Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

Berkeley Hill

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. Th... Lees meer

Agricultural Markets Instability

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professi... Lees meer

Political Ecology of Industrial Crops

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformat... Lees meer

Reclaiming Food Security

Michael S Carolan

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Green Revolution

Patrick Kilby

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly refer... Lees meer

Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its ... Lees meer

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural ... Lees meer

The Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia

Felipe Roa-Clavijo

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book explores food provisioning in Colombia by examining the role and impact of the agrarian negotiations which took place in the aftermath of th... Lees meer

The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

Michael Carolan

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the ... Lees meer

Food Policy in the United Kingdom

Martin Caraher, Sinéad Furey, Rebecca Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues. ... Lees meer

Food Systems Failure

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• 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... Lees meer

A Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity

John W Head

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new 'natur... Lees meer

Farming, Food and Nature

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book e... Lees meer

Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability

Molly Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made u... Lees meer

Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional ... Lees meer

The Meat Crisis

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis. Globally, 70 billion farm animals are used for food production every year. It is well accepte... Lees meer

Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness

Robert Hafner

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central. However, situations of inj... Lees meer

Redesigning the Global Seed Commons

Christine Frison

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• 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 prope... Lees meer

Cities and Agriculture

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• 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... Lees meer

Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing n... Lees meer

Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of sou... Lees meer

Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics

John W Head

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from to... Lees meer

Climate Neutral and Resilient Farming Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further provides innovative and practical solutions fo... Lees meer

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural ... Lees meer