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The book titled "Sustainable Agriculture Challenges: Navigating the Path to a Resilient Food System" is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted issues and hurdles facing the global transition to sustainable agriculture. Authored by leading experts in the field, this seminal work delves into the intricate web of challenges that must be addressed to create a resilient and environmentally responsible food system. The book begins by highlighting the urgency of the sustainability imperative, emphasizing the critical role agriculture plays in addressing pressing global challenges such as climate change, food security, and biodiversity loss. It underscores the need for transformative changes in farming practices and policies to ensure long-term agricultural viability. One of the key strengths of this book is its in-depth examination of the challenges encountered on the path to sustainable agriculture. It dissects issues such as soil degradation, water scarcity, and the excessive use of synthetic chemicals, offering insightful analyses and evidence-based solutions. Additionally, the book explores the complexities of transitioning from conventional to sustainable farming iv practices, acknowledging the economic and technological challenges that farmers face. Furthermore, the book delves into the social dimensions of sustainability in agriculture, shedding light on issues related to equitable access to resources, fair labor practices, and the empowerment of farming communities. It addresses the need for policy reforms and international cooperation to promote sustainable agricultural practices on a global scale. The book also underscores the importance of innovation and research in overcoming sustainability challenges. It showcases successful case studies and best practices from diverse agricultural systems worldwide, offering readers practical insights into the implementation of sustainable farming techniques.

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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: A, Jawaharlal Nehru University , language: English, abstract: The aim of this research is to get a complete picture of the sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of Punjabi Indian migrants settled in Germany. Migration brings with it an increased cultural diversity. The question for this thesis is how Punjabi identity is shaped and maintained in Diaspora, what mechanisms allow the Punjabi-speaking migrants to live and work within the new cultural milieu of Germany. The objective is to see, what happens to individuals, who are born and brought up in one cultural context, when they live in a new cultural context. To what extent are cultural identity and characteristics important for the migrants, and what is being done for language and culture maintenance? The basis for this research is intercultural communication and intercultural understanding between the Indians and the Germans. Primary source research for the thesis consisted of surveys and interviews with 240 Punjabi-speaking migrants, mostly Sikhs, of different age, social class and occupation living primarily in 7 different cities of Germany namely Wuppertal, Essen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.

No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi. This book examines Delhi in the politically and culturally dynamic nineteenth century which was marked midway by the 1857 uprising against British colonial rule as a watershed event. Following British occupation, Delhi became a receptacle for encounters between the centuries-old Mughal traditions and the incoming colonial ideal, producing a traditionalism-modernity binary. Employing the built environment lens, the book traces the architectural trajectory of Delhi as it transitioned from the seventeenth-century Mughal Badshahi Shahar (imperial city) first into a culturally hybrid Dilli-Delhi combine of the pre-uprising era and thereafter into a modern British city following the uprising. This transition is presented via four constructs that draw on the traditionalism-modernity binary of Mughal and British Delhi and include Marhoom Dilli (Dead Delhi); Picturesque Delhi; Baaghi Dilli (Insurgent Delhi) and Tamed Delhi. The book goes beyond the nineteenth century to examine the vestiges of Delhi’s four nineteenth-century lives in the present while making a case for their acknowledgement as a cultural asset that can propel the city’s urban development agenda. By bringing together the city’s past and its present as well as addressing its future, the book can count among its readers not just scholars but also those interested in cities and their evolving landscapes.

Bringing together the latest research and understanding on selective mutism, this edited book gives essential information on the various treatment and therapy options. Experts in the fields of speech and language therapy, psychology, music therapy education and communication offer a wide range of professional perspectives on the condition, while case studies from people with selective mutism, past sufferers and parents reveal the personal impact. The book also clarifies what support a person with selective mutism is likely to need at home, school and in social situations. This definitive volume on selective mutism will be key reading for professionals such as speech and language therapists, educational psychologists, child psychiatrists, child and adolescent mental health workers and anyone working with selective mutism in therapeutic and educational settings, as well as family members wanting a closer understanding of what selective mutism is and how they can help.

Shades of Love, is a daring and intimate exploration of the different colours of love. Each piece of work allows readers to muse about their own experiences of love, whether it be self, familial, platonic or romantic.

Entrepreneurial finance is a relatively new subfield of finance that combines elements of both traditional finance and business. Entrepreneurship is the discovery for, assessment of, and pursuit of chances to create and commercialise novel products, services, organisational structures, market niches, manufacturing techniques, or supplies via the use of initiative and resourcefulness. Opportunities may come from a variety of places, and studying where they come from, what shape they take, how they are discovered and evaluated, how resources are gathered and used to capitalise on them, and the people who do these things are all part of the study of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs require access to funding to launch a new venture. In reality, studies on how to get resources are among the most studied topics in the field of entrepreneurship. Moreover, financial support is a crucial asset for every entrepreneur to have at their disposal. Financial matters include the acquisition, investment, and management of capital, as well as their respective costs and benefits. It is discussed in the context of states and nations, markets and businesses, and individuals themselves, as in the term ‘personal finance’. The focus of this book is ‘corporate finance’, a subfield of finance vi devoted to business concerns. Coverage in this book ranges from an overview of the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial spectrum to specifics on creating a business plan, analysing financial accounts, management of cash flow, valuing a company, and securing venture capital and debt financing.

The specialty crop sector has experienced consistent growth both domestically and internationally over the past decade. Nevertheless, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unique obstacles to the industry, which could potentially hinder its continued expansion, while simultaneously promoting a favorable trend in consumer preferences for purchasing specialty crops directly from farms. To capture a larger share of the economic value derived from their crops, farmers could consider performing certain processing functions on-site prior to selling their products, developing higher-value specialty crops, establishing direct marketing channels that bypass intermediaries, and identifying niche markets. These additional benefits would stimulate economic activity and foster entrepreneurship development. Consequently, the publication titled Entrepreneurship Development in Specialty Agriculture aims to explore the role of specialty agriculture in the formation and growth of enterprises.

Aquatic ecosystems provide far diverse habitat and the inhabiting biota but our interest in them is too recent and hence knowledge about them is extremely small. The aquatic systems harbour organisms varying from small microbes to largest mammals on globe, the blue whale. With this kind of biodiversity living in aquatics, very little attention was paid till recently when man realized that land is becoming a linking factor and produce from agriculture may not suffice to meet the needs of society. The so made realization gave birth to aquaculture, the culture of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions . Hence fish (fin fish) along with some other organisms (animal and plant) were selected as good candidates for capture as well as culture to serve as food. Fish with exceptionally wide diversity comprises of more than 20,000 living species need to be understood and finding the lead this introductory book whose contents provide material to acquaint the reader with capturing (methods evolved over the period), preserving (for studies and eating) and knowing (identifying) fish is being placed for reader. The contents are projected in a very simple language, scientific terms explained and discussed for their use in day-to-day life, made to assess the freshness/quality of fish available in market and stage developing larvae after hatching to be selected for introduction in the ponds for culturing are the issues that have been dealt in this book for readers who may happen to be the students of fishery science, casual readers or even house wives interesting in purchase and cooking of fish. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Diversity in Fishes; Chapter 3: Collection Methods; Chapter 4: Sorting, Preservation and Measurement; Chapter 5: Terminology Used in Fish Identification; Chapter 6: Measurements (Morphometric, Meristic and Biometric) and Counts; Chapter 7: Morphological Variations; Chapter 8: Fins and their Modifications; Chapter 9: Collection and Identification of Egg, Larvae and Juveniles of Some Common Fishes of India; Chapter 10: Freshwater Food Fishes of India and Determination of their Freshness.