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]).
Genetically Modified Crops and Food Security: Commercial, Ethical and Health Considerations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasmeet Kour, Vishal Sharma, Imtiyaz Khanday
August 26, 2024
This book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops to understand how they are produced, the impacts on the agricultural industry, and their potential for improving food security. The production of GM crops has now become an invaluable asset in the agricultural toolbox. With a ...
Climate Neutral and Resilient Farming Systems: Practical Solutions for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
1st Edition
Edited
By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
May 27, 2024
This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further provides innovative and practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impact of climate change. Intensive farming systems are a significant source of greenhouse ...
Principles of Sustainable Aquaculture: Promoting Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience
2nd Edition
By Stuart W. Bunting
March 29, 2024
This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience. Aquaculture has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past 50 years, and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high-quality ...
Brewing Sustainability in the Coffee and Tea Industries: From Producer to Consumer
1st Edition
By Alissa Bilfield
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on the often intertwined industries of coffee and tea, using accounts of single producer communities to highlight the transformation from plantation-style colonial agriculture towards systems that now claim to produce social and environmental benefits from the farm to the cup. ...
University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa: Community Action Research Platforms
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, Kay Muir Leresche
December 01, 2023
This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges. The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an approach that has successfully enabled African ...
The Governance of Agriculture in Post-Brexit UK
1st Edition
Edited
By Irene Antonopoulos, Matt Bell, Aleksandra Čavoški, Ludivine Petetin
September 25, 2023
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of Brexit on British agriculture and associated areas, discussing the Common Agricultural Policy and the Agriculture Act 2020. The Brexit referendum provoked new debates and questions over the future of agriculture in Britain and the ...
Food Policy in the United Kingdom: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Martin Caraher, Sinéad Furey, Rebecca Wells
July 24, 2023
This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues. The book begins by providing a wide-ranging introduction to food policy in the UK, situating it within wider global debates and establishing key ...
The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia: Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State
1st Edition
By Felipe Roa-Clavijo
May 31, 2023
This book explores food provisioning in Colombia by examining the role and impact of the agrarian negotiations which took place in the aftermath of the 2013–2014 national strikes. Most of the research in the field of agrarian studies in Colombia has focused on inequalities in land distribution, ...
Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics: Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture
1st Edition
By Dr John Head
January 09, 2023
Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today’s modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural‐systems agriculture. In order to provide an imaginative foundation on ...
Fighting for Farming Justice: Diversity, Food Access and the USDA
1st Edition
By Terri R. Jett
January 09, 2023
This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds. These settlements shed light...
The Sociology of Farming: Concepts and Methods
1st Edition
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
October 19, 2022
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of the sociology of farming. The sociology of farming focuses on co-production: the ongoing interaction and mutual transformation of the natural and the social (of ‘human and living nature’) which requires ...
Net Zero, Food and Farming: Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System
1st Edition
By Neil Ward
August 04, 2022
This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, nothing short of a ...