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, specifically in in two countries, Cambodia a... Lees meer

Organic Food and Farming in China

Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities. ... Lees meer

The New Peasantries

Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This new edition is thoroughly revised, with several new chapters and case studies added. It has been re-structured more as a textbook for students of... 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

Consumers, Meat and Animal Products

Terence J Centner

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

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

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

Cities and Agriculture

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This volume presents experience and evidence based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges of urban food systems and types of... 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

Agricultural Land Use

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land-use, drawing on an array of global case studies. This book will be of great... 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

Pathways to African Food Security

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book examines Africa's current food system and future challenges for food security over the next twenty-five years.This book is essential reading... 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 to provide innovative and practical solutions ... 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

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

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 shown fundamental to food and nutrition security ... 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

Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its ... Lees meer

Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Through a set of thematic and case study chapters, this volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the co... Lees meer

Farming with the Environment

Chris Stoate

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

Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

Raquel Ajates Gonzalez

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

Forgotten Agricultural Heritage

Parviz Koohafkan, Miguel A Altieri

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Contemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its dis... Lees meer

Agricultural Markets Instability

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professi... Lees meer