Routledge Library Editions: Agribusiness and Land Use
Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa
1st Edition
By Paul Richards
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing ...
Land Use: An Introduction to Proprietary Land Use Analysis
1st Edition
By D. R. Denman, S. Prodano
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1972, this work shed new light on the study of land use. The key to the analysis was the proprietary land unit, within which all positive decisions touching land use are made. The analysis has a universal relevance, irrespective of social order, economic philosophy and ...
Nowhere To Go But Down?: Peasant Farming and the International Development Game
1st Edition
By Andrew S. MacDonald
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1989, this book is a unique examination of subsistence farming in the developing world, and its potential for development. The author writes from the conviction that the farming system is limited in its potential for development by the energy value of manpower and that ...
Origins of Ownership: A Brief History of Land Ownership and Tenure from Earliest Time to the Modern Era
1st Edition
By D. R. Denman
April 01, 2025
The English systems of land tenure have influenced land-holding far beyond Britain. Freehold, for example, a common-place in many places, has its origin in the feudal tenure of Anglo-Norman England. Much has been written about the origins of English land ownership but the contributions are hidden. ...
Planning for Agricultural Development
1st Edition
By J. A. Mollett
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1984, this text was written as a guide to agricultural policy makers, planners and project managers in developing countries, particularly for those in the areas of programme formulation and implementation. Elements from successful agricultural and rural development plans ...
Producers and Consumers: A Study in Co-Operative Relations
1st Edition
By Margaret Digby
April 01, 2025
Although originally published in 1928, many of the issues discussed in this book remain pertinent today: in unstable markets grappling with labour shortages, how to pay the producers of food a fair price, at a price the consumer can afford, whilst maximising efficiency and minimising waste. Against...
Rich Man's Farming: The Crisis in Agriculture
1st Edition
By Michael Franklin
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1988, this book was written at a time of excessive budgetary costs, huge surpluses and damaging trade conflicts. This study examines why a crisis situation was allowed to develop, nd proposes the most effective ways, both nationally and internationally – to chieve more ...
The Common Agricultural Policy: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Brian E. Hill
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1984, this book provides an introduction to the history of agriculture in Western Europe, states the case for government intervention and analyses the operation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the late 20th Century. It concludes that the costs of the policy ...
The Common Agricultural Policy: Prospects for Change
1st Edition
By Joan Pearce
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, at a time when the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy had remained largely unchanged, this book examines the criticisms of the CAP and analyses the pressures emanating from the budget and the various options which were available for tackling them. It then outlines the ...
The Farmers of Old England
1st Edition
By Eric Kerridge
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world. The history of the land itself is covered, as well as farming techniques and a farming as a ...
The State and the Farmer
1st Edition
By Peter Self, Herbert J. Storing
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book is written primarily for planners, public administrators and project managers in countries or international agencies considering a development strategy in which agribusiness and rural enterprise projects are viewed as a desirable policy instrument for ...
Trends of Agriculture in the Ganges Valley: A Study in Agricultural Economics
1st Edition
By Birendranath Ganguli
April 01, 2025
Originally published in 1938, this book explores the problem of the adjustment of the population in the early 20th century to the agricultural-economic environment in a geographical and economic setting. The study of the modern problem of population growth is also one of human adjustment in its ...