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]).
Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth: Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Niek Koning
April 19, 2017
Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred ...
Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power: Evolution and exploitation
1st Edition
By James F. Hancock
February 27, 2017
Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture โ "best" through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "worst" as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers. This book traces ...
Forgotten Agricultural Heritage: Reconnecting food systems and sustainable development
1st Edition
By Parviz Koohafkan, Miguel A. Altieri
December 12, 2016
Contemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its disconnectedness from nature and culture. Yet there are many examples of traditional smaller scale systems that have survived the test of time and ...
Food Production and Nature Conservation: Conflicts and Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain J. Gordon, Herbert H.T. Prins, Geoff R. Squire
November 29, 2016
Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle. Doing so without causing damage to nature poses an even greater challenge. This book argues that in order to create a sustainable food supply whilst conserving ...
Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Henk de Zeeuw, Pay Drechsel
October 05, 2015
As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art" chapters ...
Sustainable Food Systems: Building a New Paradigm
1st Edition
Edited
By Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley
May 27, 2015
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 ...
Depolarizing Food and Agriculture: An Economic Approach
1st Edition
By Andrew Barkley, Paul W. Barkley
October 21, 2014
Many issues in food and agriculture are portrayed as increasingly polarized. These include industrial vs. sustainable agriculture, conventional vs. organic production methods, and global vs. local food sourcing, to name only three. This book addresses the origins, validity, consequences, and ...
Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability
1st Edition
By Molly Brown
July 24, 2014
The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine how weather and ...
Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk
1st Edition
By John Williams
February 06, 2014
This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk. The problems of integration and price risk are interwoven in agricultural supply chains with production and supply risk as well as hoarding. However, without supply...
Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Rosin, Paul Stock, Hugh Campbell
December 09, 2013
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial...
Reclaiming Food Security
1st Edition
By Michael S. Carolan
May 22, 2013
In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations โ in both the present and future โ the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy ...
The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco, Angelo Di Mambro
December 04, 2012
In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and ...