Agricultural Economics Products

By Fernando Collantes

What is the balance of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth? Does it illustrate the virtues of the European model of coordinated capitalism, as opposed to U.S.-style liberal capitalism? Or is it an incoherent set of instruments that exert diverse…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge

Edited by Stefano Padulosi, Israel Oliver King, M.S. Swaminathan

This book discusses the issues, challenges, needs and opportunities related to the promotion of orphan crops, known also as neglected and underutilized species (NUS). The book is structured into seven parts, covering the following themes: introduction to NUS, integrated conservation and use of…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
Routledge
Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

By Peter Tracy Dondlinger

First published in 1910, this volume was the result of fifteen years of study in the American Northwest. The author contributed to the burgeoning field of industrial and economic history, providing a practical manual for the entirety of the wheat industry at the time. Whilst smaller studies had…

Paperback – 2020-01-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Sheryl. L. Hendriks

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis. Food insecurity is a major obstacle to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a…

Paperback – 2019-12-26 
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Ashok K. Mishra, Davide Viaggi, Sergio Gomez y Paloma

In recent years, developed countries have formulated public policies in agriculture ranging from supporting rural life and farm income to promoting sustainability of food and fibre production. Public Policy in Agriculture: Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income addresses the lack of empirical…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Lakhwinder Singh, Kesar Singh Bhangoo, Rakesh Sharma

This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed socio-economic overview of agrarian distress in India which has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. Using empirical research and field data from rural India, especially Punjab, this book examines the underlying causes…

Paperback – 2019-10-15
Routledge India

By Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia Ringler, Barbara Schreiner, Shiney Varghese

This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally…

Paperback – 2019-10-03
Routledge
Pathways to Sustainability

Edited by Binoy Goswami, Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah, Raju Mandal

From a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation within the decade of 1968-1978. By contrast, the decade of 1995-2005 witnessed a spate in suicides among farmers in many parts of the country. These tragic incidents were…

Paperback – 2019-09-26
Routledge

Edited by Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to generate a coherent, informed and updated analysis of resistance in agri-food, empirical and theoretical contributions analyze the relationship between…

Paperback – 2019-08-19
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Joseph A. Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches…

Paperback – 2019-08-08
Routledge
Earthscan Food and Agriculture

By Hugh Clout

First published in 1984, Hugh Clout’s work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community. Starting from the Mid-20th century, Clout explains the profound socio-economic and environmental changes that effected the countryside of Western…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Hugh Clout

First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-generated cartography, transforms the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture in the mid…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
Routledge Revivals