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  • Radical Food Geographies

    Power, Knowledge and Resistance

    by M. Jahi Johnson-Chappell, Jessica L. Gilbert-Overland, Sanelisiwe Nyaba, Caroline Peters, Jane Battersby, Nicole Paganini, Joshua Sbicca, Alison Hope Alkon, Susanna Klassen, Francisco García González, Cristina Bonilla, Paula Novack, Fernando Toro, Erica Zurawski, Alanna K. Higgins, Lynn Huynh, Brittany D. Jones, Rosie Kerr, Larry Mcdermott, Jessica McLaughlin, Julie Price, Glenn Checkley, Alex Boulet, Erika Bockstael, Sarah Craig, Amanda Froese, Sudha Nagavarapu, Surbala Vaish, Om Prakash, Kamal Kishore, Richa Singh, Richa Kumar, Yafa El Masri, Christine Añonuev, Sarah de Leeuw, Katya Korol, Monika Krzywania, Danya Nadar, Jennifer Casolo ...
    Series series Food and Society: New Directions
    This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales. With case studies from around the globe, Radical Food Geographies explores interconnections between power structures and the social and ecological dynamics that bring food from the land and water to our plates. Through themes of scale, spatial imaginaries, and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • State of Rural and Agrarian India Report 2020

    Rethinking Productivity and Populism through Alternative Approaches

    by Richa Kumar, Nikhit Kumar Agrawal, P.S. Vijayshankar, A.R. Vasavi ...
    This book covers the sensitive real-life story of Gulzari and Parvati, their marriage in Lahore in 1942, the eruption of violence and carnage, their flight to New Delhi just a month before the partition and their aristocratic lifestyle that slowly crumbled (so did their love for each other).An interesting account of a man who struggles to keep up with his swanky lifestyle he once enjoyed as one of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Making Peace with the Earth

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earth Democracy

    Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international attention—genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization—uncovering ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Commons

    Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rural Economics and Development

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by Preet Pal Singh ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    Rural development is a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of the rural people. Rural development involves extending the benefits of development to the poorest among the population. The concept of rural development has now undergone a change and has become more comprehensive. This book covering all the topics of Rural Development as per UGC syllabus. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • MGNREGA and Women Empowerment

    by Annita Ranjan ...
    A lot has changed in Indian social and economic planning since the introduction of the grand rural employment guarantee scheme, now known as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA). The act has been implemented, suffered setbacks, established land-marks, drawn criticism, and collected accolades in all these years. But most significantly it has profoundly changed the character of ... Read more

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  • What Really Counts

    The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy

    by Ronald Colman ...
    Politicians and economists fixate on “growing the economy”—measured by a country’s gross domestic product. But this yardstick counts harmful activities such as greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, and cigarette sales as gains, and it ignores environmental protection, voluntary community work, and other benefits. What we measure is a choice, and what is and isn’t counted determines what sorts ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Violence of the Green Revolution

    Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Poor But Spritied In Karimnagar

    Field Notes Of A Civil Servant

    by Sumita Dawra ...
    The difficulty of finding solutions After six decades of policy-making and planning that appear perfect on paper, vast pockets of poverty persist across the country, accompanied by low human development indices. In Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar, Sumita Dawra recounts her experiences as collector in the district of Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh, and grapples with the question of why even with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Agriculture Productivity Falls

    The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries

    by Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir ...
    Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern ... Read more

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  • Are SDGs a Myth?

    Industrial Development and Water Pollution in India

    by Neeru Bansal, R. Parthasarathy ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book discusses the continued emphasis on development gains in India’s national policies and its quest to meet sustainable development goals. It offers an analysis of the laws and infrastructure for environment protection in the country and their ineffectiveness in dealing with the water pollution which has had dire consequences on India’s ecological landscape.The book, while highlighting the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD