Sustainable Agriculture

Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in the impact of the human dimension on earth. Our growing population and economies and expanding technologies are placing more and more pressure on ecosystems such as forests, coastal areas, agricultural land, rivers, lakes and oceans. This book looks at... More

It's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in the media, we panic. Since most of us know ve... More

It has been recognized that an important factor in improving the viability of rural livelihoods in developing countries is the promotion of sustainable agriculture. As opposed to relying solely on cash crops, this can be more easily achieved through the domestication of various indigenous fruit tree... More

In a country such as India, where the majority of thepopulation lives in the rural areas, the state of rural environment issubstantially influenced by the state of rural economy. As the rural oragricultural economy changes, the natural resource management issues have to beaddressed in the changing s... More

The Book Is A Comprehensive Reference Work On Agricultural Biotechnology. It Brings Together The Principles And Contemporary Agricultural Biotechnology. Topics Such As History And Scope Of Agricultural Biotechnology, Plant Tissues Culture, Techniques Of Genetic Modification, Crop Improvement, Produc... More

Presenting a road map for rescuing the fate of farming from the current agrarian crisis, this collection analyzes public policy issues related to agriculture and policy formation. Assembled by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, these 39 policy papers were issued within the last 15 years ... More

This publication explores the meaning of agriculture and guides the reader into new territory, where food, ecology, and culture converge. In the food systems of South Asia, the margin between cultivated and uncultivated biodiversity dissolves through women’s day-to-day practice of collecting and c... More

Focusing on the current stage of India's development in the globalized world, this collection of essays by distinguished economists and scholars covers fiscal federalism, performance of firms, and macro modeling; agriculture issues such as land development and trade to small-farmer developments; and... More

This book is concerned primarily with the interrelationshipsof soils and growing plants. It has been prepared as a textbook for studentstaking a course in soil fertility and as a reference book for students in soilmanagement courses. An effort has been made to avoid too much"applied" mater... More

This is a 'fresh' addition to the literature on the subject. Done by three eminent scholars, living in three different continents, the sweep and scope of the work is pretty wide.Paperback... More

This book is a fresh addition to the literature on the subject. Done by threeeminent scholars, living in three different continents, the sweep and scope ofthe work is pretty wide. The topics discussed include: agriculture andinter-state inequality; manufacturing industry and the small scale sector;f... More