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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter luetchford”
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  • Fair Trade and a Global Commodity

    Coffee in Costa Rica

    by Peter Luetchford ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Fair trade is widely regarded as a universal good. This fascinating anthropological study takes a closer look at a coffee-growing community and cooperatives in Costa Rica - and subjects the fair trade movement to critical scrutiny.As with conventional coffee, Western demand for organic fair trade produce is largely met by more affluent individuals with larger landholdings. As a result, it is ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Food for Change

    The Politics and Values of Social Movements

    by Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat.Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced.Jeff ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price

    Ethnographies of Market Exchange

    Edited by Peter Luetchford, Giovanni Orlando ...
    Series Book 39 - Research in Economic Anthropology
    Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the politics and ethics of pricing everything through the market dominates public life. At the same time, we know that dilemmas about how to value fairly, but also efficiently, goods and services have been with us for more than two thousand years, since the ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

    by Cristóbal Kay ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, internal colonialism, marginality and dependency. Exploring all four in detail, and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Food Confidential

    The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm—and What to Do About It

    by Nicole Faires ...
    When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America’s small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she found disturbed her. Mismanaged small farms; clueless urbanites setting up shop to get back to the land”; a mindless devotion to organic farming; and, ultimately, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Encounters with the Archdruid

    Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies

    by John McPhee ...
    The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society organizations around the world is under pressure. This book examines the pressures experienced by NGOs in four partial democracies: Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia and the Philippines. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • All the Dirt

    Reflections on Organic Farming

    by Rachel Fisher, Heather Stretch, Robin Tunnicliffe ...
    New farmers, experienced growers, budding environmentalists, and fans of natural, organic produce alike are sure to love All the Dirt. Filled with beautiful photographs and covering a wide variety of topics, from agrofuels and food sovereignty to practical tips about specific tools, All the Dirt is the must-read how-to book about small-scale organic farming. But beyond the practical applications, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

    Valuation, Distribution, Governance

    by Dirk Jacob Wolfson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author shows how sustainable development may be organized, valued and distributed by introducing situational contracting as an interactive and contextual mode of governance. Situational contracting provides a road map for where we want to go, serving the prevailing ideology in implementing the trade between efficiency and fairness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Growing Pains

    Environmental Management in Developing Countries

    Edited by Walter Wehrmeyer, Yacob Mulugetta ...
    Environmental management is a global phenomenon, embracing all businesses in all countries, whether or not there already exists an organised response to managing environmental impacts.Today, there are gross inequalities between the world's richest and poorest nations in terms of income distribution, consumption patterns, access to resources and environmental impact. Yet both the developed north ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2009

    Whose Crisis? Clarifying Donor's Priorities

    by DARA (Development Assistance Research Associates) ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Over 350 million people are affected each year by disaster and conflict. The international community is often unable to respond effectively to these crises. This report provides an independent examination of donor performance with the aim of improving the effectiveness of aid, and promoting greater accountability of donors. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD