Agriculture
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Food Regime Reformulations |
- | Philip McMichael | 25 | 2013 | $2.50 Add |
From Food Secure CanadaWhere Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect |
- | Cathleen Kneen | 17 | 2010 | $2.38 Add |
From NEW! Nigerian Smallholders: Masters of the Environment |
Chapter 5 examines Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s, when governments– advised by Western development specialists– sought to “capture” peasant production and boost export … | Jim Handy | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From State ControlThe Politics of Agrarian Change |
The “Productive Revolution”: A State-Capital Alliance Mechanisms of Social and Economic Exclusion Productive Exclusion and Implications for Agrarian Change The Simple Reproduction … | Ben M. McKay | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
From The Agrarian Question Today |
- | Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
From NEW! Understanding Adaptive CapacityPART 1 |
This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … | Laura Lengnick | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
From VegetablesFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. … | Laura Lengnick | 38 | 2015 | $3.80 Add |
From NEW! Who Wants to Be a Farmer? |
Topics in this chapter explore the future of global agriculture and include: the aspirations of rural youth, rural youth and collective action and what the future holds for smallholder farms. | Ben White | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
From Yields |
- | Jan Douwe van der Ploeg | 36 | 2013 | $3.96 Add |
From NEW! 4. The Inequality Turnaround“Sharing the Dividends” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization, the creation of progressive taxation for … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 5: Grass 2.0PART II: RED EDEN From: Dinner on Mars |
Chapter 5 considers the challenges of growing and producing grains such as corn, rice and wheat on Mars. Discussing the history of grains and their domestications, Icelandic geothermal farming, … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
From CommodificationPart II: A History of Seed Politics in Canada From: Good Crop / Bad Crop |
Chapter 6 explores the commodification of the agricultural industry by seed corporations, GURTS, patents and intellectual property, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds, plant breeders’ … | Devlin Kuyek | 30 | 2007 | $3.00 Add |
From Crisis and Restructuring |
- | Philip McMichael | 22 | 2013 | $2.20 Add |
From Fruits and NutsFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter features case studies of fruit and nut growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. These include using overhead … | Laura Lengnick | 30 | 2015 | $3.00 Add |
From Indigenous Food SovereigntyA Model for Social Learning |
- | Dawn Morrison | 17 | 2010 | $2.38 Add |
From NEW! Kerala: A Return to the Future |
Chapter 6 examines the Indian state of Kerala, a small state in the southwest of the subcontinent that had been the site of ongoing reforms beginning almost immediately after its formation in … | Jim Handy | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |