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]).
Consumers, Meat and Animal Products: Policies, Regulations and Marketing
1st Edition
By Terence J. Centner
December 18, 2020
This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety of products to meet consumer demand. Food animal production practices have come under increased scrutiny by consumers who object to inputs and ...
Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations: Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn E. Sachs
December 18, 2020
This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other ...
Governing Sustainable Seafood
1st Edition
By Simon Bush, Peter Oosterveer
September 30, 2020
Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions. Due to the importance of protein and other fishery and aquaculture...
The Green Revolution: Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender
1st Edition
By Patrick Kilby
September 30, 2020
This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s. Building on the historical assessment, it draws insights for contemporary policy debates and ...
The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture
1st Edition
By Rob J.F. Burton, Jérémie Forney, Paul Stock, Lee-Ann Sutherland
September 14, 2020
Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research....
Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification: Technology and Policy Challenges in the Face of Climate Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
August 14, 2020
Sustainable Intensification (SI) has recently emerged as a key concept for agricultural development, recognising that yields must increase to feed a growing world population, but it must be achieved without damage to the environment, on finite land resources and while preserving social and ...
Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System
1st Edition
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By Douglas H. Constance, Jason T. Konefal, Maki Hatanaka
August 14, 2020
The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability. Using an incremental/reformist to ...
Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness
1st Edition
By Robert Hafner
July 31, 2020
Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central. However, situations of injustice can still occur even if there is no overt conflict. Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness fills this gap by applying an ...
The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research: Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
1st Edition
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By Fabien Girard, Christine Frison
July 31, 2020
The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective. While more food is undeniably needed, the key question is rather about how to produce it in a way...
Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives
1st Edition
By Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Aijuan Chen
June 30, 2020
Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China’s cities. This book shows how a set of social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions have ...
Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security
1st Edition
By Christine Frison
June 30, 2020
There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First, it studies in detail the International ...
The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems: Contested Transformations
1st Edition
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By Hilde Bjorkhaug, André Magnan, Geoffrey Lawrence
June 30, 2020
Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. The premise of this book is that the actions of financial actors, and their financial logics, are ...