Instant Insights: Septoria tritici blotch in cereals

This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews of septoria tritici blotch in cereals.

Instant Insights: Fungicide resistance in cereals

This book reviews the development of resistance to the core group of fungicides used throughout global crop production. Chapters explore the mechanisms of resistance, as well as the challenges facing future fungicide development.

Instant Insights: Poultry housing systems

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on poultry housing systems.

Advances in monitoring of native and invasive insect pests of crops

Early detection of insect pests is critical to successful integrated pest management (IPM) programmes. This collection reviews the wealth of research on improving monitoring techniques for the detection of both native and alien insect pests.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production

This collection reviews measurement and modelling of methane emissions and current mitigation strategies, including improving breeding and health, manure management as well as the role of grassland and feed supplements.

Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in research on key aspects of poultry behaviour and welfare monitoring. Part 2 discusses particular welfare issues affecting broilers and layers such as housing and environmental enrichment as well as problems such as injurious pecking and bone health.

The sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems

This volume reviews recent research on effective support to improve smallholder livelihoods. After discussing the economics of smallholder farming, the book looks at access to key inputs before assessing ways of improving extension and other services to support sustainable production practices.

Improving water management in agriculture

This collection considers current challenges facing irrigated agriculture and reviews the wealth of research on the range of interventions which can be applied to address these challenges, from understanding and managing water flows at the watershed scale, through to improved use of water resources.

Instant Insights: Sweetpotato

This specially curated collection features three reviews of current topics and key research in sweetpotato.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of barley

This collection reviews advances in understanding barley physiology and genetics, molecular breeding and cultivation techniques, as well as disease and weed management. It also discusses advances in improving barley for end uses such as malting and brewing.

Instant Insights: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agriculture.

Understanding and improving crop photosynthesis

This collection reviews the wealth of research on the different ways of improving C₃ photosynthesis in crops and how to use this knowledge to achieve sustainable improvements in yields in the face of climate change.

Instant Insights: Fusarium in cereals

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current topics and key research in fusarium in cereals.

Understanding and minimising fungicide resistance

This collection reviews the wealth of research on understanding the development of fungicide resistance and preventative measures to limit the problem and its impact on effective control of crop diseases.

Key issues in agricultural ethics

This collection explores key ethical debates surrounding agriculture and agri-food supply chains, including issues such as animal welfare, use of labour, the effects of new technologies and the overall impact of agriculture on the environment. It considers the ways these ethical dilemmas may be b...

Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1

This volume focuses on breeding new varieties with desirable traits such as drought tolerance and improved nutritional value as well as how such innovations can be successfully deployed in the developing world.

Robotics and automation for improving agriculture

Robotics has great potential in improving productivity and precision in agriculture. The book reviews advances in technologies such as machine vision and control systems, as well as applications from crop planting, fertilisation, pest and weed management to livestock production.

Understanding and improving crop root function

Part 1 in this collection reviews recent research on understanding root system architecture and growth together key interactions in the rhizosphere. Parts 2 and 3 assess how roots respond to biotic and abiotic stresses whilst Part 4 explores how this understanding can be used to optimise root fun...

Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 2

The second volume in this two-volume collection focusses on ways of improving the management of pests and diseases of soybean. It also reviews research on improving the nutritional value and shelf-life of soybeans as well as its uses in animal feed and biodiesel.

Improving soil health

This collection summarises current research on the effects of different management strategies on the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. It assesses the viability of these management strategies, including zero tillage and intercropping, as a means for improving crop yield, ecos...

Instant Insights: Fertiliser use in agriculture

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on fertiliser use in agriculture.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 2

The second volume in this collection focusses on improving the cultivation of particular grain legumes, starting with common beans, lentils, soybeans and groundnuts. A second group of chapters discusses cowpea, faba beans and pigeonpea.

Advances in measuring soil health

This volume begins with a review of advances in measuring soil biological activity. Parts 2 and 3 survey developments in measuring soil physical and chemical properties. The collection concludes by reviewing soil health indicators and decision support systems for improving soil management.

Advances in postharvest management of horticultural produce

Postharvest losses remain a serious problem in the fresh produce sector. This collection reviews advances in preservation and disinfection, monitoring and management techniques to optimise safety and quality of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Instant Insights: Ecosystem services delivered by forests

This collection provides a considered overview of the range of ecosystem services delivered by tropical, temperate and boreal forests. Chapters explore the role of forests in storing carbon, improving hydrological cycles and optimising soil health.

Reconciling agricultural production with biodiversity conservation

The first part of this volume assesses general issues such as landscape approaches, mapping and assessing the economic value of biodiversity. Part 2 reviews management practices promoting biodiversity such as field margins, hedgerows, improved pasture management and agroforestry.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2

The second in this two-volume sequence discusses advances in understanding and managing pests and diseases. It also reviews ways of assessing its nutritional qualities as well as in measuring and minimising its environment impact.

Women and smallholder farming

This book highlights the day-to-day challenges faced by women smallholders in regions such as Africa, Asia and South America, whilst also considering how key stakeholders across the agri-food supply chain can support, empower and sufficiently compensate women smallholder farmers for their contrib...

Instant Insights: Using manure in soil management

This book reviews recent advances in the utilisation of livestock manure to improve soil management and health. Chapters discuss best practices for the storage, treatment and processing of livestock manure, as well as the effects of manure application on the ability of soil to deliver a range of ...

Instant Insights: Soil health indicators

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on soil health indicators.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 2

Sugarcane cultivation faces a range of challenges to improve yields sustainably. This volumes reviews how these challenges can be addressed through developments in breeding as well as better management of pests and diseases.

Instant Insights: Fruit losses and waste

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on fruit losses and waste.

Instant Insights: Supporting cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on supporting cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa.

Instant Insights: Intercropping

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the use of intercropping across agriculture, focussing on its use to manage and improve soil health, as well as its use in temperate agroforestry systems to mitigate the sector’s environmental impact.

Instant Insights: Sensor technologies in livestock monitoring

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on sensor technologies in livestock monitoring.

Instant Insights: Managing arthropod pests in tree fruit

This collection reviews the available methods for managing arthropod pests affecting global tree fruit production. Chapters consider the use of integrated pest management programmes as a more sustainable control method in the face of increasing pesticide regulatory restrictions and concerns surro...

Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 1

This book provides a detailed review of current research on key components and quality traits of milk as well as ways of measuring milk quality. It then discusses genetic factors affecting these traits and how they can be used to improve breeding of dairy cows.

Instant Insights: Improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs

This book offers a detailed overview of best practices to improve the welfare of growing and finishing pigs, focussing on elements of nutrition, behaviour, housing, transport and handling.

Biopesticides for sustainable agriculture

Part 1 of this collection reviews research on developing and assessing new biopesticides. Part 2 summarises advances in different types of entomopathogenic biopesticide. Part 3 assesses semiochemical, peptide-based and other natural substance-based biopesticides.

Developing circular agricultural production systems

This collection summarises the wealth of research on the ways of achieving circular agricultural production systems through using minimal inputs, closing nutrient loops, reducing emissions and reusing and valorising agricultural wastes.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1

This book reviews advances in breeding techniques as well as their application to produce drought-resistant and other improved varieties. It also discusses wheat nutritional quality. Finally it reviews developments such as disease-resistant varieties and other techniques to combat pests and disea...

Instant Insights: Unmanned aircraft systems in agriculture

This book provides a useful overview of the use of unmanned aircraft systems/unmanned aerial vehicles in an array of agricultural settings for differing purposes, such as their use in turfgrass systems to measure and monitor specific targets.

Transforming food systems

This book assesses one of the great global challenges of our time: how to reform food systems so they are more sustainable but still able to produce the food we need. It reviews the pros and cons of reformist, progressive and radical solutions and how we might choose between them.

Understanding and preventing soil erosion

This collection reviews the range of research on understanding the mechanisms of soil erosion, as well as advances in techniques for measuring erosion. The book also addresses recent developments in mitigation strategies to reduce soil erosion such as zero/no-tillage, buffer strips and soil stabi...

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 ...

Instant Insights: Mite pests in agriculture

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on mite pests in agriculture.

Instant Insights: Environmental impact of livestock production

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on the environmental impact of livestock production.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 1

This collection begins by reviewing the current state of cassava cultivation, before going on to review the range of techniques enabling sustainable intensification, from seed systems management to intercropping and post-harvest management.

Instant Insights: Crop rotations

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on crop rotations in agriculture.

Advances in sheep production

This collection reviews the key challenges facing sheep production, including evolving consumer expectations, concerns about sustainability, as well as One Health issues. The book also considers how grazing systems and nutritional approaches can be managed to optimise sheep health and welfare.

