This chapter focuses on the crop protection and pest management of cotton crops in Southern Africa (Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Angola). It discusses how new technology will bring major changes in how cotton is grown in the future.

This chapter focuses on the crop protection and pest management of cotton crops growing in Australia. It demonstrates how crucial crop protection is in achieving high yield of high quality cotton. It also shows how new technology will bring major changes in how cotton is grown in the future.

Providing a cross-disciplinary approach to tourism behaviour, this fully updated edition responds to new emerging themes such as the digital revolution, social media, and tourist risk resulting from political instability and other uncertainty. The book has 14 chapters and covers: frameworks, models ...

This book chapter discuss various world views, i.e. worldviews and science, worldviews and natural landscapes, nature embodiment stage (enchanted cosmos: valuing birth, death, reciprocity), Nature-culture duality stage (power over nature, including other humans), mechanical universe stage (resource ...

This chapter reflects on the principles of smart tourism development, charts its conceptual and practical evolution and discusses its role in future tourism development around the globe. Specifically, it argues for a shift away from using smart tourism to advance a purely technological agenda and...

A diverse set of small RNAs is involved in the regulation of genome organization and gene expression in plants. These regulatory sRNAs play a central role for RNA in evolution and ontogeny in complex organisms, including forest tree species, providers of indispensable ecosystem services. RNA...

This chapter describes the available technology for improving poultry welfare, including monitoring and sensing technologies, robots and non-sensing technologies. The importance of ease of use and data security issues are also discussed. Technology will facilitate the monitoring and management of...

This chapter describes the application of technology in pig farming, including understand how computer systems learn, the different types of sensors to monitor health and behaviour, the basic operation of precision livestock farming (PLF) and future possibilities. Precision livestock farming (PLF)...

In considering the role of controversial technologies in food security, this chapter looks at the faces of social controversy, the need to sort out agreement from disagreement, and what can be done in policymaking.

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans are a group of aromatic hydrocarbons, emitted mostly from anthropogenic sources, that have negative effects on human health. Chlorine and carbon compounds, in combination with temperature and combustion processes, are the main...