Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “derek byerlee”
Skip side bar filters

  • Rising Global Interest in Farmland

    Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

    by Klaus Deininger, Derek Byerlee, Jonathan Lindsay, Andrew Norton, Harris Selod, Mercedes Stickler ...
    Series series Agriculture and Rural Development Series, World Bank Training Series
    This book not only highlights the risks associated with large-scale investment, but also advises on how governments can create an environment to attract investment that contributes to broad-based growth and poverty reduction in cases where land acquisition by large investors makes sense from a social, economic, and environmental perspective. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution

    Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests

    by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor ...
    Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades. The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers in their production; their economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. The planting of these crops is controversial because they are often sown on formerly ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?

    by Deininger Klaus; Byerlee Derek ...
    This book aims to provide key pieces of information needed for informed debate about large-scale land acquisition by drawing on the experience from past land expansions discussing predictions for potential future demand and providing empirical evidence of what is happening on the ground in the countries most affected by the recent increase in demand for land. It complements demand side ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

    Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Simane Belay, Jokasha Kalangu, Wuta Menas, Pantaleo Munishi, Kumbirai Musiyiwa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent. It includes a set of papers presented at a symposium held in Addis Abeba in February 2016, which brought together international experts to discuss “fostering African resilience and capacity to adapt.” The papers introduce a wide range of methodological approaches and ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Social Capital and Local Development

    From Theory to Empirics

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, Elena Pisani, Laura Secco, Giorgio Franceschetti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Union (EU) to an increased risk of social exclusion and poverty, which are now at the heart of its economic, employment and social agenda with explicit reference to rural and marginal areas (Europe 2020). The authors' work from the notion that ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Payment for Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes

    Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

    Edited by Leslie Lipper, Takumi Sakuyama, Randy Stringer, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both environmental and poverty alleviation objectives. However, their optimal design, implications for the rural poor, ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition

    Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds

    by Glenn Drowns ...
    Series series Storey’s Guide to Raising
    Whether you’re running a farm or interested in keeping a few backyard birds, Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry covers everything you need to know to successfully raise your own chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and more. Stressing humane practices throughout, Glenn Drowns provides expert advice on breed selection, housing, feeding, behavior, breeding, health care, and processing your own meat and eggs ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Peasants in Power

    The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda

    by Philip Verwimp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book shows how Rwanda’s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential clan chose a development model that would not change the political status quo. When the latter ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Grocery

    The Buying and Selling of Food in America

    by Michael Ruhlman ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author "digs deep into the world of how we shop and how we eat. It's a marvelous, smart, revealing work" (Susan Orlean, #1 bestselling author).In a culture obsessed with food—how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from, what is good for us—there are often more questions than answers. Ruhlman proposes that the best practices for consuming wisely could be ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Food Insecurity

    Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

    by Maria Sassi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies. The aim is to equip readers with a sound understanding of the subject that will assist in the recognition of food insecurity and the design of suitable responses. The early chapters discuss the evolution and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Family Farming and the Worlds to Come

    Edited by Jean-Michel Sourisseau ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    What is family farming? How can it help meet the challenges confronting the world? How can it contribute to a sustainable and more equitable development? Not only is family farming the predominant form of agriculture around the world, especially so in developing countries, it is also the agriculture of the future. By declaring 2014 the “International Year of Family Farming,” the United Nations has ... Read more

    $98.09 USD