This book aims to build on and extend the wealth of information presented in a previous book, Agrobiodiversity: Characterization, Utilization and Management (Wood and Lenň, 1999), to show how agrobiodiversity can effectively and efficiently be managed for food security. Chapter …
Food security has been and always will be a human concern. Food security has always been fragile, threatened by a variety of factors including plant disease epidemics. Several plant disease epidemics of the past lead to questions like: What happened? How did people deal with the…
While the right to adequate food is often discussed in the context of developing countries, especially in situations where access to adequate food is a problem on a larger scale, this book focusses on the right to food in two Western countries in which theoretically the circumst…
Essays on recent developments in agriculture-oriented human geography - examines developments in theory and methodology, problems of classification of farming systems, innovations in cultivation systems, and agribusiness in developed countries; analyses agricultural policies in …
Antioxidants in Food and Biology: Facts and Fiction is a handbook designed to help all those who need to understand the science underlying prevention and control of oxidation, or to understand the properties of antioxidants in food, nutrition, health and medicine. It conveys the…
Genetically modified (GM) (or transgenic) crops are produced using plant biotechnology to select desirable characteristics in plants and transfer genes from one organism to another. As a result, crops can survive under harsher conditions, costs are lowered, chemical application…
