Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of solutions that can advance pathways towards sustainable food futures. Complete with recipes, this book is structured so that readers are taken …

Saving the Tropical Forests

The destruction of the tropical forest is one of the major problems of our time. Vast areas are rapidly becoming wastelands which support only a few tough weeds, perhaps some cattle, and the farms allowed to the poor. This book provides a vision of hope: in Latin America. Africa. And South East Asia, growing numbers of people are developing techniques specifically designed to promote the wise …

Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets : Human, Animal and Planetary Health

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system, this book argues for a radical change in farming and food consumption…

Political ecology of REDD+ in Indonesia : agrarian conflicts and forest carbon

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Technological Innovations in Tropical Livestock Development for Environmental…

This book contains the proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Tropical Animal Production for Food Security (ITAPS) exploring Technological Innovations in Tropical Livestock Development for Environmental Sustainability and Food Security. It discusses two interconnected issues: tropical livestock farming and environmental concerns, while addressing the adoption of innovative techn…

Creative work: conditions, contexts and practices

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Developing modern livestock production in tropical countries: proceedings of …

Animal production Animal nutritionAnimal reproduction and breedingAnimal product and agribusinessLivestock engineering

Media, place and tourism: a world of imagination

Introduction: Worlds of imagination / Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Apoorva Nanjangud, Deborah Castro, Rosa Schiavone and Débora Póvoa -- The runaway production of A daughter of the gods : film, tourism and empire in early twentieth-century Jamaica / Emiel

Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

ABSTRACT Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on d…

Cellular dialogues in the holobiont

ABSTRACT This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of protist-, animal-, and plant-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of biology. The establishment and maintenance of these interactions and their contributions to the health and survival of all partners relies on continuous cell-to-cell com…