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Instant Insights: Agroforestry Practices
This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the implementation of agroforestry practices.The first chapter reviews the use of integrated crop-livestock systems, with a focus …
Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes
Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contribute to climate change. A more regenerative …
Protecting Natural Capital and Biodiversity in the Agri-Food Sector
Natural capital accounting provides techniques to value natural resources and the ecosystem services they deliver. These techniques are being increasingly used by governments, …
Instant Insights: Fungicide Resistance in Cereals
This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on the development of fungicide resistance in agriculture.The first chapter examines how pathogens develop resistance to fungicides …
Instant Insights: Viruses Affecting Horticultural Crops
Instant Insights: Carbon Monitoring and Management in Forests
This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on carbon monitoring and management in forests.The first chapter summarises the effects of different forest management practices on …
Advances in Pig Breeding and Reproduction
In recent years, there have been significant developments in the way that pigs are bred. This is primarily as a result of a shift in focus from production traits, such as meat …
Understanding and Preventing Soil Erosion
It’s been suggested that around 12 million hectares of agricultural land are affected by soil erosion each year. If the degradation of the world’s soil reservoir continues, many …
Transforming Food Systems
There is an almost universal recognition that modern agri-food supply chains are unsustainable. They are seen as both contributing to and vulnerable to climate change, too reliant …
Advances in Agri-Food Robotics
The global population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Feeding this growing population more sustainably is a huge challenge facing agriculture. Developing agricultural …
Improving Water Management in Agriculture
Irrigated agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water use. However, an estimated 60% of irrigated cropland remains highly water-stressed, a problem intensified by the …
Instant Insights: Using Manure in Soil Management
This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on the utilisation of manure to improve soil management and health.The first chapter reviews ways to improve manure management in …