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The International Banana Trade
ISBN: 9781855734050 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unique characteristic of the international banana trade is distinguished from other commodity trades by the intensity of its politics and the importance of a small number of companies which have dominated the trade for over
a hundred years. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the trade in the world's most popular fruit. Covering all aspects of the trade from patterns of production and consumption to pricing trends, from details of the companies involved to consideration of international political constraints. Analysts and policy makers within the trade or governmental... The unique characteristic of the international banana trade is distinguished from other commodity trades by the intensity of its politics and the impo...
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783,64 |
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Automatic Milking: For a Better Understanding
ISBN: 9789076998381 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects the knowledge on automatic milking generated all over the world since the year 2000. Its is a compendium of the present state of knowledge in the field of automatic milking.
This book reflects the knowledge on automatic milking generated all over the world since the year 2000. Its is a compendium of the present state of kn...
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cena:
592,79 |
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Safety Assurance During Food Processing
ISBN: 9789076998060 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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586,41 |
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Risk Management Strategies: v. 3: Monitoring and Surveillance
ISBN: 9789076998077 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the veterinarian, "Monitoring and Surveillance" represent the best means of ensuring sustainable animal production at a time when consumer demands reflect awareness that many of the hazards associated with food animal production can be minimised or avoided through proper management at the primary production level. Preventive medicine and quality and safety assurance programmes are primarily based on knowledge of the existing strengths and weaknesses of the clients' enterprise and their ability to enact effective intervention measures. Accordingly, the food animal veterinarian relies upon...
For the veterinarian, "Monitoring and Surveillance" represent the best means of ensuring sustainable animal production at a time when consumer demands...
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586,41 |
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Field to Fabric: The Story of American Cotton Growers
ISBN: 9780896722385 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its beginnings, American Cotton Growers strove toward ever more effective processing and marketing of the cotton grown on the High Plains. The men who were the driving force behind ACG realized what enormous benefits were possible if the cotton that was grown here and ginned here could also be processed, spun, and woven into fabric before it was shipped elsewhere. Transforming their vision into the construction and successful operation of a denim mill was an enormous gamble. Only with the mutual support, respect, and sheer stick-to-itiveness of ACG members, bankers, and Levi Strauss &...
From its beginnings, American Cotton Growers strove toward ever more effective processing and marketing of the cotton grown on the High Plains. The me...
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102,81 |
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Economic Modeling of Water: The Australian Cge Experience
ISBN: 9789400728752 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book details the innovative TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) approach to regional and national economic modeling, and explains the conversion from a comparative-static to a dynamic model. It moves on to an adaptation of TERM to water policy, including the additional theoretical and database requirements of the dynamic TERM-H2O model. In particular, it examines the contrasting economic impacts of water buyback policy and recurring droughts in the Murray-Darling Basin. South-east Queensland, where climate uncertainty has been borne out by record-breaking drought and the worst floods in...
The book details the innovative TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) approach to regional and national economic modeling, and explains the conversion fr...
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402,53 |
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Us Programs Affecting Food and Agricultural Marketing
ISBN: 9781461449294 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the increased scope, complexity and globalization of markets, the changes in technology behind this, and the need for policy and program adjustments. Also discusses the development of supply chains both domestically and globally.
This book discusses the increased scope, complexity and globalization of markets, the changes in technology behind this, and the need for policy and p...
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603,81 |
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Value Chain Analysis
ISBN: 9783659174964 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite fast growth in poultry business, farmers from developing countries suffer several problems: the major one being minimum share of profit. Lack of knowledge of the value chain is one of the major contributing factors. A study was conducted to find out the appropriate way out to enhance the share of poultry growers in the profit. Results showed unorganized marketing system and high/rapid fluctuation in price to be detrimental to producers. Credit was also found to be a constraining factor making the bargaining power weak on part of poultry producers. It is recommended that minimum market...
Despite fast growth in poultry business, farmers from developing countries suffer several problems: the major one being minimum share of profit. Lack ...
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263,91 |
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Production Economics: The Basic Theory of Production Optimisation
ISBN: 9783642301995 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers the basic theory of how, what and when firms should produce to maximize profits. It shows how to build and apply linear programming for production planning and features numerous illustrative examples.
This book covers the basic theory of how, what and when firms should produce to maximize profits. It shows how to build and apply linear programming f...
