Books published by CABI Publishing

This book shows the progress of GM crop adoption across the Asia-Pacific region over the past decade, and provides important insights for countries in the process of adopting and regulating GM technologies.

Discusses the impact that anti-GM crop attitudes have on nutrition security in developing countries and updates scientists, regulatory authorities, decision makers and the interested public on the current status of GM crops in developed and developing countries, giving first-hand accounts from people involved in growing, promoting and regulating GM crops.

Pomegranate cultivation is increasing considerably worldwide for fresh consumption, juice production and medicinal purposes. This is the first comprehensive book by an international team of experts at the forefront of research and provides insights and experiences covering botany, production, processing, health and industrial uses of the fruit.

Tourism in European Microstates and Dependencies carefully examines the nuances and realities associated with tourism, social and economic development, geography, and geopolitics of Europe's microstates and dependencies.

This second edition of the highly successful book, first published in 1991, contains thoroughly updated and revised material on the theory and practice of nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems.

Cassava is a major tropical tuber crop found throughout the tropics (India, Oceania, Africa and Latin America). Hitherto, there has been no single text covering all aspects of cassava biology, production and utilization. This book fills that gap, representing the first comprehensive research level overview of this main staple crop.

This book is a collection of state-of-the-art reviews on the global problems of diffuse water pollution from agriculture, which affects the water quality of rivers, lakes, reservoirs and the oceans. It includes chapters on eutrophication, phosphorus, nitrogen, manure, heavy metals, carbon/persistent organic pollutants and soil/siltation problems.

This book is the first comprehensive, scientific volume to be published in English on this "king of tropical fruit". It provides information on the biology, propagation and use of the fruit, and descriptions of the scientific basis of production practices and orchard management, as well as post-harvest processing.

As an indispensable guide the 'Keys' shall continue to be an essential resource to those working within medical, veterinary and biological departments worldwide for many more years to come.

Providing a comprehensive overview for small animal veterinarians with poultry clients, this book covers the poultry industry, avian biology, diseases and their agents, infection control, and disease investigation and legislation. Written by international experts, it includes full colour images to aid identification and diagnosis.

Presents key issues of tourism planning and development in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Afghanistan, and Bhutan. Demonstrates experiences, challenges, successful and unsuccessful stories and specific cases of countries within South Asia. Written by scholars with extensive research experience on tourism in these countries.

This book provides the first review devoted to parasites of domestic cattle and sheep. It considers the impact of parasites, both as individual species and as co-infections, as well as epidemiological information, monitoring, diagnostic procedures, and implementing control measures such as the responsible use of parasiticides.

This book introduces the basic aspects of animal nutrition, giving a practical overview of the principles which underpin the design and management of farm animal feeding systems. It covers digestive function, nutrients and feed intake, feed related disorders, grazing behaviour and management, climate change and the environment, and more.

This book deals exclusively with the equine endocrine problems that the clinician would see in practice. It is the perfect reference for the practitioner who must quickly diagnose and treat the presenting problems.

It is anticipated that the damage to crops and forests by insects will increase as a consequence of climate change. However, the evidence in support of this is sparse. This book sums up present knowledge regarding both agricultural and forest insect pests and climate change in order to identify future research directions.

Methods in microbial systematics have developed and changed significantly in the last 40 years. This book provides an overview of new methodologies and wider information sources to provide accurate identifications, in the context of current microbial systematic concepts.

Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook remains essential reading for students of ethology and animal science.

Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies, precision farming and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook by an internationally recognised expert is for students of ethology and animal science.

This book provides an in-depth examination of how and why tourists behave as they do, and how this is perceived by hosts and outside agencies, covering national characteristics of tourists from around the world, effects of everyday events and governmental and environmental factors, and tourists' consideration of sustainable principles.

This book is essential reading for all agronomy lecturers and students at universities and colleges. By bringing together recent research and practice it is also a valuable resource for researchers and advisors in this area, such as plant breeders, agronomists and pathologists.

The book gives the reader a bird's eye view of more than 350 of the best-known medicinal plants of the world and their uses, in a compact, colourful and scientifically accurate reference text.

This up-to-date, comprehensive book covers the practicalities of working with and studying soil and plant nematodes. Written by an international team of experts, it includes traditional and new methodologies, as well as sections on behavioural and physiological assays, and cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular biology techniques.