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  • Indian Agriculture

    Performance, growth and challenges. Essays in honour of Ramesh Kumar Sharma

    Edited by Parmod Kumar, S. Mohanakumar ...
    This volume examines the transitions in Indian agriculture since the 1980s, and emphasizes upon the role of neoliberal policies and their impact. The essays presented here deal with a range of pertinent and contemporary issues, including global food security, livelihoods of agricultural labourers, and public and private investment. These weave together glimpses of the impasse faced by petty ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Terri Paajanen ...
    Small scale farming has grown greatly in popularity during the last two decades, with a greater turn in public awareness toward locally grown, organic, grass fed products that have not been modified, chemically altered, or poorly fed. This book will show any potential small scale farmer how to start raising their livestock and marketing it to the organic, natural lifestyle community. You will ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $143.99 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

  • 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

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

    Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Simane Belay, Jokasha Kalangu, Wuta Menas, Pantaleo Munishi, Kumbirai Musiyiwa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent. It includes a set of papers presented at a symposium held in Addis Abeba in February 2016, which brought together international experts to discuss “fostering African resilience and capacity to adapt.” The papers introduce a wide range of methodological approaches and ... Read more

    $188.09 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

    $152.99 USD

  • Methods to Analyse Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility

    Edited by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, Robert M'Barek ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the issue of price volatility in agricultural commodities markets and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 appear to be global and macroeconomic in nature, including the rapid growth in demand by developing countries, the international financial crisis, and exchange rate movements. Some of these factors are new, ... Read more

    $170.09 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

    $89.99 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