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cena:
362,27 |
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Local Food Systems: Markets, Trends & Federal Programs
ISBN: 9781620812488 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sales of locally produced foods comprise a small, but growing, part of U.S. agricultural sales. The U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) estimates that farm-level value of local food sales totalled about $4.8 million in 2008, about 1.6% of the U.S. market for agricultural products. An estimated total of 107,000 farms were engaged in local food systems, about 5% of all U.S. farms. This book provides background on local and regional food systems, focusing on available data on direct-to-consumer sales, farmers' markets, farm-to-school programs, community-supported agriculture, and community...
Sales of locally produced foods comprise a small, but growing, part of U.S. agricultural sales. The U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) estimates tha...
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cena:
386,87 |
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Children's Food: Marketing and Innovation
ISBN: 9781461284246 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to serve as essential reading for those innovating and marketing food products for children as well as those determined to better understand the children's marketplace in order to ensure that it is administered in a manner consistent with the long-term aspirations of society. The book begins by setting the scene and looking at the way children influence food choices within the family and the role advertising is thought to play in driving those choices. Professor Stratton of The Psychology Business (Department of Psychology, Leeds University) has world renowned...
The purpose of this book is to serve as essential reading for those innovating and marketing food products for children as well as those determined to...
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603,81 |
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Products and Process Innovation in the Food Industry
ISBN: 9781461284338 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation in new product development is a key factor in determining the success of a food company yet the area is fraught with risk, with failure rates in excess of 90% being common. Using a series of 12 European cases studies, this book examines the innovation process from agriculture through to retailer. Each example highlights a different aspect of innovation, and the lessons that can be learned from experience. It considers the important role that marketing as well as technical aspects play in the process.
Innovation in new product development is a key factor in determining the success of a food company yet the area is fraught with risk, with failure rat...
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603,81 |
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An African Green Revolution: Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms
ISBN: 9789400757592 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, half the population lived on less than on dollar a day, and a staggering one in three people and one third of all children were undernourished. Africa has abundant natural resources; agriculture provides most of its jobs, a third of national income and a larger portion of total export earnings. However the levels of land and labor productivity rank among the worst in the world. The book explains Africa s productivity gap and proposes ways to close... This volume explores the usefulness of the Asian model of agricultural development for Africa, where, even before the recent world food crisis, hal... |
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402,53 |
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Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
ISBN: 9780393349566 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems.Waste traces the problem around the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain. Stuart's journey takes him from the streets of New York to China, Pakistan and Japan and back to his home in England. Introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. The journey is a personal one, as...
But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems.Waste
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115,61 |
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Environment, Development, Agriculture : Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology
ISBN: 9780415599924 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes.
This title focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation ...
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225,25 |
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The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements
ISBN: 9786155225635 / Angielski / Twarda / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume offers a complex comparative overview of the collectivization process in Eastern Europe.
The volume offers a complex comparative overview of the collectivization process in Eastern Europe.
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847,31 |
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Privatization of Agriculture in New Market Economies: Lessons from Bulgaria
ISBN: 9789401046084 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about economic transformation in agriculture and the adjustments needed in public and private strategies to facilitate it. The book uses theory from the social and physical sciences and practical experience gained throughout the world to recommend strategies that are generally applicable to new market economies in transition. Bulgaria is used as a case example because it provides an empirical reference of interest because of its diversity, its massive restructuring, and its precollectivization history as an efficient sector. The book also provides a means for coordinating output...
This book is about economic transformation in agriculture and the adjustments needed in public and private strategies to facilitate it. The book uses ...
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805,10 |
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Economics of Climate Change in the Arab World: Case Studies from the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen
ISBN: 9780821398463 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and households in three of the MENA countries; Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. The major channels of impact for global climate change are through changing world food (and energy) prices, especially since all the countries under analysis are or have become net importers of oil and petroleum products and many food commodities in recent years. The impacts of local climate change decrease crop yields in the longer run and through them, productivity in the...
This book takes both a global as well as a local perspective in assessing the impacts of climate change on the economy, agricultural sector, and house...
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102,81 |
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A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
ISBN: 9781442221901 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine--the journey from vine to bottle--that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world: the host of insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, along with the feathered and furry critters, that lurk in vineyards. All are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Rather than responding with toxic chemicals, Kiger follows an organic approach to cultivation, explaining how natural and biological controls can...
A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine--the journey from vine to bottle--that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie ...
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205,71 |
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Allgemeine und spezielle Wirtschaftsgeographie
ISBN: 9783111305158 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
509,71 |