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  • 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

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  • Development Cooperation

    Challenges of the New Aid Architecture

    by S. Klingebiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries in their processes of development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Edited by Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The WTO and Food Security

    Implications for Developing Countries

    by Sachin Kumar Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of people ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Emerging Economies

    Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation

    Edited by Parthasarathi Shome, Pooja Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Changing Contours of Indian Agriculture

    Investment, Income and Non-farm Employment

    Edited by Amaresh Dubey, Seema Bathla ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents an extensive study on India’s agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes. It offers appropriate financial, institutional, and policy frameworks that can help to sustain agricultural growth and augment farmers’ incomes across geographical locations. Further, it addresses agricultural growth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Land Use Competition

    Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives

    Edited by Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller, Tobias Krueger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition.Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa

    Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement

    by Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo ...
    Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement evaluates traditional cultivation practices used by smallholder farmers, providing a synthesis of the latest information on increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations. The book catalogs smallholder cultivation practices and recommends innovative strategies for improving ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • A Sustainable Livelihood Approach to Poverty Reduction

    An Empirical Analysis of Mizoram, the Eastern Extension of the Himalaya

    by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati, Lalrinpuia Vangchhia ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach. Such an approach to poverty reduction is inevitable, particularly, in areas where livelihoods depend largely on biomass-based agriculture and livestock production. Mizoram possesses abundant natural ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edited by Melinda Smale, Marc Cohen ...
    Series series Development in Practice Books
    This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Eurasian Wheat Belt and Food Security

    Global and Regional Aspects

    Edited by Sergio Gomez y Paloma, Sébastien Mary, Stephen Langrell, Pavel Ciaian ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the wheat production developments in the Eurasian region and assesses the potential contribution of the region to domestic and international food security. In particular, the book covers policy and institutional developments of the agricultural sector in Eurasia with a special focus on the horizontal issues relevant to the current and future potential ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Food Safety, Market Organization, Trade and Development

    Edited by Abdelhakim Hammoudi, Cristina Grazia, Yves Surry, Jean-Baptiste Traversac ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade. Focusing on food safety regulation at an international level and private food safety standards, the authors use contemporary methodologies to analyze supply chain structures and organization as well as food-chain actors’ strategies. They also evaluate the effects of these on both consumer ... Read more

    $89.09 USD