Environmental Histories of New Zealand presents an interdisciplinary account of one of the most rapid and extensive transformations of nature in human history: that which followed Maori and then European...
An introduction to the principles of environmental planning, this book takes a pragmatic case study approach. It provides the reader with an understanding of the structure of an ecosystem, as...
Genetically Engineered Crops builds on previous related Academies reports published between 1987 and 2010 by undertaking a retrospective examination of the purported positive and adverse effects of GE crops and to anticipate what emerging ...
More than 15 years after their first successful commercial introduction in the U.S., genetically engineered (GE) seeds have been widely adopted by U.S. corn, soybean, and cotton farmers. Still, some...
The book also discusses the weakness of institutional support for nurturing existing knowledge and exchange in organic agriculture.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming" that was published in Sustainability
For this edition, all statistical data and regional review chapters have been thoroughly updated.
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Franco, O.L., Rigden, D.J., Melo, F.R., Bloch, C. Jr., Silva, C.P., and Grossi de Sa, M.F. (2000) Activity of wheat alpha-amylase inhibitors towards bruchid alpha-amylases and structural explanation of observed specificities.
This book is intended to provide the basic information for a wide range of people involved in the release of transgenic crops.