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This book examines evidence on the wealth of farming households, and concludes that in nearly all member states, they are not generally a poor societal sector. This new edition discusses the evidence, makes recommendations for gathering information, and considers the implications for the CAP as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.

The book represents essential reading for landscape historians, geographers, foresters, ecologists, conservationists and land managers with an interest in European forests and is also a useful source for advanced students of these disciplines.

This book documents the latest research, covering current and promising activities in four key areas: computational chemistry and chemoinformatics, High Throughput Screening (HTS), non-vertebrate model hosts and light and nano-based technologies.

Disease resistance can help sustain yield potential in cultivated crops. This book looks at disease resistance in wheat, concentrating on all of the economically important diseases - their economic impact and geographical spread, breeding for resistance, pathogen variability, resistance mechanisms and recent advances made on resistance genes.

Good animal husbandry practices and animal health are vital for people in poorer countries. This practical manual is a guide for those who train farmers in poor countries, taking into account traditional farming systems, existing inputs and resources, sustainable farming initiatives and advising on the right approaches to training.

Invasive arthropods cause significant damage in agricultural crops and natural environments across the globe. This book focuses on the most recent invasive pests of agricultural crops in temperate subtropical and tropical areas and on potential invaders, discussing their spread, biology and control.

Tuberculosis is a global health threat and this book features contributions from a range of experts that captures the latest developments in the advent of bacteriological, immunological and molecular tools for diagnosis and the development of new drugs.

This book provides a comprehensive, species-by-species account of all the world's tree-dwelling aphids. It can be used both as an identification guide by entomologists and taxonomists, and as a database in studies of biosystematics and biodiversity.

Bringing together reasons for why and where weeds occur and the ecological importance of weed management, this updated edition provides an in-depth study of plant ecology with greater coverage of invasive plant biology and more concise statistics.

This books aims to fill the gap in our understanding of mites. It surveys life cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites, without requiring prior knowledge of their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water and mites on plants and animals.

This book is the third in a set of four providing a series on controlled reproduction in farm animals. This third volume focuses on pigs. It will appeal to reproductive physiologists and workers in animal production, animal breeding and veterinary medicine.

The book describes the technical advances that have been made in the various process steps, and also indicate the probable configuration of a biomass to ethanol plant. This book will interest researchers, engineers and industrialists.

This book has its origin in a special symposium held at the VIII World Congress on Animal Production held in June 1998 in Korea. Additional chapters have been specially commissioned for inclusion in the book.

Approximately 250 species of fruit fly have been found in association with commercially produced fruits and vegetables, with the market increasing worldwide for these sorts of comestibles, demand is growing for knowledge on these pests.

This book presents edited and revised versions of the most significant papers from the management section of the congress. The papers demonstrate the vigour and developing nature of management studies in leisure, both of an applied and theoretical nature.

This book differs from other texts which tend to describe production economics followed by the presentation of analytical approaches. Instead, the processes of agricultural production and their management are couched in terms of activity analysis, since this permits greater integration of theory with practical evaluations.

This book aims to provide a practical, working guide to the taxa of the Aphelenchida, Longidoridae and Trichodoridae, in such a form as to facilitate usage by both specialist taxonomists and general nematologists.

The book is in two parts. Part 1 covers all aspects relevant to seed production, including improving seed yield and quality, crop management, harvesting, processing and the international seed trade. Part 2 consists of eleven case studies from eight countries covering three continents.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland nitrogen incorporating information from crop science, soils and fertilizers, ruminant consumption and environmental aspects. The published information is reviewed on the various transformations of nitrogen in temperate grassland systems.

Written by international experts, this book is based on proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Egg Nutrition and Newly Emerging Ovo-Biotechnologies, held in Banff, Canada, in April 1998.

An authoritative account of the history, distribution and taxonomy of Lupinus species and the current knowledge of all aspects of their agronomy and impact on agriculture.

This book is essential for all soil scientists and consultants. It is of particular relevance to those involved in soil health monitoring and maintenance as well as those undertaking soil remediation.

The second edition of this acclaimed dictionary conatins even more definitions of horticultural phrases and words.

This book addresses these topical issues and is based on a Discussion Meeting held at the Royal Society, London, in April 1998. Contributors include scientists from leading research groups in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. The papers have also been published as an issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences.

This book discussed the reform of the common agricultural policy.

This volume discusses the Coelomycetes in all their varied forms.

Drawing on studies from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland, this book provides the first comprehensive international review of the economics of organic farming.

This is the four volume set of the acclaimed series in controlled reproduction in farm animals.

This book analyses the major challenges facing tourism today. The author highlights the central role of information technology in creating mass tourism by the mid-1970's, and how this technology and innovation is creating a new "best practice" of flexibility, market segmentation and diagonal integration within tourism.

The book enables readers to select suitable preservation procedures for their purposes, gives information on the growth and maintenance of fungi and provides the background to manage a collection of microorganisms both safely and effectively.