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]).
American Farmland Preservation: Policies, Practices, and the Politics of Place
1st Edition
By Andrew Waters
June 09, 2026
This book examines modern American farmland preservation, arguing that its policies must address the social, identity, and psychological issues facing American farmers. As American farmland is disappearing rapidly, this crisis not only jeopardizes American agriculture but also threatens rural ...
Sustainable Cacao Cultivation in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Luz Cecilia García, Naga Raju Maddela, Freddy Zambrano Gavilanes, Carolina Aguilar Duarte
May 22, 2026
This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop. Theobroma cacao is an important species originating in the Ecuadorian Amazon and its product chocolate is consumed worldwide. Cacao cultivation is an industry supporting over ...
Nourishing Scotland
1st Edition
By Pete Ritchie
May 13, 2026
This book delves into Scotland's evolving food system, uncovering the challenges of change, tracing food policy progress since devolution in 1999, and envisioning bold strategies for the next 25 years. Food system transformation is a key global challenge for this century. This challenge is ...
Community-Supported Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe: Transitional Economies in Post-Communist Europe
1st Edition
By Magdalena Raftowicz, Mirosław Struś
April 15, 2026
This book analyses Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Central and Eastern Europe, providing a meaningful contribution to the broader discourse on sustainable agriculture and rural development in post-communist states. Drawing on comparative insights between Western and Central-Eastern ...
Agrifood Regimes in Greece: Sociotechnical Dynamics and Sustainable Transitions
1st Edition
By Stathis Arapostathis, Sotiris Alexakis, Vasiliki Karantzavelou, Yannis Fotopoulos
March 23, 2026
This book examines the history and sociotechnical transformations of agrifood regimes in contemporary Greece. It presents a historical sociology of the Greek agrifood sector to decipher dependencies, sociotechnical dynamics, and paths that illuminate current challenges. It argues that no national ...
Digital Communication for Agricultural and Rural Development: Participatory Practices in a Post-COVID Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow
December 26, 2025
This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development ...
The Spatial Organisation of Urban Agriculture in the Global South: Food Security and Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
By Ada Górna
September 29, 2025
This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the Global South. In the face of dynamic urbanisation and negative consequences of climate change, one of the key challenges is not only how to provide food for the ever-growing urban ...
Globalisation and Livelihood Transformations in the Indonesian Seaweed Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Zannie Langford
May 06, 2025
This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds. Seaweed production in Indonesia has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, and rural communities across the country have embraced this new livelihood activity...
Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction
3rd Edition
By Parke Wilde
March 27, 2025
This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States. This book begins with the economic interests of farmers and food producers and then moves on to examine nutrition policy, food justice,...
Pathways to African Food Security: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050
1st Edition
Edited
By Michiel de Haas, Ken E. Giller
January 31, 2025
This book examines Africa’s current food system and future challenges for food security over the next 25 years. Africa is on the rise and by 2050, the continent will be home to a quarter of the world’s population. The analysis presented in this book clearly shows that the African food system needs ...
The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector: Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Wolf, Alessandro Bonanno
January 30, 2025
For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, market integration, expansion of the private sector, and contraction of the welfare state has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. These institutional arrangements ...
Genome Editing and Global Food Security: Molecular Engineering Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
1st Edition
Edited
By Zeba Khan, Durre Shahwar, Yasmin Heikal
December 18, 2024
With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges. This book examines the role of genome editing in improving crop ...