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, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming
1st Edition
Edited
By Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta Muhammad, Gordon M. Hickey
April 09, 2018
Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and ...
International Law and Agroecological Husbandry: Building legal foundations for a new agriculture
1st Edition
By John W. Head
January 08, 2018
Remarkable advances are being made in life science and agricultural research to reform the methods of food production, particularly with regard to staple grain and legume crops, in ways that will better reflect ecological realities. However, advances in science may be insufficient to ...
The Meat Crisis: Developing more Sustainable and Ethical Production and Consumption
2nd Edition
Edited
By Joyce D'Silva, John Webster
August 21, 2017
Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis. Globally, 70 billion farm animals are used for food production every year. It is well accepted that livestock production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ...
Food, Agriculture and Social Change: The Everyday Vitality of Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Sherwood, Alberto Arce, Myriam Paredes
June 01, 2017
In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in ...
Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörg Gertel, Sarah Ruth Sippel
May 25, 2017
Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. ...
Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Prabhu Pingali, Gershon Feder
May 12, 2017
Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world. This textbook provides a comprehensive review and assessment of the multi-faceted nature of agriculture and rural development, particularly in the developing...
Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth: Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Niek Koning
April 19, 2017
Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred ...
Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power: Evolution and exploitation
1st Edition
By James F. Hancock
February 27, 2017
Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture – "best" through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "worst" as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers. This book traces ...
Forgotten Agricultural Heritage: Reconnecting food systems and sustainable development
1st Edition
By Parviz Koohafkan, Miguel A. Altieri
December 12, 2016
Contemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its disconnectedness from nature and culture. Yet there are many examples of traditional smaller scale systems that have survived the test of time and ...
Food Production and Nature Conservation: Conflicts and Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain J. Gordon, Herbert H.T. Prins, Geoff R. Squire
November 29, 2016
Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle. Doing so without causing damage to nature poses an even greater challenge. This book argues that in order to create a sustainable food supply whilst conserving ...
Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Henk de Zeeuw, Pay Drechsel
October 05, 2015
As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art" chapters ...
Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm
1st Edition
Edited
By Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley
May 27, 2015
In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this ...