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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan lindsay”
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  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

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  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mercy For Animals

    One Man's Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals

    by Nathan Runkle, Gene Stone ...
    A compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy For Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation’s leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Big Handout

    How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills

    by Thomas M. Kostigen ...
    Just reading the word "subsidies" may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly, so we tune out. But it turns out that this complicated-sounding issue has an enormous impact on all of us. The Big Handout is about bad fiscal, environmental, agricultural, water, energy, health, and foreign policies. And it's a story about just one thing—subsidies.A subsidy is a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Economics of Beer

    Edited by Johan F.M. Swinnen ...
    Beer has been consumed across the globe for centuries and was the drink of choice in many ancient societies. Today it is the most important alcoholic drink worldwide, in terms of volume and value. The largest brewing companies have developed into global multinationals, and the beer market has enjoyed strong growth in emerging economies, but there has been a substantial decline of beer consumption ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Agricultural and Food Controversies

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by F. Bailey Norwood, Pascal A. Oltenacu, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo, Sarah Lancaster ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The world is more interested in issues surrounding agricultural and food issues than ever before. Are pesticides safe? Should we choose locally grown food? Why do some people embrace new agricultural technologies while others steadfastly defend traditional farming methods? In the debates about organic food, genetically modified organisms, and farm animal welfare, it's not always clear what the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Creating Wine

    The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914

    by James Simpson ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound. In New World regions like the United States and Australia, the industry is dominated by a handful ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Globalisation and Agricultural Landscapes

    Change Patterns and Policy trends in Developed Countries

    Edited by Jørgen Primdahl, Simon Swaffield ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
    Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging under the dynamics of globalisation. Combining landscape ecological research and an examination of relevant public policy, this book investigates the dynamic relationship between agricultural landscapes ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    by Timothy P. Bowman, Kristin Hoganson, Laura Hooton, Josh MacFadyen, Todd Meyers, Peter S Morris, Andrew Dunlop, Alicia Marion Dewey, John Weber, Sonia Hernández, Rosa E Cobos, Matt Caire-Pérez, Paige Raibmon, Jason McCollom, Thomas D Isern, Suzzanne Kelley, Anthony Carlson, Stephen Mumme, Tisa Anders ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • 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