Bøger i Earthscan Food and Agriculture serien

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.

This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term implications of instability and its impacts on food chains and consumers.

This book analyses situations of injustice occurring when there is no overt conflict, applying an environmental justice incommensurabilities framework to a case study of soy agribusiness in Argentina.

This book shows how social science can contribute towards reconfiguring legal frameworks to achieve a balance between the requirements of agricultural innovation and access to genetic resources and protection of agrobiodiversity.

Agri-environmental governance has become a highly complex assemblage of actors and instruments, with multiple interrelations. This book addresses this complexity, challenging research both at the theoretical and methodological levels.

This book argues that in order to create a sustainable food supply whilst conserving nature, agriculture and nature must be reconnected and work together.

This volume presents experience and evidence based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges of urban food systems and types of intra- and peri- urban agriculture.

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 framework.

This book systematically and comprehensively describes and classifies the characteristics, trends, drivers of change and strategic priorities for each of thirteen African farming systems and their main subsystems.

Through a set of thematic and case study chapters, this volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime.

This book describes different aspects of systems research in agriculture in its broadest sense, where the focus is moved from farming systems to livelihoods systems.

Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.

Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.

The new edition of this powerful and challenging book explores these iglobal issues surrounding the production and consumption of meat and dairy animals and products, including cultural and health factors, and the implications of the likely intensification of farming for producers, consumers,animals, and the planet itself.

This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term implications of instability and its impacts on food chains and consumers.

This book explains what Climate Smart Agriculture, agroecology and conservation agriculture can contributed to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It presents practical on-the-ground studies of practices and innovations in agriculture in less developed countries.

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.

Presenting a critical evaluation of the evidence supporting claims of rupture of, or incursions into, the Neoliberal model, this book presents an informed, constructive dialogue around the thesis that we have reached some institutional and material limits. It also analyzes pragmatic responses to these critiques including policy initiatives, social mobilization and experimentation at various scales and points of entry.

This volume presents experience and evidence based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges of urban food systems and types of intra- and peri- urban agriculture.

The focus of this book is to introduce for a non-specialist audience the potential of precision agriculture in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits.

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.

Presenting a critical evaluation of the evidence supporting claims of rupture of, or incursions into, the Neoliberal model, this book presents an informed, constructive dialogue around the thesis that we have reached some institutional and material limits. It also analyzes pragmatic responses to these critiques including policy initiatives, social mobilization and experimentation at various scales and points of entry.

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 framework.