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]).
Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction
3rd Edition
By Parke Wilde
March 27, 2025
This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States. This book begins with the economic interests of farmers and food producers and then moves on to examine nutrition policy, food justice,...
Agricultural and Climate Change Adaptation Law in Africa: Reflections from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
1st Edition
By Habib Sani Usman
February 17, 2025
This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation. Agriculture is one of the sectors of the economy that is contributing to climate change, and at ...
Pathways to African Food Security: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050
1st Edition
Edited
By Michiel de Haas, Ken E. Giller
January 31, 2025
This book examines Africa’s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next 25 years. Africa is on the rise and by 2050, the continent will be home to a quarter of the world’s population. The analysis presented in this book clearly shows that the African food system needs ...
The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector: Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Wolf, Alessandro Bonanno
January 30, 2025
For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements ...
Sustainable Cacao Cultivation in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Luz Cecilia García, Naga Raju Maddela, Freddy Zambrano Gavilanes, Carolina Aguilar Duarte
December 27, 2024
This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop. Theobroma cacao is an important species originating in the Ecuadorian Amazon and its product chocolate is consumed worldwide. Cacao cultivation is an industry supporting over ...
Genome Editing and Global Food Security: Molecular Engineering Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
1st Edition
Edited
By Zeba Khan, Durre Shahwar, Yasmin Heikal
December 18, 2024
With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges. This book examines the role of genome editing in improving crop ...
Peasants, Capitalism, and Imperialism in an Age of Politico-Ecological Crisis
1st Edition
By Mark Tilzey, Fraser Sugden
December 18, 2024
This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South. In this companion volume to Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf, the authors further ...
Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf: Reviving Critical Agrarian Studies
1st Edition
By Mark Tilzey, Fraser Sugden, David Seddon
December 18, 2024
Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolf’s celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path-breaking Europe and the People Without History, this book offers a much-needed critical assessment and update of Wolf’s contribution to the study of ...
Conservation Agriculture in India: A Paradigm Shift for Sustainable Production
1st Edition
Edited
By A.R. Sharma
October 09, 2024
This book examines the current situation, levels of adoption, management practices, and the future outlook of conservation agriculture in India, and also in other tropical and subtropical regions of the world. While conservation agriculture is proposed as an important means to combat climate ...
Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany: Commons-Based Agriculture and Social-Ecological Resilience
1st Edition
By Hendrik Wolter
October 09, 2024
Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely. As fruit breeding and cultivation systems are confronted with a range of sustainability ...
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets: Human, Animal and Planetary Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
September 04, 2024
This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop...
Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food: Insights from Ghana and Cambodia
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Dzodzi Tsikata
August 26, 2024
This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective. Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for ...