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  • Food Policy for Developing Countries

    The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems

    by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II ...
    Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • One Billion Hungry

    Can We Feed the World?

    by Gordon Conway ...
    Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    by Jennifer Clapp ...
    Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Flour Peddler

    A Global Journey into Local Food from Canada to South Sudan

    by Chris Hergesheimer, Josh Hergesheimer ...
    In 2008, a small-scale flour miller from British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast created a handmade bike mill to attract a dedicated farmers’ market following. Chris Hergesheimer wanted to challenge the belief that there is only one way—the big way—to grow, process and market grain and flour. For Chris and his family, it wasn’t about profit, but connecting a community to its food producers for better ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Duck Season

    Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony, France's Last Best Place

    by David McAninch ...
    A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gascony-a deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourism-meeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life.Though hed been a card-carrying Francophile all of his life, David McAninch knew little about Gascony, an ancient region in Southwest France mostly overlooked by Americans. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Confronting the Blue Revolution

    Industrial Aquaculture and Sustainability in the Global South

    by Saidul Islam ...
    Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privileged consumers in the global North, it has come at a high price for the South: ecological devastation, displacement of rural subsistence farmers, and labour exploitation. The uncomfortable truth is that food security for affluent consumers depends on a ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Global Hunger Crisis

    Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

    by Majda Bne Saad ...
    For billions across the world, the daily challenge is to find enough to eat to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity and poverty and rising food prices increasingly jeopardising access to food. But what are the causes for global hunger? And as the global population soars, what are the key food challenges?In this deeply informative ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communication for Another Development

    Listening before Telling

    by Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez ...
    This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any development initiative. They illustrate their argument with vivid case studies and tools for the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Food Policy

    Human Dimensions of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America

    by Jeanne Harlow, Jeanne Harlow, Roberta D. Baer, David Barkin, Billie R. DeWalt, Kathleen M. DeWalt, Paul L. Doughty, Art Hansen, J. Terrance McCabe, Edward B. Reeves ...
    Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork—especially at the individual, family, and community levels—can help professionals plan and assess policies. ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Africa's Return Migrants

    The New Developers?

    Edited by Lisa Åkesson, Maria Eriksson Baaz ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to 'return' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Global Management, Local Resistances

    Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies

    Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on global management and local resistances in all major world regions during the last years. It seeks to assess the overall management situation in the world, looking at the world as a social system ... Read more

    $47.99 USD