Dietary Guidelines, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are intended to help consume...

Grasslands provide both ecological and economic benefits. The importance of grasslands lies not only in the areas they cover, but also in the diver...

This book explores the structure and function of the U.S. nutrition research system, with an emphasis on trends in Federal support. It describes ho...

Rice, an ancient grain, is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, through its role in the diets of billions of low-income, f...

About 717,000 farms in the U.S. went out of business, or exited, between 1992 and 1997, but the total number of farms declined by just 13,400 becau...

This book on agriculture issues in the United States identifies the trends of agricultural trade, examines the commodity composition of agricultura...

U.S. agricultural trade generates employment, income and purchasing power in both the farm and non-farm sectors. This new book examines past trends...

The practice of urban agriculture has gained importance due to the rising rate of urban poverty and population in the developing regions. Urban Ag...

Urban pest management (IPM) is a broad-based approach that integrates practices for economic control of pests. IPM aims to suppress pest population...

Pollution of soil by metals and the associated ecological and health risks are currently matters of increasing concern. Due to the large concentrat...

Cities can also be important for the population numbers of certain species. One may expect that, in any given country, the proportion of bird speci...

The United States and the European Union (EU) have engaged in a long-standing and acrimonious trade dispute over the EU's decision to ban hormone-t...

Agriculture can be a field as favorable as industry for the application of automation. Computer-based sensors and actuators such as global position...

Value addition in meat industry has always attracted the consumers and processors world over for the reason it gives variety, choice of products to...

U.S. Agriculture is also changing rapidly from a sector characterised by production of undifferentiated bulk commodities sold in spot markets to on...

Vegetable crop production is vital to human health and should be of interest to everyone. The study of vegetable crops is a fundamental discipline ...

Vegetable growing is a substantial branch of horticulture. But it is no longer confined to growing in a small garden as vegetables are now cultivat...

Organic farming is a system approach utilizing the natural cycles and biological interactions for crop production and protection. It aims at harmon...

The vine is one of the oldest plants on the planet, whose remotes fossils date back more than 120 million years ago. It has been part of human civi...

"Water hyacinth is an aquatic plant which can live and reproduce floating freely on the surface of fresh waters or can be attached in mud. Plant si...

Different approaches and methodologies have become prominent for evaluating water quality remediation strategies, including Multiple Criteria Decis...

Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food. This book presents current research in the genetics, crop and food produc...

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...

There exists an enormous diversity of in the wild flora and fauna of earth. However, global environmental changes like climate change, deforestatio...

Wildlife tourism is one kind of niche tourism, which mainly attractions are natural resources, especially wild animals. Since the 1980’s, with more...

Farms and ranches operated by women have more than doubled in the last 30 years. Since 1978, the first year the Census of Agriculture collected dat...

A complete guide to sustainable, small-scale forest development for people who own a woodlot of one tree or many. Using recognized forestry princip...

The creation of WTO in 1995 and the globalisation trends of the recent past have impacted the world economies -- particularly those of developing c...

Maize is one of the moist important cereals for humanity. It is grown for grain and forage, which could be used for food, feed and industry process...

Zea mays L. is a potential producer of cereal crops and the dominant primary energy source of feed for monogastric animals, such as poultry. The fi...