series of regional case studies to show how different aspects of forestry play out according to the landscape and historical context of the local area.

Chickens are the world's most widely farmed animal, at the centre of debates regarding housing and production systems. This accessible book covers sensory biology, behavioural development, preferences and aversions, social behaviour, learning and cognition, behavioural issues in different systems and solutions for behavioural problems.

The relationship between nutrition and behaviour is bi-directional, with nutrition able to affect activity, and behavior impacting diet and food intake. This book shows how behaviour may determine choices through peer modelling and poor dietary habits. Micronutrients and eating disorders are addressed, with a review of research methods and results.

The trade in live and dead animals and animal parts is a significant aspect of the global economy, but economic considerations are at odds with animal welfare. This book discusses the background to modern international trade, welfare, and the environmental, economic and cultural issues for farm, zoo and sport animals as well as the pet industry.

Our ancestors chose to cultivate some plant species and not others. Through years of association with humans, these wild plants have been changed so that the crops we eat often hardly resemble their wild progenitors. Arranged into broad themes depicting the history of domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 40 crops.

This book describes the use of Bt crops and the emerging problem of resistance. Covering recent progress in understanding the mechanism of action of Bt toxins, different resistance mechanisms and strategies to cope with resistance in the field, it reviews successes and failures from around the world.

In a changing climate, livestock production must adapt in order to meet the challenge of food security. This book approaches the issues of livestock production and climate change by addressing issues such feed quality and availability, abiotic stresses, livestock generated pollution, species diversity, reproduction and amelioration of methane.

Farmers face risks from the weather, crop and livestock performance, pests and diseases, as well as institutional, personal and business risks. This book includes updated chapters on theory and methods and a new chapter on the state-contingent approach to the analysis of production and the use of copulas to better model stochastic dependency.

Shifting cultivation supports around 200 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. This book contains a comprehensive analysis of past and present policy, highlighting success and failure and emphasizing the importance of getting it right for the future.

This book covers the entire gamut of oilseed brassicas. It reviews genetics and genomics (including breeding, heterosis and selection methods) and stress management and important pathogens, to provide a complete overview of brassica oilseeds.

This book covers Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) and Mycobacterium leprae across a range of host species. They are considered in regards to increasing drug resistance, HIV co-infection associated with M. tuberculosis and the possible cross-infection of badgers and cattle associated with M. bovis.

This book deals with how tourism can change behaviour and have a positive impact. It focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats. It also identifies tourism types that can transform humans, such as educational and volunteer tourism.

Garden centre management has professionalised recently as garden centres become more advanced retail operations. Aimed at students, garden centre managers and garden centre management courses, the book offers a practical approach backed by management theory. It covers consumer behaviour; staff and stock management; marketing and productivity.

This book examines the effects that land-use changes (notably agricultural intensification, logging, soil erosion, urbanisation and mining) have on soil characteristics and processes in tropical and savannah environments. It covers a range of geographical regions and environments as impacts of land use change are often site specific.

This book collectively discusses and reviews empirical data on health-promoting properties of major fresh produce types. It provides detailed information on identity, nature, bioavailablity, chemopreventative effects and postharvest stability of specific chemical classes with known bioactive properties.

The contents include soil biodiversity and food webs, phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, and crop and tree root-system dynamics. The book will be of significant interest to researchers in plant, crop and soil sciences as well as agroforestry.

This book presents refereed and edited papers from the 6th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants. It covers a range of topics from plant biochemistry to toxic effects in animals and humans. The contents include the evolution of antinutrients and toxins in plants, biomedical applications of toxins in plants and isolation.

This book is a major reference work on exotic and underutilised fruits and nuts of the New World. While many of these are well known in the local markets and in Spanish-language literature, they have rarely been brought to the attention of the wider English-speaking audience.

The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector. Covering farmers markets, agri-entertainment, glamping, restaurants, farm shops and more, food tourism is both an important part of holidaying and a purpose in itself. This book provides an overall direction to the development of food tourism and a section on the future of this trend.

This book serves as a state of the art reference book in the field of tourism, hospitality and allied fields such as leisure, recreation, and services management, providing a comprehensive list of scales used in the field.

Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios. Containing a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium of Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production 2013, this book reviews basic modelling concepts, descriptions and applications of production models and new methods and approaches in modelling.

This book explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of dogs and leisure. It looks at working dogs and considers the differing roles and changing acceptance of dogs' involvement in sport. Within the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it examines the leisure needs of dogs and their owners.

Transport is an inherent part of tourism, and this book provides the information to gain a comprehensive understanding of transportation markets. Air, ground and marine transportation are covered, including definitions, historical development and institutional frameworks. Case studies, learning objectives and study questions are also provided.

This book provides a concise and balanced review of fungicides and their application. It describes the science of fungicide use, selection and resistance within the context of farming situations, with major updates reflecting the emergence of two new classes of fungicides (strobilurins and SDHI) and the increased incidence of resistance.

This textbook provides an integrated view of beef cattle production with a systems based approach, discussing the interrelationships of many aspects with the overall goal of optimising cattle production. A key read for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in animal & veterinary science, producers, extension workers and veterinarians.

Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, this book presents a broad discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses the latest research on plant growth; water use and seed production; covers all aspects of pest management; reviews postharvest issues; and nutritional value and flavour.

This book addresses five major themes on sweetpotato and potato: policies for germplasm exchange, food security and trade in Africa; seed systems; breeding and disease management; post-harvest management, processing technologies and marketing systems; nutritional value and changing behaviours.

With a practical focus, this book is aimed at tilapia farmers and producers, describing best practice production methods, egg management, new technologies, nutrition, business practices, marketing, equipment maintenance, accounting and logistics.

This volume presents current research on the roles and importance of tourism and its interrelationships with governance and development in societies that are moving or have moved from 'authoritarian' to liberal democratic economic and political models, and those adjusting to the accession requirements of an enlarged European Union.