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  • Animal Nutrition with Transgenic Plants

    by Marc De Loose, Yi Liu, Thomas Frenzel, Agnes Ricroch, Ralf Einspanier, Atte von Wright, Emilio Rodriguez-Cerezo, Jie Wen, Matin Qaim, Joachim Scholderer, TJ Higgins, Klaus Ammann ...
    Series series CABI Biotechnology Series
    * Gathers together more than 150 feeding studies with food-producing animals and covers both first and second generation transgenic plants * The first central resource of this information for researchers, students and policy makers * Includes contributions from a wide range of specialists in the field ... Read more

    $156.09 USD

  • Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries

    Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor

    Edited by Matin Qaim, Anatole F. Krattiger, Joachim von Braun ...
    Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Yet there are economic and institutional constraints at national and international levels that inhibit the poor people's access to appropriate biotechnological innovations. Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Gender in Agriculture

    Closing the Knowledge Gap

    Edited by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Terri L. Raney, André Croppenstedt, Julia A. Behrman, Amber Peterman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution

    Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

    Edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices. ... Read more

    $49.49 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

    $152.09 USD

  • Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Edited by David Zilberman, Joachim Otte, David Roland-Holst, Dirk Pfeiffer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the state of animal agriculture and present methodologies and proposals to develop policies that result in sustainable and profitable animal production that will protect human and environmental health, enhance livelihood of smallholders and meet consumer needs. The book combines lessons of the past, factual foundation to understand the present, analytical tools to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Chile’s Salmon Industry

    Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods

    Edited by Akio Hosono, Michiko Iizuka, Jorge Katz ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first to analyze Chile’s salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods. The book highlights important aspects of learning and capacity development, environmental sustainability, institutions, and social welfare or inclusiveness.With aquaculture now providing almost half the global fish harvest, Chile’s salmon farming and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries

    Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection

    by Luis Tomás Montilla Fernández ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa’s least developed countries from a law and economics perspective. Focusing on the effects of foreign land investments on host countries’ local populations and the apparent failure of international law to create incentives to offset them, it also examines the legal and economic mechanisms to hold investors ... Read more

    $89.09 USD