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This book is the result of a study on demand-led plant variety design for markets in Africa, sharing best practices from private and public sector programmes worldwide that are applicable to improving tropical crops in Africa. It covers areas such as the principles of demand-led plant breeding, understanding client demands and breeding strategy.

This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development from across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures. It synthesises experiences and exchanges with country experts from international training courses, study tours and seminars.

This book reflects current understanding of the prevention of major chronic and some infectious diseases by tea and tea constituents. It explores common emerging themes related to the actions of tea polyphenols against different diseases, offering up-to-date data, evidence and comprehensive research.

The markets for organic and fair trade commodities are growing rapidly, so it is vital to assess if it is feasible to meet growing demands regarding food safety, quality and ethics through smallholder and marginal producers. This book analyses sustainable development and poverty reduction through global case studies in these areas.

This comprehensive book acts as a guide to understanding maize kernel development. It covers topics spanning pre- and post-fertilization events, embryo and endosperm development, grain filling and maturation, and factors that influence crop yield. It addresses existing hypotheses plus important gaps in our knowledge and how we might fill them.

Rhizosphere biology is approaching a century of investigations wherein Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria have attracted special attention for their ability to enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability. This book explores recent developments and global issues in biopesticide research, including extended case studies.

Tourism and hospitality services are prone to service-failure due to a high level of customer-employee contact. This is an invaluable source of information that includes student aids, real-life examples, case studies, links to websites and activities alongside questions and presentation slides for in-class use.

Warm-water island destinations are facing challenges in the wake of increasing globalization and susceptibility to external shocks. This book covers critical aspects that contribute to tourism development and growth. It presents research themes, methodology and case studies, including a focus on Cuba and its reintroduction to the tourism landscape.

Older adults are a growing population with money and time to invest in leisure and tourism. This book provides the latest research, new trends such as independent travel, the leisure experience, cultural and heritage tourism, cruises and wellness tourism, and case studies of organizations successfully catering to older needs.

Linking strategic thinking with action for the management of tourism, this book evaluates global trends, analyses environmental impact and reviews the major factors affecting international tourism management. Now in its third edition, this well-established resource includes extra pedagogy such as learning objectives, questions and case studies.

Written by an international team of experts, this unique edited volume focuses on applications of automation technology to the important industry of tree fruit production. It is aimed at researchers and graduate students of agricultural and biological engineering, crop and soil sciences, precision agriculture, and other relevant disciplines.

Variation in UV-B radiation is crucial to climate change and crop productivity. This book focuses on its environmental interactions, and how plants both protect themselves against UV-B and are stimulated by it.

Focusing on the creation and distribution of packaged holidays, this text covers the fundamentals of business and the relationship between tour operators and destinations. With particular reference to sustainability, it provides a wealth of information regarding eco, nature and adventure trips, as well as niche and special interest products.

This book provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of research and applications of IPM in tropical regions. It explores the agro-ecological framework of IPM and emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods central to pest control, and by a crop-based approach details IPM applications in tropical food crops, fibre crops and forests.

This book addresses indigenous knowledge's (IK) potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply, reversing environmental degradation and promoting sustainable practices. It draws together strands of biocultural diversity research into natural resources management, providing an overview of conceptual issues.

This second edition has been completely updated, addressing how to formulate organic diets as well as the feasibility of using novel feedstuffs and their acceptability by consumers. It includes international standards of organic feeding, feed-related disease in organic herds, and producers' experiences of appropriate breeds and production systems.

This practical, full-colour book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids. It covers growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil and water management, postharvest management, economics, marketing, and pest identification and management.

Illustrated with over 1000 color images, this is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle and their calves. With summary key features, it correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses, covering naked-eye macroscopic appearance, microscopic pathology and immunohistochemistry.

Capacity building is an important concept in development - this book pulls together theoretical and applied approaches and explains how sustainable outcomes can be achieved for a range of examples.

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalized world. It analyses their development in specific places and the effects of the increasing connectedness and mobility of people. It integrates global experiences by discussing mobility, agriculture, gender identities and international development.

Invasive alien plants pose a major threat to agriculture, the natural environment and livelihoods worldwide and create challenges for development. This book emphasizes the social and economic implications of plant invasion and discusses direct impacts on livelihoods and biodiversity.

Tourism, hospitality and event managers seek to provide 'wow' experiences to their visitors through better design and management. This book encourages the discussion of different facets of experience design such as emotions, attentions, sensations, learning, the process of co-creation and experiential stimuli design.

Will over-population, global poverty, widespread hunger and environmental degradation lead to the collapse of human civilization? This book provides a dispassionate analysis of the state of these problems in the world.

Mycological paper discussing a contribution to the systematics of Cladosporium.

The first book to provide a general introductory overview of the scientific principles underlying production of all three crops. This is a broad-based text for students of agriculture, horticulture and food science, as well as professionals seeking an overview of the topic.

This paperback reprint of a successful book offers knowledge for the management of irrigation and drainage systems, including traditional technical areas of systems operation and maintenance, and expanding managerial, institutional and organizational aspects. Chapters provide guidelines to improve management, operation and maintenance processes.

Livestock housing is a major determinant of animal health, welfare and productivity. This book presents the important principles and processes by which housing influences these outcomes, and shows how an understanding of these can be translated into specifications for housing designs.

This is a directory of all Chinese agricultural related organisation including those concerned with production, postharvest and commerce.

This work discusses the Colletotrichum including their biology, pathology and control mechanisms.

The last volume in this acclaimed series on the advancement of veterinary science.