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Sociology of Farming
Concepts and Methods
Häftad, 2022
606 kr
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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of the sociology of farming. The sociology of farming focuses on co-production: the ongoing interaction and mutual transformation of the natural and the social (of ‘human and living nature’) which requires …
Sustainable Food Systems
Building a New Paradigm
Av Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley
Häftad, 2015
820 kr
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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 …
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets
Human, Animal and Planetary Health
Av Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
Häftad, 2024
591 kr
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This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop …
Agricultural Dilemma
How Not to Feed the World
Häftad, 2022
620 kr
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The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization …
Multifunctional Land Uses in Africa
Sustainable Food Security Solutions
Av Elisabeth Simelton, Madelene Ostwald
Inbunden, 2019
2519 kr
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This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.Food security and livelihoods in Africa face multiple challenges in the form of feeding a growing …
Fighting for Farming Justice
Diversity, Food Access and the USDA
Inbunden, 2020
920 kr
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This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds. These settlements shed light …
International Law and Agroecological Husbandry
Building legal foundations for a new agriculture
Av John W. Head
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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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 ensure that …
Green Revolution
Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender
Inbunden, 2019
1000 kr
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This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly referred to as a second Green Revolution in the 2000s. Building on the historical assessment, it draws insights for contemporary policy debates and …
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture
An integrated systems research approach
Av Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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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 …
Environmental Justice and Farm Labor
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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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 facing farmers …
Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil
Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism
Av Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Häftad, 2019
744 kr
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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 …
Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity
New Agriculture in a World of Legitimate Eco-states
Av John W. Head
Inbunden, 2019
2317 kr
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This book examines global environmental governance and how legal, institutional, and conceptual reform can facilitate a transformation to a new ‘natural-systems’ form of agriculture. Profound global climate disruption makes it essential that we replace our current agricultural system – described in …
Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses
Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania
Av Joseph A. Kuzilwa, Niels Fold m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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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 …
Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime
A Critical Analysis
Av Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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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 …
Political Ecology of Industrial Crops
Av Abubakari Ahmed, Alexandros Gasparatos
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation. Using the conceptual tools and perspectives of political ecology, namely multi-scalar analysis and attention to marginalisation, social …
Governance of Agriculture in Post-Brexit UK
Av Irene Antonopoulos, Matt Bell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2519 kr
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This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of Brexit on British agriculture and associated areas, discussing the Common Agricultural Policy and the Agriculture Act 2020.The Brexit referendum provoked new debates and questions over the future of agriculture in Britain and the …
Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods
Av D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake, Karimbhai M. Maredia
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems.With food and …
Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage
Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation
Av Jérémie Forney, Chris Rosin m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge. A multiplicity of actors have been enrolled in this process, with the private sector and civil society progressively becoming key components in a global context often described as …
Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research
Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
Av Fabien Girard, Christine Frison
Häftad, 2020
665 kr
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The joint challenges of population increase, food security and conservation of agrobiodiversity demand a rethink of plant breeding and agricultural research from a different perspective. While more food is undeniably needed, the key question is rather about how to produce it in a way that sustains …
Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness
Häftad, 2020
693 kr
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Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central. However, situations of injustice can still occur even if there is no overt conflict. Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness fills this gap by applying an environmental …
Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. This book analyses to what extent farmers' …
Redesigning the Global Seed Commons
Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security
Häftad, 2020
638 kr
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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 property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First, it studies in detail the International …
Financialization of Agri-Food Systems
Contested Transformations
Av Hilde Bjorkhaug, André Magnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. The premise of this book is that the actions of financial actors, and their financial logics, are …
Organic Food and Farming in China
Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives
Av Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China’s cities. This book shows how a set of social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions have …
Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System
Av Douglas H. Constance, Jason T. Konefal m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability. Using an incremental/reformist to …
Agricultural Development and Sustainable Intensification
Technology and Policy Challenges in the Face of Climate Change
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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Sustainable Intensification (SI) has recently emerged as a key concept for agricultural development, recognising that yields must increase to feed a growing world population, but it must be achieved without damage to the environment, on finite land resources and while preserving social and natural …
Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics
Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture
Av John W. Head
Inbunden, 2020
2317 kr
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Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today’s modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural‐systems agriculture. In order to provide an imaginative foundation on which to …
Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics
Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture
Av John W. Head
Häftad, 2023
598 kr
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Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today’s modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural‐systems agriculture. In order to provide an imaginative foundation on which to …
Governing Sustainable Seafood
Av Simon Bush, Peter Oosterveer
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions.Due to the importance of protein and other fishery and aquaculture …
Politics of Food Provisioning in Colombia
Agrarian Movements and Negotiations with the State
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book explores food provisioning in Colombia by examining the role and impact of the agrarian negotiations which took place in the aftermath of the 2013–2014 national strikes.Most of the research in the field of agrarian studies in Colombia has focused on inequalities in land distribution, the …
