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 Security Policy, Evaluation and Impact Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheryl L. Hendriks
December 13, 2019
This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis. Food insecurity is a major obstacle to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a ...
Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
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By Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf
August 19, 2019
This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to generate a coherent, informed and updated analysis of resistance in agri-food, empirical and theoretical contributions analyze the relationship between...
Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses: Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph A. Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen
August 08, 2019
Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches...
Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
June 06, 2019
Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a ‘model’ of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot to offer in terms of reducing the prospect of ...
Environmental Justice and Farm Labor
1st Edition
By Rebecca E. Berkey
February 04, 2019
Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States. It addresses three main topics: (1) justice-related issues ...
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture: An integrated systems research approach
1st Edition
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By Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe, Michael Phillips, Richard Thomas, Willemien Brooijmans, Kwesi Atta-Krah
February 04, 2019
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Development: Improving Resilience through Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroecology and Conservation
1st Edition
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By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
January 17, 2019
Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security. Feeding nine billion people by 2050 will require major efforts aimed at climate change adaptation and mitigation. One approach to agriculture has recently been captured by the widely adopted ...
Farming, Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
October 23, 2018
Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farming...
Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection
1st Edition
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By Margaret Oliver, Thomas Bishop, Ben Marchant
August 14, 2018
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a ...
Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Greening the World's Food Economy
1st Edition
By Jules Pretty, Zareen Pervez Bharucha
June 08, 2018
Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without...
The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization
2nd Edition
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
June 01, 2018
When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire and globalization was creating new forms of peasantry. This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a reorganization of ...
Agricultural Markets Instability: Revisiting the Recent Food Crises
1st Edition
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By Alberto Garrido, Bernhard Brümmer, Robert M'Barek, Miranda Meuwissen, Cristian Morales-Opazo
April 09, 2018
Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professionals. This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term ...