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]).
Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System
1st Edition
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By Douglas H. Constance, Jason T. Konefal, Maki Hatanaka
August 14, 2020
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 ...
Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness
1st Edition
By Robert Hafner
July 31, 2020
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 ...
The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research: Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity
1st Edition
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By Fabien Girard, Christine Frison
July 31, 2020
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...
Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives
1st Edition
By Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, Aijuan Chen
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security
1st Edition
By Christine Frison
June 30, 2020
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 ...
The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems: Contested Transformations
1st Edition
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By Hilde Bjorkhaug, André Magnan, Geoffrey Lawrence
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Food Security Policy, Evaluation and Impact Assessment
1st Edition
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By Sheryl L. Hendriks
December 13, 2019
This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis. Food insecurity is a major obstacle to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a ...
Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
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By Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf
August 19, 2019
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...
Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses: Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania
1st Edition
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By Joseph A. Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen
August 08, 2019
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...
Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
June 06, 2019
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 ...
Environmental Justice and Farm Labor
1st Edition
By Rebecca E. Berkey
February 04, 2019
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 ...
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture: An integrated systems research approach
1st Edition
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By Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe, Michael Phillips, Richard Thomas, Willemien Brooijmans, Kwesi Atta-Krah
February 04, 2019
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 ...