Agricultural Development Books

New and Published Books

1. U.S. Food Policy

   Anthropology and Advocacy in the Public Interest

   Edited by Lisa Markowitz, John Brett

   Inequity of control over food systems is a particularly insidious form of injustice. Collectively, the contributors to this volume posit that this inequity is rooted in power asymmetries in the U.S. food system and codified through U.S. food policies. This process puts the public at risk in the U.S...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

   Lessons from Cuba

   By Julia Wright

   When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now – only systematic and empirical study to come...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

   Themes and Case Studies

   Edited by Marc Cohen, Melinda Smale

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
4. Agriculture in Urban Planning

   Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

   Edited by Mark Redwood

   This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Food, Globalization and Sustainability

   By Peter Oosterveer, David A. Sonnenfeld

   Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Environment, Development, Agriculture

   Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology

   By Bernhard Glaeser

   This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes. Part One deals with theory, including a comprehensive introduction to the field and an...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Food Aid and the Developing World

   Four African Case Studies

   By Christopher Stevens

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance and this book, first published in 1979, seeks to counter allegations from critics by taking account of both direct and indirect affects. Based on field research in Tunisia, Botswana, Upper Volta and Lesotho, it considers aid from the UK,...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
8. Food and Poverty

   The Political Economy of Confrontation

   By Radha Sinha

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of malnutrition in the Third World, which owes much...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Green Revolution Revisited

   Critique and Alternatives

   Edited by Bernhard Glaeser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Developing Countries

    A Study Prepared for the International Labour Office within the Framework of the World Employment Programme

    Edited by Ajit Kumar Ghose

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries. It includes seven detailed case studies – one each on Ethiopia, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran,...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge