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]).
Climate Change and Agricultural Development: Improving Resilience through Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroecology and Conservation
1st Edition
Edited
By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
January 17, 2019
Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security. Feeding nine billion people by 2050 will require major efforts aimed at climate change adaptation and mitigation. One approach to agriculture has recently been captured by the widely adopted ...
Farming, Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
October 23, 2018
Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farming...
Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Oliver, Thomas Bishop, Ben Marchant
August 14, 2018
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a ...
Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Greening the World's Food Economy
1st Edition
By Jules N. Pretty, Zareen Pervez Bharucha
June 08, 2018
Sustainable intensification (SI) has emerged in recent years as a powerful new conceptualisation of agricultural sustainability and has been widely adopted in policy circles and debates. It is defined as a process or system where yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without...
The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization
2nd Edition
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
June 01, 2018
When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire and globalization was creating new forms of peasantry. This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a reorganization of ...
Agricultural Markets Instability: Revisiting the Recent Food Crises
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Garrido, Bernhard Brümmer, Robert M'Barek, Miranda Meuwissen, Cristian Morales-Opazo
April 09, 2018
Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professionals. This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term ...
Food Security, Gender and Resilience: Improving Smallholder and Subsistence Farming
1st Edition
Edited
By Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta Muhammad, Gordon M. Hickey
April 09, 2018
Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and ...
International Law and Agroecological Husbandry: Building legal foundations for a new agriculture
1st Edition
By John W. Head
January 08, 2018
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 ...
The Meat Crisis: Developing more Sustainable and Ethical Production and Consumption
2nd Edition
Edited
By Joyce D'Silva, John Webster
August 21, 2017
Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis. Globally, 70 billion farm animals are used for food production every year. It is well accepted that livestock production is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ...
Food, Agriculture and Social Change: The Everyday Vitality of Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Sherwood, Alberto Arce, Myriam Paredes
June 01, 2017
In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in ...
Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
1st Edition
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By Jörg Gertel, Sarah Ruth Sippel
May 25, 2017
Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. ...
Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
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By Prabhu Pingali, Gershon Feder
May 12, 2017
Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world. This textbook provides a comprehensive review and assessment of the multi-faceted nature of agriculture and rural development, particularly in the developing...