Plant genetic resources

This collection addresses the challenges of maintaining and benefitting from plant genetic diversity. Part 1 assesses ways of valuing and monitoring plant genetic diversity. Part 2 discusses advances in in-situ and ex-situ strategies for conserving plant genetic diversity. The final section revie...

Instant Insights: Biodiversity management practices

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on biodiversity management practices in agriculture.

Instant Insights: Developing immunity in poultry

This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on developing immunity in poultry.

Instant Insights: Improving water management in crop cultivation

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on improving water management in crop cultivation.

Instant Insights: Zero/no-till cultivation

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation of zero/no-till cultivation practices across agriculture and the consequent effects on soil health, productivity and other soil functions.

Instant Insights: Ensuring the welfare of laying hens

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the key welfare issues affecting laying hens, as well as the measures and practices which can be put in place to prevent their occurrence. Chapters review the range of welfare issues affecting laying hens in conventional cages, enriched cages a...

Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1

Potatoes have long been one of the world’s most important crops. The first volume in this two-volume sequence reviews advances in understanding plant physiology, genetics and breeding. It also discusses ways of understanding the nutritional and sensory properties of potatoes.

Water management for sustainable agriculture

There is increasing competition for water resources with declining aquifer reserves and lower rainfall in some areas due to climate change. This volume reviews research into topics such as more sustainable use of groundwater, more efficient irrigation techniques and water management.

Instant Insights: Advances in fertilisers and fertiliser technology

This book provides a detailed overview of the history, current status and future needs of fertiliser developments in an era where sustainability is of paramount importance. Chapters also review recent advances in the use of fertiliser technologies, such as crop sprayers.

Instant Insights: Integrated crop-livestock systems

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on integrated crop–livestock systems in agriculture.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2

Volume 2 reviews genetic resources and breeding techniques as well as their use to produce varieties with traits such as enhanced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. It also discusses key pests and diseases and their management in making cultivation more efficient and sustainable.

Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2

Soil health is critical to a successful agriculture. This second volume reviews ways of classifying and measuring soils and their properties. It then discusses ways soil health can be maintained or enhanced to ensure sustainable agricultural production, as well as regional case studies of managin...

Instant Insights: Improving the health and welfare of heifers and calves

The collection discusses best practices for improving the welfare of heifers and calves, as well as the consequences which can arise as a result of these welfare conditions not being met. Chapters consider the use of monitoring technologies as a means of identifying abnormal behaviours which can ...

Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1

Soybeans are widely grown for use in food, animal feed and other products such as biodiesel. The first of this two-volume collections reviews advances in understanding of soybean physiology and genetics as well as breeding and more efficient methods of cultivation.

Instant Insights: Agroforestry practices

This book provides a detailed overview of the implementation of agroforestry practices to improve the sustainability of agriculture.

Instant Insights: Feather-pecking in poultry

This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on feather-pecking in poultry.

Advances in improving the safety and quality of eggs

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on key aspects of safety, quality and sustainability in poultry layer production, including recent advances on how to optimise egg quality and safety to better meet the needs and expectations of consumers.

Instant Insights: Improving the sustainability of dairy production

This book provides a detailed overview of recent research that considers how modern dairy production can be optimised to reduce its environmental impact and contribute to achieving a more sustainable agriculture.

Improving rumen function

Part 1 summarises advances in analysing the rumen microbiome. Part 2 reviews recent research on different types of rumen microbiota. Part 3 discusses the way the rumen processes nutrients whilst Part 4 explores nutritional strategies to optimise rumen function.

Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 1

Volume 1 looks at key research trends in ensuring safe beef production, both on the farm and during slaughter. These include current research on pathogens in beef, risk assessment and detection as well as food safety management.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2

Volume 2 in this sequence summarises key research on the wide range of uses of sorghum as food, animal feed and for biofuel. It also assesses the challenges of growing sorghum in different parts of the world and how these are being addressed.

Instant Insights: Sustainable tropical forest management

This book offers a unique insight into the recent research completed on achieving sustainable management of tropical forests. Chapters review the factors which determine tropical forests, the process of forest landscape restoration, as well as the interactions between forest ecosystems and the cl...

Precision agriculture for sustainability: Second edition

This new edition provides a comprehensive revision of a standard reference on the key components of precision agriculture (PA), from information gathering to delivery systems, as well the wide range of PA applications.

Advances in temperate agroforestry

This collection reviews key recent advances in temperate agroforestry. The book considers the role of temperate agroforestry in promoting biodiversity and key ecosystem services such as soil carbon sequestration, as well as recent developments in different types of silvopastoral and silvoarable s...

Developing drought-resistant cereals

This collection explores the challenge of achieving improved drought tolerance in key cereal crops such as wheat and barley and reviews key research and strategies which address how to overcome this challenge in order to mitigate the effects of climate change on cereal production.

Instant Insights: Sustainable forest management

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on sustainable forest management.

Instant Insights: Nutritional and health benefits of beverage crops

This collection provides a considered exploration of the nutritional and health benefits of key beverage crops, focussing primarily on tea and coffee. Chapters explore their potential in preventing the onset of chronic diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, as well as the analytical techniques av...

Instant Insights: Lameness in dairy cattle

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on lameness in dairy cattle.

Preventing food losses and waste to achieve food security and sustainability

Around one third of all food production is lost or wasted. This book provides a comprehensive review of the causes and prevention of food losses and waste at key steps in the supply chain, for different commodities and across particular regions.

Instant Insights: Restoring degraded forests

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on restoring degraded forests.

Instant Insights: Metabolic disorders in dairy cattle

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on metabolic disorders in dairy cattle.

Genome editing for precision crop breeding

Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in gene editing techniques such as insertion-based genome edits, base editing, guide RNAs and CRISPR/Cas off targeting. Part 2 surveys applications of gene editing in key cereal and vegetable crops.

Global tea science

Tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. Tea cultivation faces a range of challenges in improving yields. The various parts of the book review ways of addressing these challenges, from breeding and cultivation to plant protection and improving sustainability.

Instant Insights: Improving crop nutrient use efficiency

This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on improving crop nutrient use efficiency.

Instant Insights: Nutritional benefits of milk

This collection highlights the important contribution of milk and other dairy products to the diets of millions around the world. Chapters discuss key nutritional properties of milk, including lactose, caseins and glycoproteins and the ways in which consumption supports human health and growth.

Instant Insights: Integrated pest management in cereal cultivation

This collection reviews the adoption of integrated pest management programmes across cereal cultivation, with chapters dedicated to rice, wheat and sorghum. Chapters consider the key biological, cultural and chemical methods of control, as well as breeding crops for resistance to insect pests.

Instant Insights: Pesticide residues in agriculture

This collection features three peer-reviewed literature reviews on pesticide residues in agriculture.

Instant Insights: Advances in detecting and forecasting crop pests and diseases

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in crop pest monitoring and forecasting models. Chapters address emerging technologies in the area, as well as some of the issues and challenges that can arise as a result of implementing particular models.

Achieving sustainable cultivation of tree nuts

This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing key issues facing the cultivation of tree nuts. Part 1 discusses the health benefits of tree nuts. Part 2 addresses safety issues. The remaining parts assess advances in breeding, cultivation and the management of pests and diseases.

Instant Insights: Economics of agriculture

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economics of key elements of agriculture, including irrigation, agricultural robotics and integrated weed management.

Advances in sustainable dairy cattle nutrition

This collection reviews the wealth of research on recent advances in improving dairy cattle nutrition to balance the needs of animals with minimising the environmental impact of both livestock feed and dairy production.

Instant Insights: African swine fever

This collection synthesises and reviews the research on key aspects of understanding, tracking and preventing African swine fever. Chapters consider the causes and epidemiology of the disease, identification and surveillance, as well as recent research efforts on developing a vaccine.

Instant Insights: Good agricultural practices

This book provides a detailed overview of the development and deployment of good agricultural practices (GAPs) across the agricultural sector and their role in contributing to a sustainable, safe and secure agri-food supply chain.

Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture

Crop modelling has huge potential to improve decision making in farming. This collection reviews advances in next-generation models focused on user needs at the whole farm system and landscape scale.

Cyborg Mind

Journalism and the Metaverse

Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transfor...

Piezoelectric Electromechanical Transducers for Underwater Sound, Part I

A comprehensive yet practical treatment of piezoelectric transducers for underwater sound.

The Techno-Apparatus of Bodily Production

Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)...

The Manhattan Project

Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results—the bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"—were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.A vast state wi...