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]).
Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake, Karimbhai M. Maredia
August 01, 2022
Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems. With food and ...
Farming with the Environment: Thirty Years of Allerton Project Research
1st Edition
By Chris Stoate
July 29, 2022
This book examines, discusses and shares over 30 years’ worth of research from the Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm in the UK which has been carrying out applied interdisciplinary research to explore and explain the need to adapt the management of farmland for environmental ...
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World
1st Edition
By Glenn Davis Stone
June 30, 2022
The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization...
The United Nations' Declaration on Peasants' Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Mariagrazia Alabrese, Adriana Bessa, Margherita Brunori, Pier Filippo Giuggioli
January 24, 2022
This is the first book to address and review the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018. Food security and sustainable agri-food systems, responsible ...
The Sociology of Food and Agriculture
3rd Edition
By Michael Carolan
September 27, 2021
Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes, the financialization of food, and a ...
Farming Systems and Food Security in Africa: Priorities for Science and Policy Under Global Change
1st Edition
Edited
By John Dixon, Dennis P. Garrity, Jean-Marc Boffa, Timothy O. Williams, Tilahun Amede, Christopher Auricht, Rosemary Lott, George Mburathi
August 02, 2021
Knowledge of Africa’s complex farming systems, set in their socio-economic and environmental context, is an essential ingredient to developing effective strategies for improving food and nutrition security.This book systematically and comprehensively describes the characteristics, trends, drivers ...
Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa: Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard A. Sikora, Eugene R. Terry, Paul L.G. Vlek, Joyce Chitja
June 30, 2021
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges ...
A Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity: New Agriculture in a World of Legitimate Eco-states
1st Edition
By John W. Head
March 31, 2021
This book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new ‘natural-systems’ form of agriculture. Profound global climate disruption makes it essential that we replace our current agricultural system – described in...
Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage: Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jérémie Forney, Chris Rosin, Hugh Campbell
March 31, 2021
In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge. A multiplicity of actors have been enrolled in this process, with the private sector and civil society progressively becoming key components in a global context often described as ...
Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe
1st Edition
By Raquel Ajates Gonzalez
March 31, 2021
Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. This book analyses to what extent farmers' ...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food: Development and Democratization
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandro Bonanno, Kae Sekine, Hart N. Feuer
March 31, 2021
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas.A geographical indication is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin ...
Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa: Sustainable Food Security Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Elisabeth Simelton, Madelene Ostwald
March 31, 2021
This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.Food security and livelihoods in Africa face multiple challenges in the form of feeding a growing...