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  • Land Use Competition

    Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives

    Edición de Jörg Niewöhner, Antje Bruns, Patrick Hostert, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Juliana Lutz, Daniel Müller, Tobias Krueger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition.Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Understanding Food Insecurity

    Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edición de Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Libro 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, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • The Eurasian Wheat Belt and Food Security

    Global and Regional Aspects

    Edición de Sergio Gomez y Paloma, Sébastien Mary, Stephen Langrell, Pavel Ciaian ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the wheat production developments in the Eurasian region and assesses the potential contribution of the region to domestic and international food security. In particular, the book covers policy and institutional developments of the agricultural sector in Eurasia with a special focus on the horizontal issues relevant to the current and future potential ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Peasants in Power

    The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization

    Mining in Peru

    de Maria-Therese Gustafsson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area’s population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry. Drawing on ethnographic research into Peruvian mining localities, the author analyses a series of relationships which are characterized by confrontations, clientelism, demobilization and strategic ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The WTO and Food Security

    Implications for Developing Countries

    de Sachin Kumar Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of people ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • The Water Crisis in Yemen

    Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East

    de Christopher Ward ...
    Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries

    Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Gender in Agriculture

    Closing the Knowledge Gap

    Edición de Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Terri L. Raney, André Croppenstedt, Julia A. Behrman, Amber Peterman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution

    Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

    Edición de Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD