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  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    Edited by Prabhu Pingali, Robert E. Evenson ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Agricultural Economics
    Advances in agriculture offer many countries the best and only chance of reducing poverty. Yet economic growth and population increases are driving higher demand for food and rising real prices. What solutions have successfully promoted agriculture? This volume examines national and international food agriculture policies and how they enhance agricultural productivity growth. It provides unique ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

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  • Mastering the Grain Markets: How Profits Are Really Made

    by Elaine Kub ...
    Despite being excited by and interested in the grain markets, many participants crave a better understanding of them. Now there is a book to deliver that understanding in ways that could help you make money trading grain.Elaine Kub uses her talents for rigorous analysis and clear, approachable communication to offer this 360-degree look at all aspects of grain trading. From the seasonal patterns ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tree Faller's Manual

    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Agricultural Marketing

    Structural Models for Price Analysis

    by James Vercammen ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    The price of food has become very volatile in recent years for a variety of reasons, including a strengthened connection between the prices of agricultural commodities and other commodities such as oil and metals, more volatile production due to more frequent droughts and floods, and a rising demand for biofuels. Understanding the determinants of agricultural commodity prices and the connections ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Market Threads

    How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity

    by Koray Çalişkan ...
    What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk

    by John Williams ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk. The problems of integration and price risk are interwoven in agricultural supply chains with production and supply risk as well as hoarding. However, without supply chain integration through commercial trade markets there can be no forward market upon which forward ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Financial Management for Agribusiness

    Edited by WJ Obst, R Graham, G Christie ...
    Financial Management for Agribusiness presents a practical approach to financial decision making for all those involved in agribusiness, including farmers, horticulturists and supporting businesses, to manage invested funds, physical resources and labour. It covers all the stages leading to a completed business plan and provides straightforward worked examples for each step. The authors emphasise ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Coconut Calvary: An Inquirer I-Team Special Report

    by philippinedailyinquirer ...
    In this three-part special report, originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, i-Team editor Fernando del Mundo delves into the long-simmering controversy over the Philippine coconut levy funds and finds that the coconut farmers intended to be the funds' beneficiaries have been left largely empty-handed. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy

    An Imperfect Storm

    Edited by Johan F.M. Swinnen ...
    After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment, its contribution to global climate change and to food security in the EU and in the world.It was decided ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Blood Oranges

    Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands

    by Timothy P. Bowman ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mexicans in the region to rank among the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest demographic in the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Napa at Last Light

    America's Eden in an Age of Calamity

    by James Conaway ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the American dream—and how it could be lost—in “a strong plea for responsible stewardship of the land” (Kirkus Reviews).Not so long ago, wine was an exclusively European product. Now it is thoroughly ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 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