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The first book to bring together scholars, students, industry leaders, policy makers and related national institutes in collaboration across a range of case studies.

Schistosomiasis is Africa's second most prevalent infectious disease after malaria and is a neglected tropical disease. This book offers a unique perspective on a successful health initiative that can serve as a model for other diseases. It will be of interest to those working in global health and disease control.

Nematodes, with a simple, tubular body form are the most abundant multicellular animals on earth. Freshwater nematodes are central in the context of environmental monitoring, pollution assessments, global warming and food chain complexes, and this is increasingly being recognised.

Covering global production systems of insect protein, oil and chitin, as well as industry co-products, this book considers nutritional and safety aspects of insects for feed. It reviews the challenges of regulation and legislation, consumer acceptance, and commercialisation of insects, and sustainable practices such as waste valorisation.

A comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, with superb colour illustrations to aid comprehension of many of the plant terms.

This book describes the central role that these exotic luxuries - spices, scents and silks - played in the lives of the ancients, traces the development of the great international trade networks that delivered them, and explores how the demand for such luxuries shaped the world.

International authors review achievements, new developments, trends and challenges in plant mutation breeding, across the scientific community and the private sector. Chapters highlight specific challenges, such as emerging transboundary threats to crop production, and assess the overall importance of mutation breeding to food security.

This study and revision guide for students provides a series of exercises of various types in matters of catchment and watershed management. The exercises are true/false, multiple choice, numeric, graphical, and analytical. Some of the exercises would be suited to being done in class as a type of assignment, others designed for home study.

Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, development and challenge. The experiences explored range from suburban outdoors to wild places, children to seniors, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to summer camps.

This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which zoo and aquarium biology and management are important components. It contains 500 multiple-choice questions (and annotated answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced.

This book contains information on ~100 invasive plant nematodes and their potential threat in different countries.

The focus of this book is on verbal presentations and posters. It begins with best practices, then applies these practices to three-minute talks, posters, elevator pitches and longer presentations. It ends with a discussion audience types and presentation skills.

Extensively illustrated with over 300 colour photographs, this book describes how to diagnose hemp and cannabis crop diseases. It is a practical guide for farmers and growers, as well as researchers in plant pathology.

Greenland is now a critical territory in terms of tourism, climate change and competition for resource access. This book explores the dimensions of dynamic change in the Arctic, examining the three interrelationships specifically in the Greenland context but within a framework that emphasises the wider global implications.

Covering global production systems of insect protein, oil and chitin, as well as industry co-products, this book considers nutritional and safety aspects of insects for feed. It reviews the challenges of regulation and legislation, consumer acceptance, and commercialisation of insects, and sustainable practices such as waste valorisation.

This book describes the fundamental processes involved in the accumulation of biomass and the production of grain yield by agronomic crops and discusses how these processes underlie and influence management decisions.

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice, including practitioner perspectives and a range of case study examples. It covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges.

This concise workbook is written as a guide for veterinary professionals to support owners through the many challenges they face before, during and after the death of their companion animal.

Burbot is an excellent source for all those involved in freshwater fish and fisheries management, conservation and exploitation

Dioscorea species, commonly known as yam, are tuberous plants which constitute a major staple food in many parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. This book covers botany, taxonomy, composition and uses, cultivation, production, diseases and pests, and storage.

This fully updated new edition provides a comprehensive guide to enzyme-supplemented animal feeds. It explores using enzymes in fish and shrimp diets, new understanding of how phytases function, and NSPase research. It also includes new chapters on enzyme combinations, antibiotic free diets and measuring response in feed trials.

Conservation Agriculture (the use of no tillage systems) to preserve soil structure and integrity has become an increasingly important step towards sustainable farming. This book brings together conservation agriculture and climate smart decision making processes for the first time, focusing on Africa.

This book describes the background and present state of pest management in cotton crops throughout the world. Cotton is one of the most economically important crops globally, and new, emerging pests driven by climate change, for example, are proving increasingly problematic. The book highlights new techniques in cotton crop protection.

Urban soils provide the foundation for buildings and infrastructure, and the medium for plant growth in fields, parks and gardens. This text recognises and draws attention to the particular nature of soils in urban environments and discusses their distinctive management needs.

This manual shows how value chain analysis (VCA) principles can be applied in developing countries, where time and funding is often restricted. It explains how to undertake affordable VCA that generate valid data and produce recommendations that will have impact.

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections, and provide predictions for the future.

The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to conduct research to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

The aim of the book is to help researchers and graduate animal science students to understand how to conduct research to advance animal welfare through the integration of disciplines.

This book looks at contemporary marketing tools utilised by various Western-European countries. It presents case studies on how tourism marketing in this region has been handled and evolved in an era of contradictory forces such as competitiveness versus sustainability, locality versus globalisation, maturity versus new product development.

Fully updated, this incorporates the impacts of the EU expansion, changes to financial support of agriculture, financial crises, economic recession and unemployment. The inclusion of chapter-focused exercises, essay questions and further reading make this textbook a valuable learning tool for students of agriculture, economics and related sectors.