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]).
Depolarizing Food and Agriculture: An Economic Approach
1st Edition
By Andrew Barkley, Paul W. Barkley
October 21, 2014
Many issues in food and agriculture are portrayed as increasingly polarized. These include industrial vs. sustainable agriculture, conventional vs. organic production methods, and global vs. local food sourcing, to name only three. This book addresses the origins, validity, consequences, and ...
Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability
1st Edition
By Molly Brown
July 24, 2014
The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine how weather and ...
Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk
1st Edition
By John Williams
February 06, 2014
This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk. The problems of integration and price risk are interwoven in agricultural supply chains with production and supply risk as well as hoarding. However, without supply...
Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock, Hugh Campbell
December 09, 2013
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial...
Reclaiming Food Security
1st Edition
By Michael Carolan
May 22, 2013
In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations – in both the present and future – the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy ...
The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco, Angelo Di Mambro
December 04, 2012
In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and ...
Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller
October 09, 2012
This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with ...
Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security
1st Edition
By John Williams
August 02, 2012
Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, ...
Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy
1st Edition
By Berkeley Hill
January 12, 2012
The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to increase understanding of the nature of existing policies, their development, intentions, problems and ...