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Advances in Measuring Soil Health
Understanding and measuring the different dimensions of soil health is key to achieving regenerative agriculture. There has been a wealth of research on developing better …
Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Systems
Climate change is a key threat to agriculture. Modelling is fundamental to assessing its potential impacts. This collection summarises the wealth of research on improving climate …
Seaweed and Microalgae as Alternative Sources of Protein
"…this book covers a range of algal phyla, specialised algal bioprocessing and application topics that make it very interesting for a broad audience. Each chapter covers a theme in …
Understanding and Fostering Soil Carbon Sequestration
Soils are known to be an enormous reservoir of carbon and represent an important and dynamic part of the global carbon cycle. However, this reservoir is under constant threat due …
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Wheat Volume 2
"These books present a comprehensive coverage of issues facing wheat production globally. The authors represent the top scientists involved in the diverse areas that are important …
Improving Data Management and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture
This collection reviews and summarises the wealth of research on key challenges in developing better data management and decision support systems (DSS) for farmers and examples of …
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Volume 1
Grain legumes are characterised by their nutritional value, an ability to grow rapidly and improve soil health by fixing nitrogen. This makes them a key rotation crop in promoting …
Developing Drought-Resistant Cereals
Drought remains the biggest single threat from climate change to the production of key cereal crops, such as wheat and barley. Cereals also respond in complex ways to drought …
Agroforestry for Sustainable Agriculture
Agroforestry seeks to balance protection of forest resources, the exploitation of the ecosystem services that trees can contribute to agriculture and the role of agroforestry in …
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Bananas Volume 2
Despite bananas being the world’s most exported and valuable fruit, banana production faces a number of challenges, primarily the extremely narrow genetic base currently available …
Advances in Plant Phenotyping for More Sustainable Crop Production
“Compared to other books that primarily focus on plant phenotyping applications, this book provides an in-depth analysis of plant traits and the critical needs for high throughput …
Understanding Gut Microbiomes as Targets for Improving Pig Gut Health
"As a nutritionist I liked this book a lot. I like the setup of the book and how it starts with the gut microbiome and works through to the different ways to manipulate the gut …