Earthscan Food and Agriculture: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food and agriculture, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
American Farmland Preservation: Policies, Practices and the Politics of Place
1st Edition
By Andrew Waters
July 02, 2026
This book examines modern American farmland preservation, arguing that its policies must address the social, identity, and psychological issues facing American farmers. As American farmland is disappearing rapidly, this crisis not only jeopardizes American agriculture but also threatens rural ...
Nature-Based Solutions for European Vineyards: Solutions for Transformative Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
June 18, 2026
This transdisciplinary book explores the potential benefits and challenges of implementing nature-based solutions in vineyard landscapes across a range of European countries. Most agricultural landscapes including vineyards have abandoned their traditional management practices making them ...
Decolonising Seed Governance in the Andes: Lessons for Just and Sustainable Food Futures
1st Edition
By Juan Garzón
June 12, 2026
Focusing on the Latin American Andes region, this book examines how emerging decolonial narratives, practices, and rules have opened possibilities for structural change in agri-food systems. The book argues that the contemporary global agri-food crisis is the outcome of a modern and colonial ...
Nourishing Scotland
1st Edition
By Pete Ritchie
May 29, 2026
This book delves into Scotland's evolving food system, uncovering the challenges of change, tracing food policy progress since devolution in 1999, and envisioning bold strategies for the next twenty-five years. Food system transformation is a key global challenge for this century. This challenge is...
Agrifood Regimes in Greece: Sociotechnical Dynamics and Sustainable Transitions
1st Edition
By Stathis Arapostathis, Sotiris Alexakis, Vasiliki Karantzavelou, Yannis Fotopoulos
March 23, 2026
This book examines the history and sociotechnical transformations of agrifood regimes in contemporary Greece. It presents a historical sociology of the Greek agrifood sector to decipher dependencies, sociotechnical dynamics, and paths that illuminate current challenges. It argues that no national ...
Community Supported Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Transitional Economies in Post-Communist Europe
1st Edition
By Magdalena Raftowicz, Mirosław Struś
February 26, 2026
This book analyses Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Central and Eastern Europe, providing a meaningful contribution to the broader discourse on sustainable agriculture and rural development in post-communist states. Drawing on comparative insights between Western and Central-Eastern ...
Digital Communication for Agricultural and Rural Development: Participatory Practices in a Post-COVID Age
1st Edition
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By Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow
December 26, 2025
This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development ...
The Spatial Organisation of Urban Agriculture in the Global South: Food Security and Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
By Ada Górna
September 29, 2025
This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the Global South. In the face of dynamic urbanisation and negative consequences of climate change, one of the key challenges is not only how to provide food for the ever-growing urban ...
Sustainable Production of Root and Tuber Crops
1st Edition
Edited
By Ravinder Kumar, Milan Kumar Lal, Rahul Kumar Tiwari, Brajesh Singh
June 25, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective. With a focus on sustainable production methods, the book offers valuable insights and perspectives on how to improve the...
Agricultural Land Use: Structural Transformations, Environment Challenges, Planning and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerzy Bański
June 12, 2025
This book presents contemporary trends and challenges in agricultural land use, drawing on an array of global case studies. This volume examines agricultural land use through a three-pronged approach: structural transformations, environmental challenges, and planning and policy. Reflecting the ...
Multiple Capitals Approach for Upland Agricultural Systems
1st Edition
By Lois Mansfield
June 05, 2025
This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive. Marginal upland agricultural systems have been distorted and derailed by modern economics, politics, and the drive to ...
Globalisation and Livelihood Transformations in the Indonesian Seaweed Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Zannie Langford
May 06, 2025
This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds. Seaweed production in Indonesia has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, and rural communities across the country have embraced this new livelihood activity...