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  • Routledge Handbook of Contract Farming and Development

    Edited by Caroline Hambloch, Niels Fold, Sudha Narayanan, Mark Vicol ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Contract Farming and Development assesses the main conceptual, methodological and theoretical debates surrounding contract farming, and its implications for rural development in the Global South.Contract farming has rapidly expanded in the Global South in the wake of structural adjustment, providing an intermediate form of agricultural organization between open ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • Industrial Applications of Marine Biopolymers

    Edited by Parappurath Narayanan Sudha ...
    Industrial Applications of Marine Biopolymers presents different classes of marine biopolymers and their industrial applications, demonstrating the precious value of ocean resources to society. This timely volume discusses the exceedingly useful polymers derived from these materials that are biodegradable, biocompatible, and at times water soluble. Direct use or chemically modified forms of such ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Contract Farming in Developing Countries

    The Promise and Its Perils

    by Sudha Narayanan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be ... Read more

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  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    by Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Sustainable Development

    by Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd ...
    This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assessment, management and policy ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Food Policy for Developing Countries

    The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems

    by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II ...
    Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Gender In Agriculture Sourcebook

    by World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization; International Fund for Agricultural Development ...
    The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs.It is serves as a tool for: guidance; showcasing key principles in integrating gender into projects; stimulating the imagination ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Agriculture Investment Sourcebook

    by World Bank ...
    Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in ways that reduce the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Coffee Paradox

    Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development

    by Benoit Daviron, Stefano Ponte ...
    Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

    by Heather E. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Corley ...
    This timely book provides a wealth of information to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators identify relevant urban environmental problems and an array of potential solutions, analyze policy solutions and outcomes, and communicate with the public regarding urban environmental problems and policies. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cotton

    by Adam Sneyd ...
    Series series Resources
    Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics that envelop cotton as major corporate players and countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas compete to control it.In the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The State of Food and Agriculture 2017. Leveraging Food Systems for Inclusive Rural Transformation

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to become the engine of inclusive economic development and rural prosperity in low-income countries. It analyses the structural and rural transformations now under way, and examines the opportunities and challenges they present to millions of small-scale food producers. It shows how an "agroterritorial" planning ... Read more

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