This edited volume scrutinizes how economic, socio-cultural, and political-normative systems govern the reach of water among rural women living in extreme poverty. It offers local, regional, and global perspectives on water and agricultural sustai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Little Toller Books, ISBN-13: 9781915068576)
In this new anthology for the Campaign to Protect Rural England leading writers and thinkers on the land, social history and ecology, re-imagine the future of the countryside, searching for a more sustainable and thriving countryside....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198972020)
The dominant discourse views the Indian economys transformation over several decades as a progression towards a grand, unified, and dynamic market economy. Critiquing this discourse, The Nonfarm Economy illustrates the prevalence and intens...Loe edasi...
Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fifth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors. This key text intro...Loe edasi...
Principles of Agricultural Economics introduces economic principles in a succinct and reader-friendly format, providing students and instructors with a clear, up-to-date, and straightforward approach to learning how a market-based economy f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198966951)
The rise of German science and technology in the nineteenth century had a significant impact on food production on a global scale. The spread of scientific methods facilitated the emergence of those mass markets that determine consumption patterns up...Loe edasi...
Miguel Cabo, Juri Auderset, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Juan Pan-Montojo, Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia, Ernst Langthaler, Federico DOnofrio, Jonathan Harwood, Juan Pan-Montojo...
An overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation in the past, and of the paradigms and institutional frameworks in which they were developed throughout the twentieth century.From the la...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035317516)
In this enlightening book, leading expert Carla Barbieri pairs research-based insights and practical knowledge from the growing agritourism sector, highlighting key developments in the field and identifying paths for future research and practice....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: James Currey, ISBN-13: 9781847014221)
What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?Bringing together scholars in ecology...Loe edasi...
Examines emotional aspects of economic life in the marketplaces of Papua New Guinea, where market womens labour is a nexus for gender relations. Economies of Care explores how women market traders in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, navig...Loe edasi...
Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Marco Maialetti, Luca Salvati
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035357710)
This prescient book discusses the importance of reducing the environmental impacts of economic growth in agricultural regions. It examines the relationship between efforts to achieve economically viable food production in marginal and peripheral inla...Loe edasi...
This book describes how foraging for spontaneous plants has become intrinsic to the social fabric in the Case Delle Erbe movement in the Italian Apennines. This exchange-based experience economy empowers people to live with greater freedom and cre...Loe edasi...
With the current administration pausing funding for agricultural projects and farming support, the issues discussed in this book are more urgent and relevant than ever before. The system of agriculture needs to be reimagined. This book is the b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804297766)
A LANDMARK OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AND SOCIAL INQUIRY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORAcclaimed worldwide, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the acknowledged classic on rural poverty in India. Three decades after public...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers,...Loe edasi...
The robustly updated eighth edition of the seminal textbook Introduction to Agricultural Economics provides students with a systematic overview to the fundamental economic concepts and issues within the U.S. food and fiber industry. The authors cove...Loe edasi...
Sari: World Scientific Lecture Notes In Economics And Policy
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819801121)
This textbook is about modern agricultural economics and policy aimed at advanced degree students. Based on the lecture notes taught at the University of California, Berkeley, it presents a comprehensive perspective on agricultural policy, its evolu...Loe edasi...
Sari: World Scientific Lecture Notes In Economics And Policy
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811299162)
This textbook is about modern agricultural economics and policy aimed at advanced degree students. Based on the lecture notes taught at the University of California, Berkeley, it presents a comprehensive perspective on agricultural policy, its evolu...Loe edasi...
Organic Food and Farming: A Reference Handbook is a valuable resource for students and general readers curious about the history, evolution, and growth of the organic food movement.This book begins with a deep dive into the o...Loe edasi...
In Real Vanilla, Nature’s Unsung Hero LittlePod’s founder Janet Sawyer tells of her company’s mission over the last fifteen years to save real vanilla which was under threat of being lost within a generation. They have made a huge difference, en...Loe edasi...
