The New Peasantries

Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showe... Lees meer

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural ... Lees meer

Consumers, Meat and Animal Products

Terence J Centner

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety of... Lees meer

Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective. Agricultural commercialization, involving no... Lees meer

Fighting for Farming Justice

Terri R Jett

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department... Lees meer

Food Security Policy, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps re... Lees meer

The Agricultural Dilemma

Glenn Davis Stone

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not ... Lees meer

Cities and Agriculture

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for... Lees meer

Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of liveliho... Lees meer

The Green Revolution

Patrick Kilby

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly refer... Lees meer

Food Policy in the United Kingdom

Martin Caraher, Sinéad Furey, Rebecca Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues. ... Lees meer

Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power

James F Hancock

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "best" through their agronomic prod... Lees meer

The New Peasantries

Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showe... Lees meer

Climate Neutral and Resilient Farming Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further provides innovative and practical solutions fo... Lees meer

Food Policy in the United States

Parke Wilde

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.S. food policy. The update accounts for experience with ... Lees meer

Food Policy in the United States

Parke Wilde

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This new edition offers a timely update to a leading introductory text on food policy in the United States, including policy changes in the 2014 Farm ... Lees meer

Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

Raquel (University of Dundee, UK) Ajates Gonzalez

• Hardcover | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Focusing on Europe, this book provides a study of farmers' cooperatives from a social rather than economic perspective. Lees meer

Governing Sustainable Seafood

Simon Bush, Peter Oosterveer

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as wel... Lees meer

The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

Michael Carolan

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture , students are provided with a substantially revised and updated introductory text to ... Lees meer

Farming with the Environment

Chris Stoate

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book examines, discusses and shares over 30 years' worth of research from the Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm in the UK which... Lees meer

Sustainable Food Systems

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm.... Lees meer

Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

Raquel Ajates Gonzalez

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to ar... Lees meer

Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to ge... Lees meer

Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany

Hendrik Wolter

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustai... Lees meer