This 3-volume reference work comprehensively covers the important areas of agriculture and food science, covering important methods, practices and ideas in this growing discipline

Table of Contents

• Editorial Board
• Preface
• Permission Acknowledgments
• A
• Advances in Animal Biotechnology
• Advances in Pesticide Risk Reduction
• Agbiotechnology: Costs and Benefits of Genetically Modified Papaya
• Agribusiness Organization and Management
• Agricultural Cooperatives
• Agricultural Ethics and Social Justice
• Agricultural Finance
• Agricultural Labor: Demand for Labor
• Agricultural Labor: Gender Issues
• Agricultural Labor: Labor Market Operation
• Agricultural Labor: Supply of Labor
• Agricultural Law
• Agricultural Mechanization
• Agricultural Policy: A Global View
• Agroforestry: Complex Multistrata Agriculture
• Agroforestry: Conservation Trees and Erosion Prevention
• Agroforestry: Fertilizer Trees
• Agroforestry: Fodder Trees
• Agroforestry: Hydrological Impacts
• Agroforestry: Participatory Domestication of Trees
• Agroforestry: Practices and Systems
• Air: Confined Animal Facilities and Air Quality Issues
• Air: Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture
• Analyses of Total Phenolics, Total Flavonoids, and Total Antioxidant Activities in Foods and Dietary Supplements
• Animal Health: Ectoparasites
• Animal Health: Foot-and-Mouth Disease
• Animal Health: Global Antibiotic Issues
• Animal Health: Mycotoxins
• Animal Health: Tuberculosis
• Animal Welfare: Stress, Global Issues, and Perspectives
• Asian Aquaculture
• B
• Beef Cattle
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems
• Biodiversity: Conserving Biodiversity in Agroecosystems
• Biosecurity and Equine Infectious Diseases
• Biotechnology Crop Adoption: Potential and Challenges of Genetically Improved Crops
• Biotechnology: Herbicide-Resistant Crops
• Biotechnology: Pharming
• Biotechnology: Plant Protection
• Biotechnology: Regulatory Issues
• Breeding: Animals
• Breeding: Plants, Modern
• C
• Changing Structure and Organization of US Agriculture
• Climate Change: Agricultural Mitigation
• Climate Change and Plant Disease
• Climate Change: Animal Systems
• Climate Change: Cropping System Changes and Adaptations
• Climate Change: Horticulture
• Climate Change: New Breeding Pressures and Goals
• Climate Change, Society, and Agriculture: An Economic and Policy Perspective
• Cloning Animals by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transplantation
• Cloning: Plants – Micropropagation/Tissue Culture
• Computer Modeling: Applications to Environment and Food Security
• Computer Modeling: Policy Analysis and Simulation
• Consumer-Oriented New Product Development
• Critical Tracking Events Approach to Food Traceability
• Crop Insurance
• Crop Pollination
• D
• Dairy Animals
• Detection and Causes of Bovine Mastitis with Emphasis on Staphylococcus aureus
• Determining Functional Properties and Sources of Recently Identified Bioactive Food Components: Oligosaccharides, Glycolipids, Glycoproteins, and Peptides
• Domestication of Animals
• Domestication of Plants
• Dust Pollution from Agriculture
• E
• Ecoagriculture: Integrated Landscape Management for People, Food, and Nature
• Economics of Natural Resources and Environment in Agriculture
• Edaphic Soil Science, Introduction to
• Emerging Plant Diseases
• Emerging Zoonoses in Domesticated Livestock of Southeast Asia
• Energy and Greenhouse Gases Footprint of Food Processing
• F
• Farm Management
• Fermentation: Food Products
• Fermented Beverages
• Food Chain: Farm to Market
• Food Engineering
• Food Labeling
• Food Law
• Food Marketing
• Food Microbiology
• Food Packaging
• Food Safety: Emerging Pathogens
• Food Safety: Food Analysis Technologies/Techniques
• Food Safety: Shelf Life Extension Technologies
• Food Security: Development Strategies
• Food Security: Food Defense and Biosecurity
• Food Security, Market Processes, and the Role of Government Policy
• Food Security: Postharvest Losses
• Food Security: Yield Gap
• Food Toxicology
• Forage Crops
• From Foraging to Agriculture
• G
• Genebanks: Past, Present, and Optimistic Future
• Genomics of Food Animals
• Genomics: Plant Genetic Improvement
• Global Agriculture: Industrial Feedstocks for Energy and Materials
• Global Food Supply Chains
• Government Agricultural Policy, United States
• Green Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
• H
• Heterosis in Plants
• Human Nutrition: Malnutrition and Diet
• I
• Industrialized Farming and Its Relationship to Community Well-Being
• Integrated Pest Management in Tree Fruit Crops
• Intellectual Property in Agriculture
• International and Regional Institutions and Instruments for Agricultural Policy, Research, and Development
• International Trade
• Invasive Aquatic Animals
• Invasive Species: Plants
• Investments in and the Economic Returns to Agricultural and Food R&D Worldwide
• L
• Land Use: Catchment Management
• Land Use, Land Cover, and Food-Energy-Environment Trade-Off: Key Issues and Insights for Millennium Development Goals
• Land Use: Management for Biodiversity and Conservation
• Land Use: Restoration and Rehabilitation
• Linkages of the Agricultural Sector: Models and Precautions
• M
• Marek's Disease and Differential Diagnosis with Other Tumor Viral Diseases of Poultry
• Market-Based Incentives for the Conservation of Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes: Examples from Coffee Cultivation in Latin America
• Markets and Prices
• Mathematical Models to Elaborate Plans for Adaptation of Rural Communities to Climate Change
• Medicinal Crops
• Mineral Nutrition and Suppression of Plant Disease
• N
• Natural Capital, Ecological Infrastructure, and Ecosystem Services in Agroecosystems
• O
• Organic Agricultural Production: Plants
• Organic Livestock Production
• P
• Pathogen-Tested Planting Material
• Plant Abiotic Stress: Salt
• Plant Abiotic Stress: Temperature Extremes
• Plant Abiotic Stress: Water
• Plant Biotic Stress: Weeds
• Plant Cloning: Macropropagation
• Plant Disease and Resistance
• Plant Health Management: Biological Control of Insect Pests
• Plant Health Management: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens
• Plant Health Management: Crop Protection with Nematicides
• Plant Health Management: Fungicides and Antibiotics
• Plant Health Management: Herbicides
• Plant Health Management: Pathogen Suppressive Soils
• Plant Health Management: Soil Fumigation
• Plant Health Management: Soil Solarization
• Plant Virus Control by Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing
• Policy Frameworks for International Agricultural and Rural Development
• Poultry and Avian Diseases
• Precision Agriculture: Irrigation
• Production Economics
• Public–Private Partnerships in Agroforestry
• Q
• Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics
• Quarantine and Biosecurity
• R
• Regulatory Challenges to Commercializing the Products of Ag Biotech
• Regulatory Conventions and Institutions that Govern Global Agricultural Trade
• Root and Tuber Crops
• Rural Sociology
• S
• Safety of Street Food: Indonesia's Experience
• Sensory Science
• Simulation Modeling: Applications in Cropping Systems
• Slum Livestock Agriculture
• Small Ruminants in Smallholder Integrated Production Systems
• Social Justice: Preservation of Cultures in Traditional Agriculture
• Soil: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Systems
• Soil: Conservation Practices
• Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
• Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Their Mitigation
• Soil: Nutrient Cycling
• Spices and Aromatics
• Stem Cells
• Sugar Crops
• Swine Diseases and Disorders
• T
• Terroir: The Application of an Old Concept in Modern Viticulture
• Transgenic Methodologies – Plants
• Tree Fruits and Nuts
• V
• Vaccines and Vaccination Practices: Key to Sustainable Animal Production
• Virtual Water and Water Footprint of Food Production and Processing
• Vitamins and Food-Derived Biofactors
• W
• Water: Advanced Irrigation Technologies
• Water Use: Recycling and Desalination for Agriculture
• Water: Water Quality and Challenges from Agriculture
• Weather Forecasting Applications in Agriculture
• World Water Supply and Use: Challenges for the Future
• Z
• Zoonotic Helminths of Livestock