Optimising breeding of dairy cows

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in dairy cow breeding, focussing on recent advances in the use of genomics, phenomics and other ‘omics’ technologies to improve the precision and applicability of dairy cow breeding.

The role of women smallholder farmers in achieving global food security: an overview

Women smallholder farmers across the globe play pivotal roles in enhancing global food security by contributing to food production, accessibility, stability and utilisation. These roles lack sufficient recognition in global food policies and are hindered by prevailing structural gender inequaliti...

The decision support system for agrotechnology transfer (dssat) crop modeling ecosystem: evolution and advances

This chapter describes the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) Crop Modeling ecosystem, its origin, advancements in model capabilities, addition of models for new crops, examples of model simulations of genetic improvement, and tools for data entry, calibration, analysis, ...

Soil health: definitions, history, key concepts and hurdles

This chapter reviews the history and trajectory of soil quality and soil health as global scientific objectives. Sections review definitions and drivers, key concepts, and hurdles that change this field of effort before considering evolving methodologies.

Digital phenotyping and genotype-to-phenotype (g2p) models to predict complex traits in cereal crops

The revolution in digital phenotyping combined with the new layers of omics and envirotyping tools offers great promise to improve selection and accelerate genetic gains for crop improvement. This chapter examines the latest methods involving digital phenotyping tools to predict complex traits in...

Assessing the environmental impact of ruminant production systems

One of the most common methods to evaluate environmental footprints of farming systems is life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCA itself is suitable for and adopted by a wide range of industries far beyond agriculture, what separates agriculture, and in particular pasture-based ruminant product...

Key concepts for conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

Agricultural lands that produce food, fibre and biofuels to sustain the human population represent the most widespread land use on Earth. Conserving global biodiversity will depend, largely, on how effectively species, communities and ecological processes are sustained in agricultural landscapes ...

Impact and management of hedgerows in promoting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

Farm hedgerows supply diverse benefits to agriculture including pollination, pest control and improved production related to biodiversity. They also provide additional ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, shelter for crops and livestock, human well-being, and a bucolic aesthetic. Th...

Forest certification – an answer to the challenge of sustainable forest management?

Eco-labelling forest products through forest certification is a market-driven tool with a global influence. It is also met with challenges in acceptance and diffusion among stakeholders. Here the authors aim to provide a synthesis of forest certification impact and place this in the context of sm...

Social and ethical considerations for agricultural robotics

Advances in the use of robotics in livestock production

Advances in connectivity and distributed intelligence in agricultural robotics

Advances in visual perception for agricultural robotics

Economics of agricultural robotics

Choreographies

Choreographer Jacky Lansley has been practicing and performing for more than four decades. In Choreographies, she offers unique insight into the processes behind independent choreography and paints a vivid portrait of a rigorous practice that combines dance, performance art, visuals and a close a...

A critical political economy of inflation

The book is an original critical economy account of the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation.

Shaping global cultures through screenwriting

A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...

Understanding and utilising soil microbiomes for a more sustainable agriculture

This collection summarises the wealth of recent research in understanding the fundamental importance of soil microbiomes in optimising soil and crop health. The book reviews advances in analytical techniques, the composition and dynamics of soil microbial communities and how they can be enhanced ...

Between the spreadsheets

Everyone talks about data quality issues, but not the consequences. From the top to the bottom of an organisation, everyone should understand the impact of dirty data and how to spot it. Being an entirely revised new edition, this book will show you how.

50 library lessons and ideas

This handbook will provide school librarians and teachers with ideas on how to establish library lessons and events that will encourage reading in children and young people. Written in a clear and concise manner, it aims to be a step-by-step guide to facing new challenges and finding new readers.

The lcp handbook to the late roman amphora

This handbook to the Late Roman Amphora 1 (LRA1) offers an up-to-date overview and user-friendly identification guide to known production sites, petrographic data, and current information on distribution, which stretches from Scotland and Wales to Yemen and India

A diary of the russian revolution

This book presents Houghteling’s original account along with explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the diary in the wider context of American interpretations and misinterpretations of the revolutions of 1917 that did so much to shape the twentieth century."

Unchained russia

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.

Surgeon grow

Malcolm Grow’s commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia’s experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of ...

Genocide: a thematic approach

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...

Universality and utopia

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy. 

Regimes of happiness

‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth

The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.