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Book SynopsisPerfect for readers of James Rebanks, Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshingly new outlook on the way forward for society. A vital resource for activists, students, policy makers and anyone looking to enact change. In a time of UNCERTAINTY, what would a truly RESILIENT SOCIETY look like? The recent pandemic has brought to light the fragility of a globalised food system. We have seen firsthand how important farmers are and how scary it can be when supply chains break down. This is precisely the type of crisis farmer and former social scientist Chris Smaje delves into in his ground-breaking debut A Small Farm Future. Destined to become a modern classic, A Small Farm Future plants a flag at the intersection between economics, agriculture and society during a time of immense crisis. Smaje makes the case for organising human societies around small-scale, local and ecological farming in order to meet the environmental and political challenges of our times.Trade Review‘Food is the core of culture, and modern industrial culture is rotting from the inside out due to its reliance on fossil-fueled agriculture. The only viable future is one based on small, ecologically regenerative, labor-intensive farming. Chris Smaje’s brilliant book presents the rationale, surveys methods and issues, and supplies an abundance of insight derived from the author’s twenty years of experience. Every young person should read this book.’—Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute ‘We are facing an existential crisis – with species extinction, climate catastrophes, desertification of soil, disappearance of water, pandemics of infectious and chronic diseases, hunger and malnutrition. Industrialized, globalized agriculture based on the myth that it feeds the world is driving the multiple, interconnected crisis. Eighty percent of the food we eat comes from small farms. Chris Smaje’s A Small Farm Future shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction.’—Vandana Shiva, author of Oneness vs. the 1% and Who Really Feeds the World? ‘A Small Farm Future is a solid and truly inspiring book. I have dedicated the last 17 years of my life to creating a micro farm, and what I have learned fully confirms what Chris Smaje says: a small, ecologically inspired farm can produce high-quality, local food while also improving soil fertility, storing carbon, conserving water resources and improving biodiversity. Not to mention creating jobs and improving quality of life. A return to Mother Earth is the foundation on which we can build a new paradigm of sustainable and equitable abundance based on biological resources, renewable energies, eco-construction and solidarity – among individuals and cultures, and across generations. Getting out of a virtual and globalized economy to cultivate the land with love and respect is our only hope to pass on a viable planet to our children. This is also the secret to happiness!’—Charles Hervé-Gruyer, author of Miraculous Abundance; co-founder, Bec Hellouin Farm, France‘On one side we have science-based high tech with neoliberal economics, driven by the perceived need to control nature and to maximize material wealth; and on the other are traditional human skills and values. Whether it’s dressed in the trappings of communism or capitalism or autocracy or democracy, the former is undoubtedly winning. Governments and their chosen advisers the world over equate high tech and measurable economic “growth” with progress. ‘But the dominance of what now passes as modernity is killing us all. The methods it gives rise to and the mindset behind it are at the root of all the world’s crises. What we need now above all else is food production based on small farming – albeit assisted by excellent science and sometimes by high tech; feeding into localised economies; and deployed with true concern for the welfare of humanity and our fellow creatures. Chris Smaje, a sociologist-cum-anthropologist turned smallholder, is showing us exactly what is needed and why. A timely and valuable book – and a very readable read.’—Colin Tudge, co-founder, Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture; author of The Great Re-Think‘A Small Farm Future makes plain that the next 30 years will look very different to the last 30. Yet Smaje’s unique integration of big-picture insight and hard-won experience clears the fog, brilliantly revealing reliable and meaningful paths forward, even as the ground shifts beneath our feet.’—Shaun Chamberlin, author of The Transition Timeline; editor of Lean Logic and Surviving the Future‘This book is such a treat. In an era of generalized crisis, Chris Smaje articulates an appealing, beautiful vision of the future. Chris has walked the talk, which makes his plea all the more powerful and convincing.’—Dr. Giorgos Kallis, ICREA research professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)‘Anyone involved in political thought, agriculture, justice, or futurism who is not familiar with Chris Smaje’s writing from his blog should do themselves the favor of picking up this book as soon as possible. Smaje’s writing is pretty much always worth engaging with – whether for the wry humor, the ways he challenges us to think harder and more boldly, his relentless humanism or his ability to marry nuance with accessibility. He is a visionary in the most interesting and exciting meaning of the word. His writing consistently shows him to be an intellectual tour guide par excellence: he may or may not see further than others, but he certainly never fails to help us see what is in front of us better.’—M. Jahi Chappell, executive director, Southeastern African-American Farmers’ Organic Network (SAAFON); author of Beginning to End Hunger‘Chris Smaje brings intellectual rigour to the centuries-old demand for “three acres and a cow”.’—Simon Fairlie, author of Meat: A Benign Extravagance; editor, The Land magazine‘Superb! This book shows with great clarity why we are heading for planetary disaster and suggests ways in which new kinds of more stable social and economic practices might evolve around support for sustainable agriculture. A timely and compelling vision of a New Agrarianism. Highly recommended.’—Paul Richards, author of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution and Ebola; emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development, Wageningen University‘Time to tune in – these are powerful arguments for collective action in agriculture. We know that small farms offer solutions to the crises of our time. Stewardship, guardianship and rebuilding biodiversity is real, meaningful work. If each human engaged meaningfully, every day, in their own subsistence, imagine how much more accountable our society would become. This restoration of our food and ecosystems will take many hands, many years, and much patience and goodwill. This means that those of us already farming will need to become well versed in transmitting the why and the how to those who will join us. The coming radical shifts in ownership, tenure, settlement and structure present an incredible opportunity for sanity, subsistence and self-determination. Onward!’—Severine von Tscharner Fleming, director, Greenhorns; chair, Agrarian Trust‘As a breakdown of the climate, state power and globalized markets pushes us toward an epochal transition, Chris Smaje offers us a hopeful vision of a relocalized, self-sufficient world. With fierce intelligence and rich evidence, he explains the vital role that small farms must play in this emerging future, artfully weaving together neglected strands of economic, ecological, cultural and political thought.’—David Bollier, director, Reinventing the Commons Program, Schumacher Center for a New Economics; coauthor (with Silke Helfrich) of Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for students, teachers, researchers, policy experts, and activists.’ -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies‘The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is a magnificent field-building achievement. Ambitious and comprehensive, it marks the coming of age of critical agrarian studies, with first-rate contributions from foundational thinkers and emerging stars on everything from agroecology and land, to financialization, territoriality, extractivism, migrant labour, and dozens of other topics.’ -- Marc Edelman, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York‘Critical agrarian studies is not a sentimental journey into the past but ways of rethinking how the dynamics of agrarian change reflect and shape some of the most important issues of our time. In these creative and thoughtful short chapters, leading scholars provide new angles on familiar questions such as land ownership, the ways we eat, agrarian extractivism, ecological crisis and rural social movements and on many new issues as well. Authors also lead readers through current debates and introduce them to the particular methodological problems of agrarian studies.’ -- Bridget O’Laughlin, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Co-Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change'The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is an excellent and solid work that takes us through the foundational and current debates of this research field, its main concepts and methodological approaches, the intersection of the agrarian question with environmental, territorial, techno-science and financialization issues, among other topics. An essential reference book.’ -- Carla Gras, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina‘This Handbook will surely become the point of departure for anyone planning research on agrarian issues from a critical perspective. The 72 contributions – most by well-regarded experts in the field—provide both succinct literature reviews and substantive insight on a broad range of relevant topics. Some of the chapters, such as on The Agrarian Question, Land Grabs, and Feasible Utopias are superb. Whether for clarification of key concepts or to grasp the contours of current debates, the Handbook will be useful to students, researchers, those teaching in the field, as well as policy advocates and activists.’ -- Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxiii Tania Murray Li Acknowledgements xxv 1 An introduction to the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies 1 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay PART I ORIGINS 2 Frontiers, regimes and learning from history 9 Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute 3 Origins of peasant studies 15 Harriet Friedmann 4 The diversity of classical agrarian Marxism 25 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay 5 Debates on the historical origins of agrarian capitalism 34 Xavier Lafrance 6 An alternative perspective on the agrarian question in Europe and in the developing countries 45 Utsa Patnaik PART II CONCEPTS 7 The agrarian question 53 Michael Watts 8 Class 67 Sara Berry 9 Land 72 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 10 Frontiers: Commodification and territorialization 80 Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Christian Lund 11 Labour 91 Jonathan Pattenden 12 Labor and social reproduction 99 Smriti Rao 13 Peasants 109 Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 14 Gender 120 Avanti Mukherjee 15 Gender, nature, body 131 Andrea J. Nightingale and Wendy Harcourt 16 Kinship 139 Pauline E. Peters 17 Generation 150 Ben White 18 Intersectionality 157 Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Markus Ihalainen and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett 19 Merchant and usurer’s capital 165 John Harriss 20 Agricultural markets 171 Muhammad Ali Jan and Barbara Harriss-White 21 Financialization 178 Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson 22 Agrarian law 187 Sergio Coronado 23 Territoriality 197 Annie Shattuck and Nancy Lee Peluso 24 Agrarian/land reform 205 Ben Cousins 25 Food regimes 218 Philip McMichael 26 Crisis 232 Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 27 Food sovereignty, food security and the right to food 238 Priscilla Claeys, Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jasber Singh PART III METHODOLOGIES 28 Qualitative research 251 Elisa Greco 29 Quantitative analysis 258 J. Paul Dunne 30 Geographical research 266 Oliver Pye 31 Questions and answers 272 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 32 The agrarian question in Africa: Past, present and future 279 Samir Amin 33 Social movements in times of extractivism: The ecoterritorial turn in Latin America 285 Maristella Svampa 34 Agrarian change in China: Historical origins and competing perspectives 296 Qian Forrest Zhang 35 Beyond confrontation: Silent growers, symbiosis and subtle peasantness in post-socialist Eurasia 305 Oane Visser, Brian Kuns and Petr Jehlička 36 BRICS and global agrarian transformations 316 Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira and Ben M. McKay 37 Neoliberalism and the crisis in India’s countryside 324 Prabhat Patnaik 38 Crises of capitalism in the countryside: Debates from the South 334 Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros PART V DEBATES 39 Land grabs 346 Ariane Goetz 40 Water for agriculture 357 Larry A. Swatuk 41 Biofuels 366 Carol Hunsberger 42 Industrial fisheries and oceanic accumulation 374 Elizabeth Havice and Liam Campling 43 Forests and current transitions 387 Markus Kröger 44 Artisanal and small-scale mining 401 Boris Verbrugge and Robin Thiers 45 Footloose labour 410 John Harriss 46 Contract farming 416 Helena Pérez Niño and Carlos Oya 47 Biotechnology 427 Matthew A. Schnurr and Lincoln Addison 48 Agroecology 438 Nils McCune and Peter Rosset 49 Identities and culture in the rural world 453 Nicholas Copeland 50 Everyday politics in agrarian societies 463 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet 51 The state and rural politics 469 Leandro Vergara-Camus 52 Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping 480 Facundo Martín 53 Rural social movements/transnational agrarian movements 491 Giuliano Martiniello 54 Industrial agriculture and agrarian extractivism 503 Ben M. McKay and Henry Veltmeyer 55 Rural dispossession and capital accumulation 515 Derek Hall 56 Ecological crises in the rural world 525 Marcus Taylor 57 Microfinance and rural financial inclusion 536 Marcus Taylor 58 Rural indebtedness 547 Julien-François Gerber 59 The neoliberal diet 556 Gerardo Otero 60 Meatification 561 Tony Weis 61 Digital agriculture 568 Kristina Dietz and Franza Drechsel 62 COVID-19 581 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART VI TRAJECTORIES 63 The interface of critical development studies and critical agrarian studies 594 Henry Veltmeyer 64 Political ecology 601 Kristina Dietz 65 Pluriloguing postcolonial studies and critical agrarian studies 610 Johanna Leinius 66 Agrarian justice: Land, human rights and democratization 620 Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez 67 Strategic linkages between STS and critical agrarian studies 630 Ryan Nehring 68 The Capitalocene response to the Anthropocene 636 Kees Jansen and Joost Jongerden 69 Degrowth in agrarian and fisheries studies 647 Arnim Scheidel, Irmak Ertör and Federico Demaria 70 Reconfiguring the intersection between urban food movements and agrarian struggles: Building an urban political agroecology praxis 656 Chiara Tornaghi and Severin Halder 71 Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside 666 Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels 72 Feasible utopias 676 Ray Bush Index 689

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Book SynopsisThe history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, whose mineral-rich land supplied budding consumer demand in the United States. Steven Press makes clear that mass luxury has always come at a huge price.Trade Review[A] deeply researched, often horrifying…study of the country’s entanglement in the diamond trade. -- Joshua Hammer * New York Review of Books *An excellent history…Looks at the story through the prism of diamonds…His careful economic history makes clear the importance of diamonds to the survival of the colony and to Germany’s economic reach at the time. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *Through the rigor, subtlety, and elegance of his work, Press has produced one of the most thought-provoking recent books in this field. -- Jean-Michel Johnston * H-Diplo *Steven Press has written a disturbing, brilliant book. Courageous and deeply researched, Blood and Diamonds brings out the full measure of transnational intrigue, cutthroat capitalist competition, and sheer callousness at the center of this long-hidden, disheartening human catastrophe. A stunning new history. -- Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000Empirically rich and elegantly written, Blood and Diamonds will be received as an important landmark in the history of German colonialism and more broadly as an examination of the entanglements between colony and metropole. Press aptly combines meticulous scholarship with remarkable narrative talent. -- Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, BerlinSteven Press’s history of conflict diamonds from Namibia under German rule shows German colonialism in a new light and in a broader context, extending into the Nazi era and beyond. Diamonds were a colonial fantasy with all-too-real consequences of premature death for African workers and of Germans’ renewed anti-Semitism and willingness for war. Fluently written, provocative, and hugely informative. -- Lora Wildenthal, author of German Women for Empire, 1884–1945Absorbing…Press masterfully interweaves the history of diamonds and empire with international economics and consumption, racism and genocidal violence, and the complexities of metropole-colony relations…An insightful, fascinating, and important book. * Choice *Press shows that the diamond wealth flowing from German Southwest Africa was crucial to both the development of German colonialism in Africa and Germany’s broader global engagement. -- Stephen Morgan * African Studies Review *An engaging examination into an important aspect of German colonialism in the pre-WWI period. -- Brian de Ruiter * International Social Science Review *

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Book SynopsisThere has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers. Does financial speculation affect food price volatility? This book address this and other questions.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Relationships can be notoriously complicated, and our ancient bond with wheat is no exception. As Zabinski recounts in Amber Waves, it’s been a rocky path over the millennia, replete with heartbreak, endless drama, and even an unlikely love affair. If it hadn’t been for a capricious interloper named goatgrass mixing into wheat’s gene pool half a million years ago, our daily staple of bread—not to mention birthday cakes, mac and cheese, and pepperoni pizza—might never have existed. . . . Amber Waves nimbly segues into a socio-agro primer, providing a crash course in genetics, plant breeding, and agronomy. The author . . . also provides a fascinating retrospective on some of our lesser-known food innovators. . . . Engaging. . . . Zabinksi is a reliably optimistic guide, pointing us toward a hopeful food future. ‘As a species,’ she observes, ‘we have a stunning capacity for creativity and problem solving. Imagine if we focused all that capacity on optimizing agricultural production in the most environmentally sustainable way.’ It’s a towering opportunity for such a tiny, humble seed—but one that seems tantalizingly close to being within our grasp." * Wall Street Journal *"Wheat is a staple in the diets of cultures across the globe. But when and how did the first societies decide to consume grass seeds? Plant and soil ecologist Zabinski takes the discussion beyond history and anthropology to talk about the science of agriculture and the development of wheat production throughout the modern world. The more practical aspects of the crop are also discussed, such as why grass seeds are easier to store than other early cultivated grains. While the account focuses on wheat’s history, there is a section that concentrates on the stress of the crop for a growing population. An abundance of endnotes and references indicate an extensively researched text, while the chronological narrative reads like a biography starting with ancient people and cultivation through the modern practices of manipulating food DNA. . . . This work will appeal to lay scientists, anthropologists, and consumers who wish to know more about the science behind this common dietary staple." * Library Journal *"A pleasant . . . account of the long history of humans and wheat. . . . Zabinski notes how agricultural practices have driven social and political organization, and speculates that wheat cultivation led to militarization, as armies were used to keep laborers in the fields and to protect farmers from outside raiders. In elaborating on the interconnections between wheat production and culture, she shares some worthwhile historical tidbits, such as how the need to grow wheat across North America’s ‘wide temperature and precipitation gradients’ gave rise, in the nineteenth century, to breeding as a modern science, or how Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was motivated by his desire for Ukraine’s fertile soils." * Publishers Weekly *“Deftly surveys both the biological and the social perspective in nine concise chapters, starting in deep time, with a quick summary of the evolution of plants, then moving swiftly through the first agricultural societies, the growth of city-states, the great empires of the classical and medieval world, and on into the modern era. Wheat is a silent but salient character, providing the energy needed to maintain growing concentrations of population, shaping systems of social organization needed to manage production and distribute food, and driving innovations in agriculture, such as crop rotation, irrigation, and the moldboard plow of the Middle Ages. . . . It’s clearly an open-ended story, not just a tale of how humans have used a nutritious plant, writes Zabinski, but ‘how that plant used us to take over the world.’” -- Laurence A. Marschall * Natural History *"The human relationship with wheat is the subject of Zabinski’s short book Amber Waves, which presents itself as a ‘biography’ of the grain. . . . Zabinski, a plant and soil ecologist at Montana State University, seeks to tell ‘a story of a group of grasses whose existence became complicated by its convergence with our own species and our never-ending need for more food’. The vast consumption of wheat today is linked to the fact that it is the main ingredient in so many convenience foods. If you want to satisfy hunger quickly and cheaply, the odds are that you will turn to a wheat-based food (unless you opt for potatoes, in the form of crisps or chips). You might buy a healthy wrap or an unhealthy burger or a pie or a sandwich or a slice of pizza or a tub of instant ramen or a samosa or a slice of toast or a bowl of bran flakes. Whichever choice you make, you will end up eating the same industrial wheat. No other grain comes in such a vast range of ready-to-eat foods. Yet it must have taken great perseverance and ingenuity for our Neolithic ancestors to add wheat to their diets." -- Bee Wilson * London Review of Books *"In this high-fiber read, plant ecologist Zabinski follows the evolution of wheat, from its wild origins to its highly modified existence as a staple of modern agriculture." * LitHub *"Zabinski has produced a tour de force with Amber Waves. From her work as a soil and plant ecologist at Montana State University she pulls together the fascinating biological and social history of wheat. It is a story of human ingenuity across thousands of years." -- Jenny Willan * Resurgence and Ecologist *"Wheat was among the first grains to be cultivated and it is now one of the most important staple crops in the world. In Amber Waves, Zabinski . . . tells the story of wheat from its origin, domestication, and genetic improvement, and the history of its production, processing, and trade. Moreover, Zabinski proposes that the biography of wheat is not simply the story of a crop—it is a thread in the history of humans seeking food security. . . . This story about the complex relationship between humans and crops should appeal to plant scientists in particular, and indeed the general public." * Nature Food *"For a sustainability-conscious readership, Zabinski looks at how wheat both enabled the food security necessary for civilization and created new ecological problems." * Publishers Weekly, "Spring 2020 Announcements: Science Top 10" *"Zabinski explores the history of wheat and society, and argues we must focus on optimizing agriculture in environmentally sustainable ways." * Climate & Capitalism *"Skillfully done. . . . I urge you to read Amber Waves by Zabinski, which is an excellent example of plants-and-people writing—and is also pretty good SciComm . . . " * Botany One *"The story of wheat is inextricably linked with that of humans. Zabinski’s Amber Waves tells both. In fact, the author suggests this might be the tale of how wheat used humans to take over the world. . . . Zabinski’s warm, down-to-earth style and whimsical analogies are so engaging that readers might not notice how much archaeology, soil chemistry, and molecular genetics they are absorbing. Biology students who found photosynthesis boring didn’t have Zabinski as their instructor. . . . She tosses delicious tidbits into her literary soup, such as origin stories for Turkey Red and Red Fife, formerly the dominant types of wheat grown in the United States and Canada, respectively. . . . Amber Waves would make a good text for an introductory agriculture course—and for anyone who wants to understand how today’s food is grown. Zabinski does not rail against current agricultural systems; nor does she give checklists of actions for readers to follow to become better food citizens. Instead, she starts at the beginnings of agriculture to explain why contemporary wheat has turned out the way it has, why humans now grow it as they do, and why these methods might not work so well in the future. She suggests that readers listen to the story carried in the whisper of the wheat stalks and think hard about how to make food systems more sustainable and equitable." * Issues in Science and Technology *“In a friendly and accessible style, Amber Waves rather cleverly integrates material about plant evolution and physiological processes into a narrative of the development of wheat, concentrating heavily on the early stages of the process of plant domestication, with asides into evolution, genetics, plant nutrition, gluten-related health issues, and the role of wheat in history and power politics. A balanced discussion of the Green Revolution and the future possibilities of wheat breeding bring the story up to date for anyone who wishes to learn more about the history of farming and about plants.” -- Noel Kingsbury, author of "Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding" and "Garden Flora: The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden"“Zabinski not only offers a biography of the multiple species known as ‘wheat’ but presents their story in the context of the rise of civilization itself.” -- Norman C. Ellstrand, author of "Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food" and "Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives""This book is recommended to everyone who wants to discover that wheat is much more than just the basis of regular bread." * Economic Botany *"In Amber Waves, Zabinski explores how wheat has claimed this preeminent place in farmers’ fields and in our diets. A professor of plant and soil ecology, Zabinski’s gift as a science communicator shines throughout the book. Her story goes well beyond photosynthesis, plant physiology, and genetics, as she uses insights from archeology, anthropology, and politics to unravel the long, intertwining history of wheat and the human societies that have gathered, planted, harvested, and eaten wheat seeds for millennia. . . . This book makes a fine contribution to food history. Suitable for a wide audience, it shows the promise of weaving together the natural and social sciences to engage with the full complexity of humanity’s relationship to food." * Gastronomica *"Zabinski’s book is very readable, reliable, and well-substantiated in scientific and historical terms. The author succeeds in presenting the ecological, political, social, and cultural conditions that have made wheat such an important staple food." * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (translated from German) *Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Biography of Wheat? Chapter One. The Whispering of the Grasses Chapter Two. The First Encounter Chapter Three. Intertwined Lives Chapter Four. From Villages to Cities Chapter Five. Relationships Are Hard Work Chapter Six. Nurture and Nature Chapter Seven. War and Peace and Wheat Chapter Eight. Order in Chaos Chapter Nine. A Love-Hate Relationship Epilogue. An Eternal Harvest Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children''s favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world''s cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass ''ultra-processed'' substances alongside food as varied and good as anywhere else on the planet.This book takes stock of the UK food system: where it comes from, what we eat, its impact, fragilities and strengths. It is a book on the politics of food. It argues that the Brexit vote will force us to review our food system. Such an opportunity is sorely needed. After a brief frenzy of concern following the financial shock of 2008, the UK government has slumped once more into a vague hope that the food system will keep going on as before. Food, they said, jTrade ReviewPresent discontents lend urgency to Lang's core message ... Security matters, and that includes food security. Lang has performed a public service. -- Simon Jenkins * Sunday Times *Forceful, illuminating, an ambitious manifesto ... The advent of coronavirus has added timeliness to Lang's warning about the fragility of our food supply. -- Martin Bentham * Evening Standard *When Lang says that "although not officially at war, the UK is, de facto, facing a wartime scale of food challenge", it's worth paying attention. We are in serious trouble ... It's a simple message, but in the white heat of a crisis, defined by queues outside supermarkets, a useful one. -- Jay Rayner * The Observer *Lang practically invented food ethics in this country ... Feeding Britain tells us how we could build a better food system, and shows that it is possible. -- Sophie Morris * The Independent *Feeding Britain is distinguished by the clarity and care with which it lays out urgent issues, most centrally that Britain does not produce enough food to feed itself. -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times *It is dense with statistics for journalists and academics to harvest and will, I suspect, become the go-to book for anyone interested in what is now going to be a hot political issue. -- Jamie Blackett * Daily Telegraph *For years, food policy expert Tim Lang has been an almost lone voice in the wilderness, arguing that UK food security needs to be improved. In his new, very timely book, Lang notes that most consumers think that "as long as there is food on the supermarket shelves, all is well in the world. It is not". -- Bee Wilson * The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced itTrade Review“How did such a valuable crop thrive on land so poor? Why did the earth melt from under the fortunes of planters? Drew Swanson gives answers in a history of bright leaf that is also about the fate of a southern region, a plant and its environment, and the rise of the cigarette.”—Steven Stoll, author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century America -- Steven Stoll“This book is a history of tobacco agriculture that will add to recent scholarship on the environmental history of staple crop plantations in the U.S. South; it is a significant contribution to this effort to re-write the agricultural history of the South in environmental terms.”—Mart A. Stewart, author of “What Nature Suffers to Groe” -- Mart A. Stewart“A Golden Weed is agrarian history at its best. Avoiding convenient stereotypes, Swanson vividly demonstrates how bright-leaf tobacco farmers transformed the social relations and soils of the Piedmont South.”—Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College -- Edward D. Melillo“Swanson’s finely grained appraisal of bright tobacco culture revises familiar accounts of commodity-crop agriculture, weaving a compelling narrative of economics, race relations, and the land in the Virginia-North Carolina Southside.”—Sara M. Gregg, author of Managing the Mountains -- Sara M. Gregg“With his sure grasp of cultivation and deep insight into the social and ecological realities of growing bright-leaf tobacco, Swanson depicts a region degraded and impoverished not from simple ignorance or greed, but from a tragic inability to overcome economic and racial obstacles.”—Brian Donahue, co-editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land and author of The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord -- Brian DonahueWon the Ohio Academy of History, for the junior faculty, 2015 Publication Award which is given “to an active member of the Academy” for an “outstanding publication in the field of history issued in the year preceding the annual meeting.” -- Publication Award * Ohio Academy of History *Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award from the Agricultural History Society for the year's best book on agricultural hisotry -- Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award * Agricultural History Society *“…Drew Swanson’s A Golden Weed is [a] well-researched study of tobacco in the Old Bright Belt…Swanson examines tobacco’s environmental history and deep-rooted connections to the region’s culture.”—Dale Coats, NCHR -- Dale Coats * NCHR *"A Golden Weed is thus both a cultural and an environmental history; Swanson is interested in ideas about land but also in the ways that the natural environment..."—Megan Kate Nelson, The Journal of American History -- Megan Kate Nelson * Journal of American History *“Swanson excels in delivering what his title promised: a rigorous exploration of why generations of farmer’s sacrificed the integrity of the landscape they loved to grow soil-depleting tobacco. His persuasive arguments about this key issue now make it essential for future historians of southern agriculture”—Adrienne Monteith Petty, American Historical Review -- Adrienne Monteith Petty * American Historical Review *Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015, in the botany category. -- Outstanding Academic Title * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published inTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*1. Introduction, pg. 1*2. Ludhiana, Punjab, pg. 12*3. West Godavary, Andhra Pradesh, pg. 47*4. Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, pg. 81*5. Palghat, Kerala, pg. 119*6. Burdwan, West Bengal, pg. 157*7. Conclusion, pg. 191*Glossary, pg. 219*Appendix A: Currency, Weights, and Measures, pg. 227*Index, pg. 229

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Book SynopsisNow in its fifth edition, this book reviews and adapts microeconomic principles to the characteristics of agricultural commodity markets and then apply these principles to the various dimensions of price behavior.Trade ReviewThe book is aimed at an intermediate level course in agricultural prices and marketing. This is one of the best books in agricultural prices available at this level. * American Journal of Agricultural Economics *As a comprehensive reference on agricultural price behaviour at an intermediate level, the book is a worthwhile resource. It is well written and clearly considers and clarifies the principles required to understand the operation of open-agricultural product markets. I recommend this book to students and practitioners alike. -- Stuart Mounter * Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics *In its introduction, the book promises to provide an understanding of the complex arrays of forces that determine the level and behavior of prices and to assist students in bridging theories and empirical analysis on price behavior. It can undoubtedly be said that both promises have been realized in the book...The book's intuitive approach to explaining economic concepts makes it appealing for a wider audience in addition to graduate and undergraduate students. In light of the rise in the volatility of global food and agricultural products since 2007/2008, non-economists wishing to understand the basic mechanics of food price behavior could be interested in reading the book. -- Tsion Taye Assefa * European Review of Agricultural Economics *Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I. Principles of Price Determination2. Demand for Agricultural Products3. Demand Elasticities and Related Coefficients4. Supply Relationships in Agriculture5. Price Determination: Theory and PracticePart II. Price Differences and Variability6. Marketing Margins7. Price Differences Associated with Quality8. Spatial Price Relationships9. Price Variation through Time10. General Farm–Non-farm Price RelationshipsPart III. Pricing Institutions11. Mechanisms for Discovering Prices12. Price Relationships on Commodity Futures Markets13. Functions of Commodity Futures Markets14. Background for Price Analysis15. Using and Evaluating Results16. Applications

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Book SynopsisHungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery storethe epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community. Table of Contents"Food System" DefinedPrefaceNote from the Author: Big FoodIntroduction[1] Rise of the Grocery Giants A&P — The First of the Giants Other Giants Emerge Self-Service Regulating the Rise of Big Business Expanding the War on Chain Grocers Enter the Supermarket [2] Retailer Market Power Taming the Chains The Giants Break Loose The Accelerating of Supermarket Dominance Regulating Market Power Today The Generational Effect and Self-Reinforcing Apathy[3] Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food The Farm Crisis of the 1980s The "Farm Share" and "Marketing Share" of Our Food Dollars Squeezing Food Dollars Through Bottlenecks Farm Value vs. Retail Price Eaters Pay the Price for Concentrated Markets Mergers Decrease Prices Paid to Farmers The Most Extreme Expression of the Farm Income Crisis[4] Grocery Stores — The Food System's Control Center Shaping Food — Literally Losses in Flavor Cosmetic Requirements and Food Safety Genetic Diversity Food Standards as Buyer Leverage Standards and Food Waste Marching Orders for Suppliers Suppliers Finance Their Own Servitude Category Management Pay to Play, Pay to Stay Is It Bribery? Private Labels (Deliberately Anonymous) Barriers to Entry Setting Food Policy Eaters at the ControlsINTERLUDEWelcome to What's Possible, North America Welcome to Resisterville (Nelson, British Columbia) Grocery Giants in Nelson The Regional Food Movement Viroqua, Wisconsin[5] Enter the Co-op What Is a Co-op? Mission-Driven and Transparent Resilience History of the Cooperative Movement The First Consumer Co-ops in Canada and the United States The Empowered Consumer [6] The Food Co-op Waves The Consumer Wave The New Wave The New Wave Grows Up The Newest Wave Beyond Natural Foods — Co-ops for Low-Income Communities[7] Consumer Food Co-ops Today There's Nothing Cookie-Cutter About Food Co-ops Food Co-ops as Community Centers Education Kitchen Skills Training Children's Programming Co-ops in Schools Food Access Inexpensive Meals for Community Building Community Giving Nonprofit Arms Positive Workplace Working Members Cooperation with Local Businesses The Co-op Footprint Community-Owned Good Food Media College Town Co-ops Governance and Ownership Profiles of Board Directors at Food Co-ops Engaging Members in Their Co-op Diversity Social Cohesion Activism On Prices Unleashing Potential[8] Co-ops as Food Desert Remediation Greensboro, North Carolina Cincinnati, Ohio Other Stories of "What's Possible" Starting a Co-op Isn't a Shoo-In for Success[9] Food Co-ops and the Local Economy Easier Access to Eaters True Local The Language of "Economic Development" Food Co-ops as Economic Development Local Food System Stimulation Anchors for Main Street Retention and Rearing of Community Leaders A Different Kind of Profit[10] Local Foodmakers — The People Behind the Products Co-ops as Small Business Incubators The People Behind the Products Where Does Your Food Dollar Go? Planning the Co-op Shelves with Local Producers[11] Threats to Food Co-ops Fierce Competition The Co-opting of "Local" The "Whole Foods Effect" The Demise of Co-op Atlantic Closed Relevance Ideology Institutional Isomorphism Member Engagement[12] Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement Start-ups Financing Food Co-ops Co-ops Supporting Co-opsEpilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Acknowledgments Grocery Story's Supporters Endnotes Index About the Author A Note about the Publisher

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Food security is often talked about but very little understood. Kerr clearly explains its characteristics and its importance as a policy issue. He delves deeply and succinctly into the economics of food security and touches on the politics to good effect, By reading this book those interested in the topic will gain an in-depth understanding of the subject’s complexities as well as having a great many simplistic views and myths exposed.’ -- Nick Perdikis, Aberystwyth University, UK‘Engaging, thought provoking and well written. Kerr’s focus on food availability, income sufficiency and productivity provides a holistic view of a critical issue affecting the well-being, and lives, of two billion people across the world. Bringing together insights from many decades of experience, this book is a comprehensive resource for anyone concerned about food security.’ -- Siân Mooney, Indiana University, US‘Food security is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Without adequate and secure nutrition, none of the other goals are attainable. This book advances our understanding of the challenges and opportunities, comprehensively unpacking the causes of food insecurity and exploring the feasible pathways to sustainability.’ -- Peter WB Phillips, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The three pillars of food security – availability, adequate income and increasing productivity PART I AVAILABILITY 2. Famine – failed food security 3. Hardship – the toll of rising prices 4. Local – the myth of self-sufficiency 5. Trade – its central role in availability 6. Food aid – the last resort 7. Man-made crises – war, conflict and food as a weapon PART II ADEQUATE INCOME 8. Poverty policy – food policy versus incomes policy 9. Price policies – the perils of keeping food prices low 10. Food entitlements – stamps and other targeted policies 11. Food deserts – food poverty amongst plenty 12. Food banks – the limits of food charity 13. Directly raising incomes – does reducing poverty lead to food security? PART III INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY 14. The race against time – escaping the Malthusian trap 15. Climate change – the changing geography of food security 16. Science for tomorrow – the long lags in productivity enhancement 17. Can we bet on ‘big science’? – science is only a necessary condition 18. Social science and increasing productivity – lessons from the Green Revolution 19. Financing investments in productivity – the need for a mixed strategy PART IV WILL THERE BE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY IN 2050? 20. The challenge of 2050 – will the nine billion all be seated with food in front of them? Index

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Book SynopsisAgricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations. Taking a practical approach, it covers all the relevant techniques and legislation necessary to correctly value farms, assess farm rents, carry out arbitrations, inventories and records of condition, including valuation clauses on sales of farms, livestock, soils, management agreements, valuation in court proceedings and a glossary of useful information.In this fifth edition, Gwyn Williams''s original text is taken on by Jeremy Moody and Nick Millard, renowned experts in the field, bringing the book right up to date to reflect recent changes in the rural economy, including development, diversification and renewable energy and specialist valuations and reference to all the latest legislation. Clear and accessible to students and professionals alike, readers will find Agricultural Valuations an invaluable guide to best praTable of Contents1. Introduction and history PART 1: FOUNDATIONS 2. Agricultural land 3. Basic property law 4. Business structures for farming 5. Agricultural support: from the EU to beyond Brexit 6. Farm accounting PART 2: VALUATIONS 7. Professional issues 8. Introduction to valuation standards and beyond bases of value 9. Undertaking a valuation 10. Valuation of farm property with vacant possession 11. Valuation of let property 12. Valuation for insurance 13. Woodland and sporting 14. Diversification 15. Development 16. Livestock, machinery, growing crops and produce 17. Environmental valuation PART 3: VALUATIONS FOR TAXATION, COMPULSORY PURCHASE, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS 18. Valuation for capital taxes 19. Agricultural stocktaking for income tax 20. Valuation for business rates and council tax 21. Compensation for compulsory purchase 22. Cables and pipes for electricity, gas, water and sewerage 23. Masts and cables for communications PART 4: AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES 24. Introduction to agricultural tenancies 25. Issues during a tenancy requiring valuation 26. Rent reviews under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 27. Rent reviews for farm business tenancies 28. Rent reviews for Scottish agricultural tenancies 29. End of tenancy: tenant’s claims 30. Compensation for disturbance 31. End of tenancy: landlord’s claims 32. Valuing the tenancy 33. Valuations for other agreements PART 5: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 34. Farm agency 35. Dispute resolution and expert witness work 36. New skills and services 37. Advice to young practitioners APPENDICES

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Book SynopsisAfter the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors' rising interest in farmland in developing nations. This ''land rush'' was a marker of increased land commodification and agricultural financialization, but has also been associated with global narratives of agricultural modernization, and development through FDI of ''cheap, unproductive and/or idle'' farmland.Yet, as this book demonstrates, global investment dynamics are dictated by complex economic, political, socio-historical dynamics in any host country. Focusing on the land rush in Tanzania, the contexts of six investment projects in the nation are examined and unpacked, helping to understand the ways in which political struggles over land, capital and authority all feed into determining the goals - and eventually the outcomes - of the ''farmland investment game''.Trade ReviewThis book arguably presents the most compelling understanding of farmland investments in the most remote, less studied, and fertile lands of Tanzania. Its first theoretical and methodological chapters are of great use to researchers and students in many fields. A must-read book for political economy students and practitioners alike. * Emmanuel Sulle, University of the Western Cape, South Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Case selection and research method Chapter 3. In brief, the legacies of historical land management in Tanzania and the potency of factional struggles within the CCM Chapter 4. The national political arena Chapter 5. Rufiji district, a local political arena Chapter 6. Missenyi district, a local political arena Chapter 7. Village politics, or a micro political arena Chapter 8. Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisThe work features an edition of the reaper inscription, and a commentary on it. It is also lavishly illustrated to demonstrate the important iconic and pictorial dimensions of the story.Trade Review'The volume is incredibly rich in content with almost one hundred illustrations in black and white, more than a thousand endnotes, and thirty-five pages of bibliography... Shaw's book advances our understanding of agricultural society and is an important contribution to the study of late antiquity.' -- Jesper Carlsen The Historian vol 77:01:2015 'How wonderful to read a book written by a true scholar, which brims with humor, critique, insight, and expansiveness... Highly recommended.' -- S. Hammer Choice Magazine vol 51:01:2013 'Fascinating study of harvest and harvesting in the Roman world...Not only is this the most wide-ranging study of the harvest in antiquity that I am aware of, it should be read by all who are interested in the link between life and thought in the Roman world.' -- Paul Erdkamp American Historical Review, vol 119:02:2014Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface/Introduction 1. Under the Burning Sun 2. Primus in Arvis / First in the Fields 3. Sickle & Scythe / Man & Machine 4. The Grim Reapers 5. Blade of Vengeance Appendix 1: Harvesting Contracts from Roman Egypt and Italy Appendix 2: The Maktar Harvester Inscription: Text and Commentary Appendix 3: The Gallo-Roman Reaping Machines: Iconographic Data Map 1.1: Africa of the Maktar Harvester Map 2.1: Roman Mactaris (Maktar) and Region Map 3.1: Northern Gaul: Heartland of the Reaping Machine Map 3.2: Distribution of Sickle and Scythe Finds in Late Prehistoric and Roman Gaul Table 1.1: Survey of Modern/Post World War II Land Use Patterns in the Maghrib Table 1.2: Pre-World War II Cereal Grain Production in the Maghrib Table 1.3: Survey of Modern/Post World War II Cereal Grain Production in the Maghrib Table 1.4: Pre World War I Indigenous Cereal Grain Production in Algeria Abbreviations of Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSão Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, once a frontier province of little importance, become one of the most vital agricultural and industrial regions of the world? This volume explores the transformation of São Paulo through an economic lens. Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein provide a synthetic overview of the growth of São Paulo from 1850 to 1950, analyzing statistical data on demographics, agriculture, finance, trade, and infrastructure. Quantitative analysis of primary sources, including almanacs, censuses, newspapers, state and ministerial-level government documents, and annual government reports offers granular insight into state building, federalism, the coffee economy, early industrialization, urbanization, and demographic shifts. Luna and Klein compare São Paulo's transformation to other regions from the same period, making this an essential reference for understanding the impact of early periods of economic growth.Trade Review"A major undertaking by two eminent scholars on one of the most important regions in Latin America. Weaving together rich scholarship, original research, and extensive historical data, Luna and Klein offer a sorely-needed synthesis of the facets that contributed to São Paulo's evolution from modest agricultural province into Brazil's economic leader. This accessible volume offers an excellent case for comparative research on the developing world and areas of recent settlement, and will be welcomed by historians of Brazil and Latin America."—Anne Hanley, Northern Illinois University"An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950is animportant accomplishment and a welcome addition to the literature on the history of São Paulo. Besides a comprehensive survey of the factors behind São Paulo's impressive growth, the book is also a successful attempt at historical and historiographical synthesis, one that covers many decades of literature and establishes a serious dialogue with Brazilian historiography and social science literature."—Paula Vedoveli, H-LatAmTable of Contents1. São Paulo Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century 2. Government and Public Finance in the Empire, 1850-1889 3. Government and Public Finance in the Old Republic, 1889-1930 4. Paulista Agriculture, 1899-1950 5. Crisis of the State and the Loss of Hegemony of the Paulista Elite 6. The State in National and International Commerce 7. Industrial Growth in São Paulo 8. Infrastructure and Urbanization of the State 9. Population Growth and Structure Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides funding for a wide array of Federal programs, mostly in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These programs include agricultural research, education, and extension activities; natural resources conservation programs; farm income and support programs; marketing and inspection activities; domestic food assistance programs; rural housing, economic and community development, and telecommunication and electrification assistance; and various export and international activities of the USDA. Agriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bills development. This book provides information on the 2018 and 2019 discretionary spending as well as a copy of the 2019 Agriculture appropriations act.

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Book SynopsisIt’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation is equally imperiled. And there’s another, even more dire limitation that is looming: at current rates of erosion, the world’s topsoil will be gone in sixty years. Fresh water sources are in jeopardy, too. In short, the large-scale agricultural and food delivery system as we know it has at most a few decades before it exhausts itself and the planet with it. Farming for the Long Haul is about building a viable small farm economy that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends. It draws on the innovative work of contemporary farmers, but more than that, it shares the experiences of farming societies around the world that have maintained resilient agricultural systems over centuries of often-turbulent change. Indigenous agriculturalists, peasants, and traditional farmers have all created broad strategies for survival through good times and bad, and many of them prospered. They also developed particular techniques for managing soil, water, and other resources sustainably. Some of these techniques have been taken up by organic agriculture and permaculture, but many more of them are virtually unknown, even among alternative farmers. This book lays out some of these strategies and presents techniques and tools that might prove most useful to farmers today and in the uncertain future.Trade ReviewForeword Reviews— “A valuable historical and societal perspective on farming in the United States and internationally. Foley’s observations are insightful and at times startling….In some respects, this book paints a bleak picture of farming’s future. Climate change and the degradation of soil have hampered food productivity, the costs of farming are rising, and small farmers are being 'forced to occupy marginal lands.’ Foley believes nothing less than 'a profound reversal of course' will be necessary for farming to survive long- term. Still, the book is grounded in cautious optimism—based primarily on local farmers helping themselves. Food hubs controlled by farmers, urban farming, and grassroots organizations run by farmers are hopeful evidence. Foley concludes his excellent book with the belief that traditional agriculture 'is here to stay,' and that 'it will sustain humanity, provided we take its many lessons to heart.' One can only hope the prediction is accurate."“Michael Foley’s passion and his lifetime of research and lived experience comes through in this primer of agricultural history and personal philosophy that is sure to prompt an important dialogue about the future of agriculture and the political economy. Agriculture is a shared expression of who we are, and I believe we need more people thinking deeply, questioning, and sharing their insights. This book provides many tools and references to ask informed questions and encourage a richer discussion about progress.”—Dorn Cox, farmer; founding member of Farm Hack“Globally, humanity urgently needs to transform the way we make our livelihoods if we’re to thrive into the future. In Farming for the Long Haul, Michael Foley shows that food and farming are at the heart of this, and he gives us some fine tools for rethinking them. There’s a heft to his book that speaks of hard work—both in the study and on the land—but there’s also a lightness to the writing that makes it a pleasure to read. The world badly needs more farmer-scholars like Foley.”—Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future, Somerset, UK“This book is a modern peasant’s manifesto! Small farmers today have a stark choice, Michael Foley tells us. We can either buy into the current agricultural and food system and fail utterly, or we can try to change the system entirely. This book outlines the history of agriculture, shows where we’ve gone wrong, and recounts the practices and values of the most resilient long-haul farmers throughout the world. Then Foley sets up a visionary solution aimed at helping small farmers both survive the dwindling stages of our current system and position themselves for the dramatic changes the future holds. Farming for the Long Haul extends, expands, and updates Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America, then puts forth a vision of a land of resilient small farms ready to survive the present and thrive into the future.”—Carol Deppe, author of The Resilient Gardener

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Book SynopsisWith a new epilogue about Bill Gates’s global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires’ war on life “This is what globalization looks like: Opportunism. Exploitation. Further centralization of power. Further disempowerment of ordinary people. . . . Vandana Shiva is an expert whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.”—Russell Brand Widespread poverty, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet―and all its people―to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaire dictators of Gates, Buffet, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires like Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control―over finance, food, energy, information, healthcare, and even relationships. Basing her analysis on explosive facts, Shiva exposes the 1%’s model of philanthrocapitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on One Science, One Agriculture, and One History. Instead, Shiva calls for the resurgence of: Real knowledge Real intelligence Real wealth Real work Real well-being With these core goals, people can reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. Breathe Free. Eat Free.Trade Review“All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful, and she is not afraid to tackle those corporate giants that are polluting, degrading and ultimately destroying the natural world.”—Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace“Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.”—Ms. magazine“A rock star in the worldwide battle against genetically modified seeds.”—Bill Moyers“Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.”—The Progressive“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”—The Guardian

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Book SynopsisAn alternative reading of the relationship between the state and smallholder peasants in mid-nineteenth-century EgyptThis book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft, and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment.Maha Ghalwash presents a rich, detailed analysis of such crucial issues as land legislation, tax impositions, the system of tax collection, modes of land acquisition, large-scale peasant abandonment of land, the emergence of surplus lands, the formation of large, privileged estates, distribution of village land, female land inheritance, and the nature of peasants’ political activity. In investigating these issues, she highlights peasant voices, experiences, and agential power.Traditional interpretations of the rural history of nineteenth-century Egypt generally specify an avaricious state, so indifferent to peasant well-being that it consistently developed harsh policies that led to unremitting, extensive peasant impoverishment. Through an examination of the relationship between the absolutist state and the majority of its subject population, the peasant smallholders, during 1848–63, this study shows that these ideas do not hold for the mid-century period. State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt will be of interest to students of Middle East history, especially Egyptian rural history, as well as those of peasant studies, subaltern studies, gender studies, and Ottoman rural history.Trade Review"Through examination of a remarkably rich collection of land registers, court records, government documents, and more, Maha Ghalwash weaves a nuanced and compelling narrative about Egyptian peasants during the mid-nineteenth century. She draws on the voices of the villagers, and how they negotiated with a centralized government, to introduce an alternative perspective on the nature of their relationship with the state. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of rural Egypt during a decisive period in the country’s modern state formation.”—Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin College"An impressively thorough and meticulous book, which challenges the conventional wisdom and breaks new ground in our understandings of peasant land tenure and peasant–state relations in mid-nineteenth century Egypt."—John Chalcraft, London School of Economics and Political Science"This empirically driven study weaves together a critical reading of state policies with a close attention to peasant voices. Maha Ghalwash offers a vivid picture of rural society in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt that invites us to rethink the role of global markets, dynastic politics, notions of justice, and peasant agency. The result is a truly revisionist account of Egypt in the middle decades of the nineteenth century."—Khaled Fahmy, Tufts University“In this cogently argued and extensively documented survey, Maha Ghalwash sheds new light on a period of Egyptian history that is usually dismissed as static if not retrograde. Equally important, she enhances our understanding of the institutions and procedures of governance in Egypt’s agrarian provinces at a moment when private landholding and market dynamics were superseding communal property rights and overtly regulated transactions. Anyone who wishes to explore the multifaceted economic transformation that reconfigured the Middle East during the mid-nineteenth century can now complement path-breaking scholarship on Ottoman Syria and Anatolia with the arguably more consequential case of Khedival Egypt.”—Fred H. Lawson, Mills College“It is refreshing and reassuring to find a historian who bases her work on detailed archival research and who is unafraid to go against the political tides which see the rich and powerful—and modern capitalism—as an all-powerful evil force.”—Patrick Clawson, Middle East QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Note on transliteration, spelling and dates Introduction 1. The Land Laws 2. Peasants and Taxes 3. System of Tax Collection 4. Land Tenure in Peasant Villages 5. Peasant Women and Inheritance of Land Conclusion Appendix I: The Distribution of Land in the Sample Villages:Distribution According to Different Categories Appendix II: The Impact of the Major Tax Codes on the FourSample Villages Appendix III: Egyptian Archival Sources Select BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFollowing Serbia's acceptance as a candidate for EU membership, it's agriculture and rural issues will receive major attention as agriculture is an important activity in Serbia, especially in the low-income rural areas. This raises questions such as: what will be the main challenges of EU membership for Serbia? What will EU membership imply for the structure and performance of the agri-food supply chain? How should Serbia address the adjustment process to comply with EU rules and face economic market forces best? This book explores the consequences of preparing for EU accession for Serbia's agricultural policies and its agri-food supply chain. The book presents a comprehensive description of Serbia's agricultural and food sectors, agricultural policies, trade, environmental, animal and plant health issues, and also addresses budgetary consequences of EU membership for both Serbia and the EU.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Serbia's Economy and Regional Income Distribution 3: The Institutional Framework of Serbia and Serbian Agriculture 4: Agricultural Production, Prices and Income 5: Serbia's Rural Population and Agricultural Workforce 6: The Agri-food Supply Chain 7: Overview of Agricultural, Rural and Structural Policies 8: Serbia's Foreign Trade Position 9: Environment and Agriculture 10: Animal and Plant Health in Serbia 11: Expected Consequences for Serbia and the EU of Serbia Accessing the EU

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Book SynopsisIt is believed that the major countries of the former Soviet Union—specifically Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine (KRU region)—are the part of the world with the most potential to increase food supplies and strengthen world food security. This book examines the future of the KRU countries in global agricultural markets and will examine a number of agricultural sectors, including meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables. However particular attention is paid to the region’s potential expansion of the grain sector and why the KRU region emerged during the 2000s as a major grain exporter, and its potential to further expand grain production and exports. It also examine the issues of environmental constraints and trade-offs for agriculture, sustainability, and the possible effects of climate changeTable of Contents1: Overview of Agriculture in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine 2: Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Development Constraints: Evidence from the Wheat, Beef and Dairy Sectors 3: The Rise of the Former Soviet Union Region as a Major Grain Exporter 4: Policy Issues and Prospects for Ukraine’s Grain Exports 5: Wheat Export Development in Ukraine 6: Effect of Relative Export Price Changes of the Top Principal Crops in Russia Ekaterina Vorotnikova 7: The Role of Production Cooperatives in Russian Agriculture 8: Agricultural Cooperative Development in Kazakhstan and Ukraine 9: The Strategy of Innovative Development of Russian Agriculture 10: The Emergence of Agroholdings and Patterns of Land Use in Ukraine 11: Large-Scale Dairy and Poultry Production in Russia: Level and Trends of Development 12: Does Agroholding Membership Increase Productivity and Efficiency in Russian Agriculture? Evidence from Agroholdings in the Belgorod Oblast 13: Large-Scale Dairy and Poultry Production in Russia: Efficiency and External Environment 14: International Crop Yield Comparisons: Selected KRU Regions 15: Modelling Fertilizer Demand: The Three Bads 16: Russian Trade in Agricultural Products: Current State and Influences of Trade Integration 17: Farm Support in Ukraine and Russia under the Rules of the WTO 18: Accession of KRU to the WTO: The Effect of Tariff Reductions on KRU and International Wheat Markets 19: Wheat Export Restrictions in Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine: Impact on Prices along the Wheat-to-Bread Supply Chain 20: Agricultural Land Policy of Ukraine: State Legislation and Efficiency Analysis 21: Dynamics of Agricultural Production and Land Use in Post-Soviet Ukraine Denys 22: Competitive Analysis of Pulse Production in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan 23: Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Subsidies Based on the Basic Output Equations for Agricultural Enterprises in the North-western Regions of Russia

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Book SynopsisAgricultural entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions face special challenges; not just everyday personal risks, but also the difficulties of building small businesses when real or threatened violence can disrupt business growth cycles and economic security. Alongside establishing secure institutions, building a secure economy is rightly seen as the best way for conflict-torn regions to establish a peaceful future. But current agricultural entrepreneurship training and development starts from an assumption of peace, meaning that it is not always fit for purpose. The result is sub-optimal program design and inefficient use of resources. A product of a collaboration of experts in the fields of agri-business, agricultural marketing, and international development, this book gives officials and agencies developing entrepreneurship programs the practical real-life examples they need. Key Features: · Based on research by experienced field practitioners. · Establishes best practice approaches for supporting agri-entrepreneurship in conflict regions. · Range of global case studies to illustrate lessons learnt.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Agri-entrepreneurs and their characteristics Chapter 2: Comparing Agri-entrepreneurs in Non-Conflict Regions vs. Conflict and Transitional Economies Chapter 3: Agri-entrepreneurship Enabling Program Design in Conflict Regions for Youth Development: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Chapter 4: A Capabilities Approach to Designing Agri-Entrepreneurship Training Programs for Conflict-Affected Regions: The Case of Central Mindanao, Philippines Chapter 5: Measuring youth entrepreneurship attributes: the case of an out-of-school youth training program in Mindanao, Philippines Chapter 6: Coping strategies for youth entrepreneurs in conflict areas Chapter 7: Allowing entrepreneurs to save profits is important to motivation, sustainability, and resilience: can all cultures support this? Chapter 8: Assessing gender gaps in information delivery for better farming decisions: the case of Albania Chapter 10: Urban consumer preferences for food in post -conflict economies – the case of Kosovo Chapter 11: Characterizing farmer innovation behavior for agricultural technologies in transitionary areas facing environmental change Chapter 9: Is Marketing Intelligence Necessary in Conflict and Transitional Region Markets? Chapter 12: Understanding conservation agriculture adopter’s information network to promote innovation and agriculture entrepreneurship: the case of tribal farmers in the hill region of Nepal

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Book SynopsisProfessor Jha and Professor Gaiha address important issues of food security in their wide-ranging selection of the most influential published contributions in this area of study. Their comprehensive, original introduction discusses each article and places it within the context of twelve distinct themes, from which emerges a cogent view of the developing scholarly literature in this area and of the challenges that still remain.These volumes will provide ready access to major landmark contributions in food security and thus be of interest to all academics, policymakers, international organizations and students working in this area.Trade Review‘Although some progress has been achieved in reducing hunger and child undernutrition in recent decades, these scourges remain pervasive. Lack of access of all people to adequate food at all times impairs healthy and productive living. Underweight and stunted children fail to realize their potential cognitive and physical development. This rich and ambitious survey of important contributions over the last two hundred years offers valuable insights into designing more effective policies and better implementation. As recurrence of food crises cannot be ruled out, especially with the unpredictable exacerbation of climate change, their prevention remains a major priority and a daunting policy challenge. Multilateral development agencies, policy makers and scholars would benefit immensely from this survey. The introductory essay by the editors offers a masterly exposition of food security through a remarkable blend of scholarship and deep understanding of policy challenges. This tour de force should shape the development and food security discourse for years to come.’ -- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsTable of ContentsVolume I Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Raghbendra Jha and Raghav Gaiha PART I CLASSICS IN FOOD SECURITY 1. Thomas Malthus ([1798] 1998), ‘Question Stated – Little Prospect of a Determination of it, from the Enmity of the Opposing Parties – The Principal Argument Against the Perfectibility of Man and of Society has Never been Fairly Answered – Nature of the Difficulty Arising from Population – Outline of the Principal Argument of the Essay’, and ‘The Different Ratio in which Population and Food Increase – The Necessary Effects of these Different Ratios of Increase – Oscillation Produced by them in the Condition of the Lower Classes of Society – Reasons why this Oscillation has Not been so Much Observed as Might be Expected – Three Propositions on which the General Argument of the Essay Depends – The Different States in which Mankind have been Known to Exist Proposed to be Examined with Reference to these Three Propositions’, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers, Chapters 1 and 2, Electronic Scholarly Publishing [originally published by J. Johnson, London, UK], 1‒5, 6‒11 2. David Ricardo ([1817] 1988), ‘Ricardo on Population’, Population and Development Review, 14 (2), June, 339–46 3. Ronald L. Meek (1954), ‘Malthus—Yesterday and Today’, Science and Society, 18 (1), Winter, 21–51 4. Robert Dorfman (1989), ‘Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3 (3), Summer, 153–64 5. Amartya Sen (1982), ‘The Food Problem: Theory and Policy’, Third World Quarterly, 4 (3), July, 447–59 6. Oded Galor and David N. Weil (2000), ‘Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond’, American Economic Review, 90 (4), September, 806–28 PART II FAMINES 7. Amartya Sen (1981), ‘Ingredients of Famine Analysis: Availability and Entitlements’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 96 (3), August, 433–64 8. Martin Ravallion (1997), ‘Famines and Economics’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXV (3), September, 1205–42 9. Basil Ashton, Kenneth Hill, Alan Piazza and Robin Zeitz (1984), ‘Famine in China, 1958–61’, Population and Development Review, 10 (4), December, 613–45 10. Justin Yifu Lin and Dennis Tao Yang (2000), ‘Food Availability, Entitlements and the Chinese Famine of 1959–61’, Economic Journal, 110 (460), January, 136–58 11. Cormac Ó’Gráda (2008), ‘The Ripple that Drowns? Twentieth-Century Famines in China and India as Economic History’, Economic History Review, Special Issue: Feeding the Masses: Plenty, Want and the Distribution of Food and Drink in Historical Perspective, 61 (S1), August, 5–37 12. Helmut Kloos and Bert Lindtjørn (1994), ‘Malnutrition during Recent Famines in Ethiopia’, Northeast African Studies, 1 (1), 121–36 13. Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson and Tao Wang (2001), ‘Famine in North Korea: Causes and Cures’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49 (4), July, 741–67 14. Cormac Ó Gráda (2007), ‘Making Famine History’, Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (1), March, 5–38 PART III MEASUREMENT OF FOOD SECURITY 15. Christopher B. Barrett (2010), ‘Measuring Food Insecurity’, Science, 327 (5967), February, 825–8 16. C. Peter Timmer (2012), ‘Behavioral Dimensions of Food Security’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Special Feature: Perspective, 109 (31), July, 12315–20 17. Hartwig de Haen, Stephan Klasen and Matin Qaim (2011), ‘What Do We Really Know? Metrics for Food Insecurity and Undernutrition’, Food Policy, 36 (6), December 760–9 18. T.N. Srinivasan (1981), ‘Malnutrition: Some Measurement and Policy Issues’, Journal of Development Economics, 8 (1), February, 3–19 19. David E. Sahn and David C. Stifel (2002), ‘Robust Comparisons of Malnutrition in Developing Countries’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84 (3), August, 716–35 378 20. Peter Svedberg (2002), ‘Undernutrition Overestimated’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51 (1), October, 5–36 398 21. Lisa C. Smith and Lawrence Haddad (2002), ‘How Potent Is Economic Growth in Reducing Undernutrition? What Are the Pathways of Impact? New Cross-Country Evidence’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51 (1), October, 55–76 PART IV POVERTY NUTRITION TRAPS 22. Partha Dasgupta (1997), ‘Nutritional Status, the Capacity for Work, and Poverty Traps’, Journal of Econometrics, 77 (1), March, 5–37 23. Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anurag Sharma (2009), ‘Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India’, World Development, 37 (5), May, 982–91 24. T.N. Srinivasan (1994), ‘Destitution: A Discourse’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXII (4), December, 1842–55 25. Andrew D. Foster (1995), ‘Household Savings and Human Investment Behavior in Development: Nutrition and Health Investment’, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings of the Hundredth and Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association Washington DC., 85 (2), May, 148–52 PART V INTRAHOUSEHOLD ALLOCATION OF FOOD AND OTHER RESOURCES 26. Gary S. Becker (1991), ‘Altruism in the Family’, in A Treatise on the Family, Chapter 8, Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 277–306, Bibliography 27. Harold Alderman, Pierre-André Chiappori, Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott and Ravi Kanbur (1995), ‘Unitary versus Collective Models of the Household: Is it Time to Shift the Burden of Proof?’, World Bank Research Observer, 10 (1), February, 1–19 28. Angus Deaton (1987), The Allocation of Goods within the Household: Adults, Children, and Gender and Appendix, LSMS Working Paper: Number 39, Washington, DC, USA: The World Bank, August, i–v, 1–28, A-1–A-5 29. Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Md. Nazmul Hassan (1990), ‘Productivity, Health, and Inequality in the Intrahousehold Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries’, American Economic Review, 80 (5), December, 1139–56 30. Agnes R. Quisumbing and Lisa C. Smith (2007), ‘Intrahousehold Allocation, Gender Relations, and Food Security in Developing Countries’, in Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng (eds), Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in the Global Food System , Case Study 4–5, Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University, 1–13 31. Wei Luo, Fengying Zhai, Shuigao Jin and Keyou Ge (2001), ‘Section 3: World Health Organization Multi-Country Study on Improving Household Food and Nutrition Security for the Vulnerable: Intrahousehold Food Distribution: A Case Study of Eight Provinces in China’, Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 10 (Supplement 1), June, S19–S28 32. Gustavo J. Bobonis (2009), ‘Is the Allocation of Resources within the Household Efficient? New Evidence from a Randomized Experiment’, Journal of Political Economy, 117 (3), June, 453–503 33. Benjamin Senauer, Marito Garcia and Elizabeth Jacinto (1988), ‘Determinants of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Food in the Rural Philippines’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70 (1), February, 170–80 34. Sonia Bhalotra and Cliff Attfield (1998), ‘Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Rural Pakistan: A Semiparametric Analysis’, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Special Issue: Application of Semiparametric Methods for Micro-Data, 13 (5), September–October, 463–80 Volume II Contents Acknowledgements An introdution to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I PART I DIET, NUTRITION AND DISEASE 1. Ellen Messer (1984), ‘Anthropological Perspectives on Diet’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 13, 205–49 2. Mark M. Pitt (1983), ‘Food Preferences and Nutrition in Rural Bangladesh’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 65 (1), February, 105–14 3. Jere R. Behrman, Anil B. Deolalikar and Barbara L. Wolfe (1988), ‘Nutrients: Impacts and Determinants’, World Bank Economic Review, 2 (3), September, 299–320 4. Jere R. Behrman and Anil Deolalikar (1989), ‘Is Variety the Spice of Life? Implications for Calorie Intake’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 71(4), November, 666–72 5. C. Peter Timmer (1981), ‘Is There “Curvature” in the Slutsky Matrix?’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 63 (3), August, 395–402 6. Barry M. Popkin, Linda S. Adair and Shu Wen Ng (2012), ‘Global Nutrition Transition and the Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries’, Nutrition Reviews, 70 (1), January, 3–21 7. Barry M. Popkin (2006), ‘Global Nutrition Dynamics: The World is Shifting Rapidly toward a Diet Linked with Noncommunicable Diseases’, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 84 (2), August, 289–98 8. Xiaoyong Zhang, Hans Dagevos, Yuna He, Ivo van der Lans and Fengying Zhai (2008), ‘Consumption and Corpulence in China: A Consumer Segmentation Study Based on the Food Perspective’, Food Policy, 33 (1), February, 37–47 9. Eileen T. Kennedy (2005), ‘The Global Face of Nutrition: What Can Governments and Industry Do?’, Journal of Nutrition, Symposium: Modifying the Food Environment: Energy Density, Food Costs, and Portion Size, 135 (4), April, 913–15 PART II CHILD MALNUTRITION 10. Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J.L. Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou et al. (2014), ‘Global, Regional, and National Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adults during 1980–2013: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013’, The Lancet, 384, August, 766–81 11. Lawrence Haddad, Harold Alderman, Simon Appleton, Lina Song and Yisehac Yohannes (2003), ‘Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?’, World Bank Economic Review, 17 (1), June, 107–31 12. Farzana Afridi (2010), ‘Child Welfare Programs and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Mandated School Meal Program in India’, Journal of Development Economics, 92 (2), July, 152–65 PART III FOOD CRISIS 13. C. Peter Timmer (2010), ‘Reflections on Food Crises Past’, Food Policy, 35 (1), February, 1–11 14. Eugenio Bobenrieth, Brian Wright and Di Zeng (2013), ‘Stocks-touse Ratios and Prices as Indicators of Vulnerability to Spikes in Global Cereal Markets’, Agricultural Economics, 44 (S1 Supplement), November, 43–52 15. Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic and William J. Martin (2013), ‘Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation, and Poverty’, in Jean-Paul Chavas, David Hummels and Brian D. Wright (eds), The Economics of Food Price Volatility, Chapter 8, Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: University of Chicago Press, 311–44 16. Maros Ivanic and Will Martin (2008), ‘Implications of Higher Global Food Prices for Poverty in Low-Income Countries’, World Bank: Policy Research Working Paper 4594, Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, 1–31, 33–54 17. Emmanuel Skoufias, Sailesh Tiwari and Hassan Zaman (2012), ‘Crises, Food Prices, and the Income Elasticity of Micronutrients: Estimates from Indonesia’, World Bank Economic Review, 26 (3), 415–42 18. David Dawe (2008), ‘Have Recent Increases in International Cereal Prices been Transmitted to Domestic Economies? The Experience in Seven Large Asian Countries’, ESA Working Paper No. 08-03, Agricultural Development Economics Division: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, April, 2–11 19. Kelvin Balcombe, Alastair Bailey and Jonathan Brooks (2007), ‘Threshold Effects in Price Transmission: The Case of Brazilian Wheat, Maize, and Soya Prices’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (2), May, 308–23 20. Benjamin Senauer (2008), ‘Food Market Effects of a Global Resource Shift Toward Bioenergy’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 90 (5), December, 1226–32 21. C. Peter Timmer (2009), ‘Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda?’, World Development , 37 (11), November, 1812–19 22. John Toye (2009), ‘Development with Dearer Food: Can the Invisible Hand Guide Us?’, Journal of International Development, Special Issue: Development Studies Association Conference 2008: Development’s Invisible Hands , 21 (6), August, 757–64 PART IV FOOD PRICE STABILIZATION 23. J.M. Keynes (1938), ‘The Policy of Government Storage of Foodstuffs and Raw Materials’, Economic Journal , 48 (191), September, 449–60 24. D.M.G. Newbery and J.E. Stiglitz (1979), ‘The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilisation Rules: Welfare Impacts and Supply Responses’, Economic Journal , 89 (356), December, 799–817 25. Odin Knudsen and John Nash (1990), ‘Domestic Price Stabilization Schemes in Developing Countries’, Economic Development and Cultural Change , 38 (3), April, 539–58 26. Brian D. Wright (2012), ‘International Grain Reserves and Other Instruments to Address Volatility in Grain Markets’, World Bank Research Observer , 27 (2), August, 222–60 PART V FOOD SUBSIDIES 27. A.C. Pigou (1948), ‘The Food Subsidies’, Economic Journal, 58 (230), June, 202–9 28. Timothy Besley and Ravi Kanbur (1988), ‘Food Subsidies and Poverty Alleviation’, Economic Journal , 98 (392), September, 701–19 29. Harold Alderman and Kathy Lindert (1998), ‘The Potential and Limitations of Self-Targeted Food Subsidies’, World Bank Research Observer , 13 (2), August, 213–29 30. Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller (2011), ‘Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?’, Review of Economics and Statistics , 93 (4), November, 1205–23 31. David E. Sahn and Harold Alderman (1996), ‘The Effect of Food Subsidies on Labor Supply in Sri Lanka’, Economic Development and Cultural Change , 45 (1), October, 125–45 PART VI BIOTECHNOLOGY AND HUNGER 32. Arnab K. Basu and Matin Qaim (2007), ‘On the Adoption of Genetically Modified Seeds in Developing Countries and the Optimal Types of Government Intervention’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (3), August, 784–804 33. Ronald J. Herring (2005), ‘Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers, and the State’, in Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (eds), Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power and Politics, Chapter 8, Lanham, MD, USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 203–32 34. Ronald J. Herring (2007), ‘The Genomics Revolution and Development Studies: Science, Poverty and Politics’, Journal of Development Studies, Special Issue: Transgenics and the Poor: Biotechnology in Development Studies, 43 (1), January, 1–30 35. C. Peter Timmer (2003), ‘Presidential Lecture: Biotechnology and Food Systems in Developing Countries’, Journal of Nutrition, 133 (11), November, 3319–22 PART VII ELIMINATION OF HUNGER 36. John W. Mellor (1980), ‘Food Aid and Nutrition’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 62 (5), December, 979–83 37. Foresight Project (2011), ‘Challenge C: Ending Hunger’, in The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability Final Project Report, Chapter 6, London, UK: Government Office for Science, 115–28 Index

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale socio-economic, political and structural changes characterize contemporary agriculture and food today. This Handbook provides an essential overview to help readers understand the future evolution of agri-food through an analysis of the economy in key regions around the world.Along with chapters that investigate agri-food in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, the book includes contributions that cover topics such as labor, science and technology, the financialization of agri-food, and supermarkets.This Handbook will be required reading for researchers, scholars and students in the social sciences looking to learn more about agriculture and food. Policy makers and industry leaders interested in agri-food will also find this to be an insightful read.Contributors: G. Aboites, C. Bain, J.S. Barbosa Cavalcanti, M.Belo Moreira, B. Bock, A. Bonanno, B. Brandl, L. Busch, I. Cucco, T. Dandachi, M. del Rosario Castro Bernardini, J. Dixon, M. Etxezarreta, M. Fairbairn, M. Fonte, L. Glenna, L. Horlings, K. Jones, E.E. Krone, G. Lawrence, F. Martinez, M. Miele, G. Otero, A. Patel-Campillo, G. Pechlaner, E. Ransom, J. Rosell, C. Sachs, K. Sekine, L. ViladomiuTrade Review'This Handbook makes an important contribution to agrifood studies. Departing from more generalized analyses of globalization and neo-liberalism we are presented with a rich range of country level and thematic studies by highly respected authors. In this way, common trends are subjected to the detailed scrutiny of individual Nation States both in the North and the South, unwrapping the heterogeneous forces at work in each. The thematic section in its focus on key issues and actors similarly exposes the complex tendencies often hidden by more generalized accounts of the global agrifood system. Political economy at its best!' --John Wilkins, Graduate Center for Development, Agriculture and Society, Rural Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: AN INTRODUCTION Alessandro Bonanno and Lawrence Busch PART I THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: SELECTED COUNTRIES AND REGIONS 1. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Southern Africa Elizabeth Ransom 2. “100% Pure”? Private Governance Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of ‘Dirty Dairying on New Zealand’s Environment Carmen Bain and Tamera Dandachi 3. The Political Economy of Agri-Food in Mexico Francisco Martinez and Gilberto Aboites 4. Argentina’s Agrifood Transformations in the Context of Globalization: Changing Ways of Farming Clara Craviotti 5. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Colombia: An Unfinished Business Anouk Patel-Campillo and María del Rosario Castro Bernardini 6. Brazilian Farmers, Quality and Markets Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti and Evander Eloi Krone 7. The Political Economy of Agriculture and Food in North America: Toward Convergence or Divergence? Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero 8. Transition of Agriculture and Agricultural Policies in Japan: From Postwar to the Neoliberal Era Kae Sekine 9. The European Common Agriculture Policy: a Tale of Slow Adjustment to Neoliberal Globalization Manuel Belo Moreira 10. An Overview of Spanish Agriculture in the 21st Century Miren Etxezarreta, Jordi Rosell and Lourdes Viladomiu PART II SELECTED THEMES OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD 11. The Political Economy of Agri-Food: Supermarkets Geoffrey Lawrence and Jane Dixon 12. Finance and the Food System Madeleine Fairbairn 13. The Political Economy of Labor Relations in Agriculture and Food Alessandro Bonanno 14. The Political Economy of Alternative Agriculture in Italy Maria Fonte and Ivan Cucco 15. Animal Welfare: the Challenges of Implementing a Common Legislation in Europe Mara Miele, Bettina Bock and Lummina Horlings 16. International Political Economy of Agricultural Research and Development Leland Glenna, Barbara Brandl, and Kristal Jones 17. Gender and the International Political Economy of Agri-Food Carolyn Sachs Index

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Book SynopsisWith the world's largest population and second largest economy, China plays an important role in global food production and consumption. This book by a distinguished group of authors presents an updated analysis of food consumption in China. The material covered is informative and comprehensive. All food-related traders, researchers and analysts would benefit from reading this book.'- Yanrui Wu, The University of Western AustraliaRecent decades have seen China's domestic consumption in sectors such as food, housing, health care, education and travel greatly increase. This important book assesses China's current food consumption trends and the outlook for its future needs of such a crucial commodity.Key features of the book include:- A systematic examination of the key elements shaping food consumption, with particular attention to factors peculiar to China;- An evaluation of changes in food consumption between rural and urban residents, the rich and poor, and consumers of different regions and identification of the key drivers behind such changes;- A comprehensive coverage of all major food items including foodgrains, meats and other animal products, fruits and vegetables, alcoholic drinks, and aquacultural products; and- A projection for China s food import needs by 2020.This book will be of great relevance to anyone who is interested in the dynamics of Chinese food consumption, such as commodity traders, leaders of agri-food industries, food trade officials, and food market researchers. It will also prove a valuable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students majoring in food marketing and trade, general food and agricultural economics and scholars studying food consumption issues.Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Past Studies on China's Food Consumption 3. Recent Trends in China s Food Consumption 4. Food Consumption Dynamics: Key Drivers and Future Trends 5. Outlook for China s Food Consumption and Import Needs 6. Further Discussion 7. Conclusions and Implications References Appendixes Appendix A. Food Balance Sheets Appendix B. Income Elasticity Estimates Appendix C. Projections on China s Food Production and Consumption by 2022 Appendix D. Sown Area, Yield, Crop Output and Output of Animal Products IndexTrade Review‘This work is not an easy read, for all the right reasons. The authors stay well away from stylised facts, instead providing a rigorous assessment that gives readers a more informed and textured understanding of key drivers of China’s food consumption. Beyond academics, commercial firms and prospective trading partners will find this book an important resource; its judicious use of tables, charts, maps and applied work paint a nuanced picture of China’s markets’ prospects and the challenges that still remain.’ -- Brad Gilmour, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada‘China’s food consumption will have a fundamental impact on Chinese and global food supply and demand, and therefore food and nutrition security in the world. In addition, Chinese consumption patterns have important implications on global natural resources and the environment. To design policies and strategies to guide Chinese consumers towards a more sustainable and healthy diet requires solid data and analysis of future Chinese consumption trends. This book is a welcome first step. The authors of this book are some of the most experienced and respected researchers on Chinese agriculture and food issues. It is a valuable source of reference for researchers, government policymakers and anyone in the private sector who is interested in Chinese and global food systems.’ -- Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute, US‘With the world’s largest population and second largest economy, China‘‘In general, the book provides a synthetic and updated review for transformation of food consumption in China. The book basically covered all important issues related to are analyzed in an easy way. In particular, the book successfully identifies the six main drivers behind the transformation, and analyzes the specific roles of each factor. The conclusions and projections hence are valuable for policy and business stakeholders. The book is very well written and very readable even for non-academic readers, such as commodity traders, food trade officials, and agricultural policy makers, different -- from usual academic books full of jargons and equations. The structure is simple, but clear and the analysis is efficient.’– Xiaohua Yu, Quarterly Journal of International AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Past Studies on China’s Food Consumption 3. Recent Trends in China’s Food Consumption 4. Food Consumption Dynamics: Key Drivers and Future Trends 5. Outlook for China’s Food Consumption and Import Needs 6. Further Discussion 7. Conclusions and Implications References Appendixes Appendix A. Food Balance Sheets Appendix B. Income Elasticity Estimates Appendix C. Projections on China’s Food Production and Consumption by 2022 Appendix D. Sown Area, Yield, Crop Output and Output of Animal Products Index

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Book SynopsisWine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time even seen by some as 'an elixir of life'. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks's book is an accessible exploration of the economics of wine, using both basic principles and specialized topics and emphasizing microeconomics and related research.Drawing upon economic themes such as International Trade and Public Choice, Wine and Economics also relates economic reasoning to management issues in wine markets. The discussion ranges from economic fundamentals and wine and government, to the challenge of knowing what is in the bottle and the importance of wine as a cultural good.This novel and comprehensive introduction to the subject is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and anyone interested in wine and the wine industry.Trade Review’Denton Marks's book fills a void in both the economic and the wine-related literature. It offers the economic student insights into the wine world and the wine professionals into economic thinking. Certainly, this is the first 'wine economics' textbook.’ -- Karl Storchmann, New York University, US and Managing Editor, Journal of Wine Economics’What is welcome with Denton's book is its exploration beyond the narrow focus of wine pricing. The outline of how wine fits into key economic processes is illuminating, and the understanding of the political economy of wine is especially helpful. Crucially, the examination of how wine functions as a cultural good is a real expansion of our understanding of its social and economic context, underlining that value is not merely a financial construct but includes intangible, symbolic meaning as well.’ -- Steve Charters, School of Wine and Spirits Business, Burgundy School of Business, France’Most professions show a professional interest in wine, and economics is no exception: it can help us understand how wine markets work. But since economics is considered by many as a rather 'dry' subject, wine can boost student enthusiasm for economics. This book exploits those two interests by helping non-economists understand wine producer and consumer behaviour and helping college students understand economics.’ -- Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide and Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Relevance of Economics 3. Comparative Advantage and Why We Transact 4. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Consumer Behavior and Demand 5. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Firm Behavior, Supply And Equilibrium in a Market 6. Wine and Government 7. A Closer Look at the Transaction: How Do We Know What Is In the Bottle? 8. Wine as a Cultural Good 9. Conclusion Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisCurrently there is no comprehensive account accessible to undergraduate students, graduate students, economic researchers who are not specialists in the area of agricultural policy, of the economic welfare effects of the 2014 Farm Bill, passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 7, 2014. This edited collection consists of ten essays, each on the major areas of US farm programs that describes and assesses the economic welfare impacts of the programs in those areas. The chapters involve new research, but also heavily focus on providing assessments based on the current state of the art research. Each chapter is by distinguished scholars who are internationally recognized experts in the field.Trade ReviewEconomists predict the economic and trade outcomes of what is officially called the 2014 Agriculture Act. Their topics include welfare disaster or triumph, a historical perspective, welfare effects of Title One programs, conservation and US agri-environmental policy, the negligible welfare effects of the international food aid provisions, World Trade Organization compliance, multiple peril crop insurance, convoluted and costly US dairy subsidies, the US sugar program, agricultural research policy, and rural development policy. -- Annotation ©2016 * (protoview.com) *

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Book SynopsisThe price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. The challenge is for governments to manage food and farming so that there are neither food shortages nor food surpluses. This book explores how governments can do this and uses theory and evidence to address major ideologies and global problems anew by: - Exploring the causes, consequence and potential for moderation of food price volatility. - Evaluating the various policy tools that have been proposed to eliminate hunger and reduce volatility. - Concluding with a practical strategy to moderate volatility - grain buffer stocks. In so doing the book addresses a core question: how can prices be managed for the benefit of consumers and farmers without impairing the efficiency of the market? Authored by an agricultural economist with thirty years of practical experience in farm policy, this book will assist governments in the design of their food and agricultural policies. Requiring no prior knowledge of economics, it is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of economics, international and sustainable development, agriculture, and food security.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Grain in the world Chapter 3: The pattern of grain prices Chapter 4: The root cause of unstable grain prices Chapter 5: Unstable grain prices – who wins? who loses? Chapter 6: Stabilising grain prices in a closed economy Chapter 7: A model of the international grain market Chapter 8: Stabilising grain prices in an open economy Chapter 9: Buffer stocks – technical and legal aspects Chapter 10: Attitudes towards price stabilisation and buffer stocks Chapter 11: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale socio-economic, political and structural changes characterize contemporary agriculture and food today. This Handbook provides an essential overview to help readers understand the future evolution of agri-food through an analysis of the economy in key regions around the world.Along with chapters that investigate agri-food in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, the book includes contributions that cover topics such as labor, science and technology, the financialization of agri-food, and supermarkets.This Handbook will be required reading for researchers, scholars and students in the social sciences looking to learn more about agriculture and food. Policy makers and industry leaders interested in agri-food will also find this to be an insightful read.Contributors: G. Aboites, C. Bain, J.S. Barbosa Cavalcanti, M.Belo Moreira, B. Bock, A. Bonanno, B. Brandl, L. Busch, I. Cucco, T. Dandachi, M. del Rosario Castro Bernardini, J. Dixon, M. Etxezarreta, M. Fairbairn, M. Fonte, L. Glenna, L. Horlings, K. Jones, E.E. Krone, G. Lawrence, F. Martinez, M. Miele, G. Otero, A. Patel-Campillo, G. Pechlaner, E. Ransom, J. Rosell, C. Sachs, K. Sekine, L. ViladomiuTrade Review'This Handbook makes an important contribution to agrifood studies. Departing from more generalized analyses of globalization and neo-liberalism we are presented with a rich range of country level and thematic studies by highly respected authors. In this way, common trends are subjected to the detailed scrutiny of individual Nation States both in the North and the South, unwrapping the heterogeneous forces at work in each. The thematic section in its focus on key issues and actors similarly exposes the complex tendencies often hidden by more generalized accounts of the global agrifood system. Political economy at its best!' --John Wilkins, Graduate Center for Development, Agriculture and Society, Rural Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: AN INTRODUCTION Alessandro Bonanno and Lawrence Busch PART I THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: SELECTED COUNTRIES AND REGIONS 1. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Southern Africa Elizabeth Ransom 2. “100% Pure”? Private Governance Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of ‘Dirty Dairying on New Zealand’s Environment Carmen Bain and Tamera Dandachi 3. The Political Economy of Agri-Food in Mexico Francisco Martinez and Gilberto Aboites 4. Argentina’s Agrifood Transformations in the Context of Globalization: Changing Ways of Farming Clara Craviotti 5. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Colombia: An Unfinished Business Anouk Patel-Campillo and María del Rosario Castro Bernardini 6. Brazilian Farmers, Quality and Markets Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti and Evander Eloi Krone 7. The Political Economy of Agriculture and Food in North America: Toward Convergence or Divergence? Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero 8. Transition of Agriculture and Agricultural Policies in Japan: From Postwar to the Neoliberal Era Kae Sekine 9. The European Common Agriculture Policy: a Tale of Slow Adjustment to Neoliberal Globalization Manuel Belo Moreira 10. An Overview of Spanish Agriculture in the 21st Century Miren Etxezarreta, Jordi Rosell and Lourdes Viladomiu PART II SELECTED THEMES OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD 11. The Political Economy of Agri-Food: Supermarkets Geoffrey Lawrence and Jane Dixon 12. Finance and the Food System Madeleine Fairbairn 13. The Political Economy of Labor Relations in Agriculture and Food Alessandro Bonanno 14. The Political Economy of Alternative Agriculture in Italy Maria Fonte and Ivan Cucco 15. Animal Welfare: the Challenges of Implementing a Common Legislation in Europe Mara Miele, Bettina Bock and Lummina Horlings 16. International Political Economy of Agricultural Research and Development Leland Glenna, Barbara Brandl, and Kristal Jones 17. Gender and the International Political Economy of Agri-Food Carolyn Sachs Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the topic and trajectories for future research and development. This will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and development economics, human geography and socio-cultural anthropology.Trade Review‘This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for students, teachers, researchers, policy experts, and activists.’ -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies‘The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is a magnificent field-building achievement. Ambitious and comprehensive, it marks the coming of age of critical agrarian studies, with first-rate contributions from foundational thinkers and emerging stars on everything from agroecology and land, to financialization, territoriality, extractivism, migrant labour, and dozens of other topics.’ -- Marc Edelman, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York‘Critical agrarian studies is not a sentimental journey into the past but ways of rethinking how the dynamics of agrarian change reflect and shape some of the most important issues of our time. In these creative and thoughtful short chapters, leading scholars provide new angles on familiar questions such as land ownership, the ways we eat, agrarian extractivism, ecological crisis and rural social movements and on many new issues as well. Authors also lead readers through current debates and introduce them to the particular methodological problems of agrarian studies.’ -- Bridget O’Laughlin, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Co-Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change'The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is an excellent and solid work that takes us through the foundational and current debates of this research field, its main concepts and methodological approaches, the intersection of the agrarian question with environmental, territorial, techno-science and financialization issues, among other topics. An essential reference book.’ -- Carla Gras, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina‘This Handbook will surely become the point of departure for anyone planning research on agrarian issues from a critical perspective. The 72 contributions – most by well-regarded experts in the field—provide both succinct literature reviews and substantive insight on a broad range of relevant topics. Some of the chapters, such as on The Agrarian Question, Land Grabs, and Feasible Utopias are superb. Whether for clarification of key concepts or to grasp the contours of current debates, the Handbook will be useful to students, researchers, those teaching in the field, as well as policy advocates and activists.’ -- Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxiii Tania Murray Li Acknowledgements xxv 1 An introduction to the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies 1 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay PART I ORIGINS 2 Frontiers, regimes and learning from history 9 Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute 3 Origins of peasant studies 15 Harriet Friedmann 4 The diversity of classical agrarian Marxism 25 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay 5 Debates on the historical origins of agrarian capitalism 34 Xavier Lafrance 6 An alternative perspective on the agrarian question in Europe and in the developing countries 45 Utsa Patnaik PART II CONCEPTS 7 The agrarian question 53 Michael Watts 8 Class 67 Sara Berry 9 Land 72 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 10 Frontiers: Commodification and territorialization 80 Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Christian Lund 11 Labour 91 Jonathan Pattenden 12 Labor and social reproduction 99 Smriti Rao 13 Peasants 109 Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 14 Gender 120 Avanti Mukherjee 15 Gender, nature, body 131 Andrea J. Nightingale and Wendy Harcourt 16 Kinship 139 Pauline E. Peters 17 Generation 150 Ben White 18 Intersectionality 157 Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Markus Ihalainen and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett 19 Merchant and usurer’s capital 165 John Harriss 20 Agricultural markets 171 Muhammad Ali Jan and Barbara Harriss-White 21 Financialization 178 Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson 22 Agrarian law 187 Sergio Coronado 23 Territoriality 197 Annie Shattuck and Nancy Lee Peluso 24 Agrarian/land reform 205 Ben Cousins 25 Food regimes 218 Philip McMichael 26 Crisis 232 Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 27 Food sovereignty, food security and the right to food 238 Priscilla Claeys, Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jasber Singh PART III METHODOLOGIES 28 Qualitative research 251 Elisa Greco 29 Quantitative analysis 258 J. Paul Dunne 30 Geographical research 266 Oliver Pye 31 Questions and answers 272 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 32 The agrarian question in Africa: Past, present and future 279 Samir Amin 33 Social movements in times of extractivism: The ecoterritorial turn in Latin America 285 Maristella Svampa 34 Agrarian change in China: Historical origins and competing perspectives 296 Qian Forrest Zhang 35 Beyond confrontation: Silent growers, symbiosis and subtle peasantness in post-socialist Eurasia 305 Oane Visser, Brian Kuns and Petr Jehlička 36 BRICS and global agrarian transformations 316 Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira and Ben M. McKay 37 Neoliberalism and the crisis in India’s countryside 324 Prabhat Patnaik 38 Crises of capitalism in the countryside: Debates from the South 334 Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros PART V DEBATES 39 Land grabs 346 Ariane Goetz 40 Water for agriculture 357 Larry A. Swatuk 41 Biofuels 366 Carol Hunsberger 42 Industrial fisheries and oceanic accumulation 374 Elizabeth Havice and Liam Campling 43 Forests and current transitions 387 Markus Kröger 44 Artisanal and small-scale mining 401 Boris Verbrugge and Robin Thiers 45 Footloose labour 410 John Harriss 46 Contract farming 416 Helena Pérez Niño and Carlos Oya 47 Biotechnology 427 Matthew A. Schnurr and Lincoln Addison 48 Agroecology 438 Nils McCune and Peter Rosset 49 Identities and culture in the rural world 453 Nicholas Copeland 50 Everyday politics in agrarian societies 463 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet 51 The state and rural politics 469 Leandro Vergara-Camus 52 Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping 480 Facundo Martín 53 Rural social movements/transnational agrarian movements 491 Giuliano Martiniello 54 Industrial agriculture and agrarian extractivism 503 Ben M. McKay and Henry Veltmeyer 55 Rural dispossession and capital accumulation 515 Derek Hall 56 Ecological crises in the rural world 525 Marcus Taylor 57 Microfinance and rural financial inclusion 536 Marcus Taylor 58 Rural indebtedness 547 Julien-François Gerber 59 The neoliberal diet 556 Gerardo Otero 60 Meatification 561 Tony Weis 61 Digital agriculture 568 Kristina Dietz and Franza Drechsel 62 COVID-19 581 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART VI TRAJECTORIES 63 The interface of critical development studies and critical agrarian studies 594 Henry Veltmeyer 64 Political ecology 601 Kristina Dietz 65 Pluriloguing postcolonial studies and critical agrarian studies 610 Johanna Leinius 66 Agrarian justice: Land, human rights and democratization 620 Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez 67 Strategic linkages between STS and critical agrarian studies 630 Ryan Nehring 68 The Capitalocene response to the Anthropocene 636 Kees Jansen and Joost Jongerden 69 Degrowth in agrarian and fisheries studies 647 Arnim Scheidel, Irmak Ertör and Federico Demaria 70 Reconfiguring the intersection between urban food movements and agrarian struggles: Building an urban political agroecology praxis 656 Chiara Tornaghi and Severin Halder 71 Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside 666 Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels 72 Feasible utopias 676 Ray Bush Index 689

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Book SynopsisThe development of transgenic crops is revolutionary, but what does it mean for food production, prices and the environment? This is the first book to examine the economic evidence in a methodical way. It initially describes the historical evolution of biotechnology and defines key terms, before moving on to explore transgenic technology and food regime concepts. The book analyzes genetically modified organism (GMO) policy as part of overall agrarian policy, considering neoregulation in the USA, the EU, Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa and Serbia; as well as discussing agricultural performance, support and trade relations. The effect of transgenic food production on world food prices is also examined, along with food security at global and regional levels, and the links between GMOs and world hunger. The environmental implications of transgenic technology are considered through analysis of pesticide and fertilizer usage and efficiency, and pesticide consumption in GMO and non-GMO producing countries. Finally, the book considers the entry of transgenic ingredients into the food chain and lists the products affected. Key features: - Detailed analysis of economic data. - Comparison of international trends, including BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and Serbia. - Evaluation of environmental and food security implications. - Glossary of important terms. This book will be valuable for agricultural economists, including students at Masters and PhD level. It will also be of interest to agricultural engineers, food technologists, nutritionists, industry representatives, policy makers, policy advisers and analysts and NGOs.Table of Contents1: Ancient, Classical and Modern Biotechnology 2: Genetically Modified Foods in the Light of Food Regimes 3: Does Transgenic Food Production Affect World Food Prices? 4: Food Security and GMOs 5: Is GMO Farming an Eco-Friendly Choice? 6: GMOs: What are We Eating?

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Book SynopsisThe current evolution of the European economy suggests that in the near future, research in agri-food economy and agri-food production, and agricultural production systems and structures must be redesigned, adapted and developed to respond to the lack of sustainability of agri-food production systems and the current global food crisis. This book analyses the agricultural paradigm transformations that occur as countries converge on the European agricultural model and what their impact is for sectoral development, while emphasizing their contribution to the redefinition of rural agricultural communities and economy. This book helps develop a theoretical framework by analysing the specialized empirical literature and techniques used in the field of agricultural economy research, with a focus on the transformation of Romanian agriculture in order to become integrated and respond to the globalization of markets. presents, analyses and discusses the main theories in field of agricultural economics and paradigms; creates a working paradigm for this concept within agricultural economics; provides a theoretical framework for the agricultural model. The book is aimed at students and researchers in agricultural economics, and government and policy makers internationally.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Common Agricultural Policy – Long-standing and New Paradigms 3: Analysis of the European Agricultural Context 4: Correlations, Trends and Realities in the European Agri-food Model 5: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis Modern Guide provides detailed theoretical and empirical insights into key areas of research in food economics. It takes a forward-looking perspective on how different actors in the food system shape the sustainability of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as on major challenges to efficient and inclusive food systems.Analysing the main characteristics of modern food markets, chapters introduce readers to the economics of food systems, product differentiation, the mediating role of food retailers, and the increasing significance and complexity of international trade in food. Encapsulating new methods in the study of food economics and policy, this Modern Guide explores changes in food value chains and consumption. It further pushes the boundaries of food economics to include economic perspectives on the role of social media and technology such as genomics in shaping food systems.Offering key insights into the state-of-the-art debates in the field, this Modern Guide will be critical reading for graduate students and researchers of food economics. It will also be a timely book for practitioners in the field wishing to take a fresh look at issues shaping food systems.Trade Review‘Food systems today reflect new technologies in food production and distribution, and consumers’ demand for a broad range of attributes in food. Conditions that promote innovation and enhance information are key to the markets that have emerged. A Modern Guide to Food Economics provides new insights into economic models, data, and analytics for understanding the increasingly complex food environment today.’ -- Helen H. Jensen, Iowa State University, US‘A Modern Guide to Food Economics edited by Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs will be a must-read for all of us who are working on the topic. The carefully edited book, with contributions from leading scholars, covers the new developments in food economics including food systems, regulatory issues, and more.’ -- Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University, the Netherlands‘The Modern Guide is an excellent collection of essays on the modern state of the art in food economics that is an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and individuals interested in understanding and changing the modern food system.’ -- Jayson Lusk, Purdue University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to A Modern Guide to Food Economics 1 Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs PART I CHANGES IN THE FOOD SYSTEM 1 The economics of food systems 7 David Zilberman 2 The supplier–retailer relationship in contemporary food markets 23 Alessandro Bonanno and Metin .akır 3 Product differentiation in food 47 Jill J. McCluskey and Jason A. Winfree 4 Technical regulation of agri-food trade 62 David Orden, Caesar B. Cororaton and Khadija Rouchdi PART II CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH 5 The economics of the nutrition and sustainable diet transition 89 Xavier Irz and Mario Mazzocchi 6 Health-oriented nutrition policies 113 Jill E. Hobbs and Jutta Roosen 7 The economics of food loss and waste 144 Brenna Ellison and Mary K. Muth 8 Food safety and traceability 170 James Mitchell, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor PART III DEVELOPMENTS IN METHODS AND DATA 9 Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food 193 David R. Just 10 Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the scanner data age 215 Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi 11 Recent developments in inference: practicalities for applied economics 235 Jeffrey D. Michler and Anna Josephson PART IV NEW ISSUES 12 Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model can help to explain the effects of food taxes 270 Sinne Smed, Chiara Lombardini and Leena Lankoski 13 Food, beverages, and social media: trends and tools for economic research 297 Sean B. Cash, Saleem Alhabash, Gabriela Fretes and Mengyan Ma 14 How the use of genomics may continue to influence consumer behaviour 327 Ellen Goddard Index 352

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Book SynopsisUpdated and revised, this fifth edition incorporates recent developments in the environment in which agriculture operates. Issues that have gained prominence since the previous edition (2014) include climate change and agriculture's mitigating role, concern with animal welfare, the social contributions that agriculture makes, risks associated with globalization, and rising concern over sustainability. Important for UK and EU readers are the adjustments needed now that the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and the nature of the national policies developed to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Containing all the major economic principles with agriculture-specific examples, An Introduction to Economics, 5th Edition provides a rounded and up-to-date introduction to the subject. The inclusion of updated chapter-focused exercises, essay questions and suggestions for further reading make this textbook an invaluable learning tool. This book: Is updated to include new developments, such as Brexit, importance of climate change and animal welfare. Includes exercises and essay questions. Suggests further reading to supplement the text. This book is recommended for students of agriculture, economics and related sectors.Table of Contents1 : What is Economics? 2 : Explaining the Behaviour of Individuals: Theory of Consumer Choice 3 : Demand and Supply: the Price Mechanism in a Market Economy 4 : Markets and Competition 5 : Production Economics: Theory of the Firm 6 : Factors of Production and their Rewards: Theory of Distribution 7 : Market Failure: Some Problems of Using the Market to Allocate Resources 8 : Macroeconomics: the Workings of the Whole Economy 9 : International Trade 10: Government Policy for Agriculture and Rural Areas

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Book SynopsisThe price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. The challenge is for governments to manage food and farming so that there are neither food shortages nor food surpluses. This book explores how governments can do this and uses theory and evidence to address major ideologies and global problems anew by: - Exploring the causes, consequence and potential for moderation of food price volatility. - Evaluating the various policy tools that have been proposed to eliminate hunger and reduce volatility. - Concluding with a practical strategy to moderate volatility - grain buffer stocks. In so doing the book addresses a core question: how can prices be managed for the benefit of consumers and farmers without impairing the efficiency of the market? Authored by an agricultural economist with thirty years of practical experience in farm policy, this book will assist governments in the design of their food and agricultural policies. Requiring no prior knowledge of economics, it is essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in the areas of economics, international and sustainable development, agriculture, and food security.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Grain in the world Chapter 3: The pattern of grain prices Chapter 4: The root cause of unstable grain prices Chapter 5: Unstable grain prices – who wins? who loses? Chapter 6: Stabilising grain prices in a closed economy Chapter 7: A model of the international grain market Chapter 8: Stabilising grain prices in an open economy Chapter 9: Buffer stocks – technical and legal aspects Chapter 10: Attitudes towards price stabilisation and buffer stocks Chapter 11: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis visionary book takes stock of the urgent challenges facing food chains globally and provides a critical evaluation of radical new thinking and perspectives on agricultural and food policy. Wyn Grant investigates the principal drivers of change in food and agriculture, including globalization, climate change, the structure of the industry, changing patterns of consumer demand and new technologies.Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy provides a comprehensive account of the contemporary challenges impacting the food chain. Chapters explore the various barriers towards positive progress, exposing the deficiency of institutional architecture at a domestic and international level and examining how attempts to reform and revitalize it encounter inertia, embedded production structures, defenders of the status quo and vested interests. Proposing that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach is essential in making progress towards revitalizing policy and encouraging innovation in international governance, Wyn Grant calls for a new agenda to deliver real and necessary change and offer hope for the planet and its people. Using critical insights from natural and social science to uphold its calls for a holistic, integrated approach to agricultural and food policy, this timely book will be an essential read for policy makers, as well as students taking undergraduate or postgraduate courses in agriculture, food and the environment.Trade Review‘Food – what we eat and how it is produced – has become a hot button issue. In this book, Wyn Grant draws on his deep knowledge and experience of agricultural and food policies to provide an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the policies and politics of food. This book enriches the contemporary debate on transforming our food system by systematically outlining the challenges it faces and exploring the changes that are required.’ -- Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: what needs to be rethought? 2. How food reaches the plate: the structure of the food chain 3. Consumer demand and producer responses 4. Globalization 5. The role of the state 6. Plant and animal health and welfare 7. Climate change 8. Conclusions: selecting priorities References Index

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Book SynopsisThis incisive Handbook provides a global update on the state of knowledge in cooperatives and mutuals, expertly describing future directions for research and education. Showcasing extensive discussions of cooperative theory, Matthew S. Elliott and Michael A. Boland, and the contributors, assess cooperatives' social, economic and environmental effects and analyse the impact of regional and cultural features that make cooperatives unique. The insightful chapters are organised into key sections, including theory, organisation, governance and cross-sector applications, and introduce a relevant theory, framework, special topic or mini case on cooperatives and mutuals. The Handbook also examines the role of leaders, members and producers in supply chain governance and looks at different forms of cooperatives and mutuals and their prominence in the economy. Offering an excellent in-depth read, this Handbook will be a vital additional resource for economics scholars and researchers, and those teaching and working on cooperatives and mutualism. It will also prove helpful for conducting leader and member education programs.Trade Review‘This Handbook is remarkable for the breadth and quality of its contributors. Kudos to the Editors for assembling such a comprehensive collection of chapters on cooperatives and mutuals theory, governance, and practice.’ -- Brent Hueth, U.S Department of Agriculture, Washington DC, US‘Cooperatives define a multidimensional, complex set of organizational arrangements. This Handbook mobilizes an impressive group of experts to review the nature, role, governance, and diffusion of cooperatives worldwide, whilst exploring the numerous problems they face. It is a must-read for researchers and students as well as practitioners.’ -- Claude Menard, University of Paris, France‘Cooperatives and mutuals are a significant part of the economic landscape in most countries, but we have lacked a comprehensive source for knowledge and understanding of them and their potential to improve economic outcomes for members. This book, comprised of contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars and practitioners, fills this need and is an indispensable reference for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.’ -- Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals 1 Matthew S. Elliott and Michael A. Boland PART I THEORY 1 The economic theory of agricultural and consumer cooperatives 9 Jeffrey S. Royer 2 The new institutional economic theory of cooperatives: taking stock, looking ahead 22 Matthew S. Elliott and Frayne Olson PART II ORGANIZATION 3 Organizational costs in agricultural cooperatives: comparison of European and US approaches 52 Constantine Iliopoulos and Michael L. Cook 4 New generation cooperatives: what we know and need to learn 83 Jason Franken 5 Cooperative business structures: access to capital via equity and credit 100 Christopher J. Kopka PART III GOVERNANCE 6 Social capital and governance of agricultural cooperatives 116 Jerker Nilsson 7 Leadership in agricultural cooperatives 135 John L. Park, Diane B. Friend, Matthew T. Manley and Barry L. Boyd 8 Measuring cooperative performance using organizational effectiveness and member participation 148 Sanjib Bhuyan and Kostas Karantininis 9 A framework for understanding the role of producers in governance of supply chains 166 Michael A. Boland, Noreen Byrne, Bridget Carroll, Olive McCarthy, Stephen Pitts, and Will Secor 10 The role of the farmer and their cooperative in supply chain governance: a Latin American small producer perspective 172 Stephen Pitts 11 The role of the farmer and their cooperative in supply chain governance: a US perspective 185 Michael A. Boland and William Secor 12 The role of the farmer and their cooperative in supply chain governance: an Irish perspective 193 Bridget Carroll, Olive McCarthy, Noreen Byrne, Michael A. Boland and Michael Ward PART IV CROSS-SECTOR APPLICATIONS 13 Risk and uncertainty in cooperative business 208 Frayne Olson and Matthew S. Elliott 14 The role of the marketing year and its implications for business strategy and finance 229 Michael A. Boland 15 Towards a framework for formulating cooperative strategy 235 Matthew S. Elliott, Frayne Olson, and Jasper Grashuis 16 Profit distribution and financial performance in cooperative firms 252 Phil Kenkel, Brian Briggeman, and Keri Jacobs 17 The implications of taxation and tax policies for cooperatives and members 265 Phil Kenkel, Keri Jacobs, and Brian Briggeman 18 Capitalization, equity, and growth in cooperative firms 277 Keri Jacobs, Phil Kenkel, and Brian Briggeman PART V SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS 19 Differential economic impacts for cooperative business structures: an application to farmer-owned cooperatives in New York State 292 Todd M. Schmit, Frederick C. Tamarkin, and Roberta M. Severson 20 Agricultural cooperatives and the transition to environmentally sustainable food systems 313 Jos Bijman and Julia Höhler 21 The development of cooperative-designed indicators for the SDGs 333 Fiona Duguid and Daphne Rixon PART VI REGIONAL AND CULTURAL FEATURES 22 African American cooperatives: from economic survival to economic justice 355 Jessica Gordon Nembhard 23 Recent developments among dairy cooperatives in the European Union 371 Julia Höhler and Jos Bijman 24 Social relations and cooperative development in rural China 389 Qian Wan, Eric Micheels, and Murray Fulton 25 Farmer cooperatives in China: frontiers in development and research 408 Qiao Liang and Ziming Han 26 Agricultural cooperatives in Latin America: the case of dairy 424 Alejandro Galetto and Gustavo Rossini 27 Unique features of agricultural cooperatives in sub-Saharan Africa 442 Nicola Francesconi, Fleur Wouterse, Michael L. Cook and Gashaw Abate Tadesse PART VII SPECIAL SECTORS AND TOPICS 28 Consumer cooperatives: purpose and possibilities 456 Zoë T. Plakias and Jason S. Entsminger 29 Product innovation and promotion of value-added products via marketing cooperatives 476 Kristin Kiesel, Sean Kiely, and Rachael E. Goodhue 30 Mutuals 496 James M. White 31 Worker cooperatives: solidarity at work 519 Sonja Novkovic and Jessica Gordon Nembhard 32 Multi-stakeholder cooperatives 533 Sonja Novkovic and Margaret Lund Epilogue: future directions on research and education on cooperatives and mutualism 551 Matthew S. Elliott and Michael A. Boland Index

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Book SynopsisA billion aspirational people, connected by technology, confident of their cultural and consumption power. If there is any group that has the potential to radically redefine a nation, it is rural Indians. By 2036, India is projected to be home to 1.52 billion people - having overtaken China around 2031 - with 931 million people still living in villages. Rural India is simply too large and too fast growing an agglomeration to ignore. This book maps their transformation, and shows how to realize their social and economic promise. It is a timely and important new work, ideal for students, scholars, marketing practitioners, and policy makers.Trade ReviewSpurred by technology, enabled by growing investment in infrastructure and accompanied by recognition of the need for social justice, a wave of aspiration is sweeping through families in the countryside. It is this sense of optimism and dynamism that The Future of India’s Rural Markets captures so well. The book is structured to answer the three fundamental questions: why do rural markets matter, what is the change that is sweeping through them, and how to engage meaningfully with rural consumers. -- From the foreword by Professor Vijay Mahajan, University of Texas, Austin.Table of ContentsForeword; Vijay Mahajan Introduction. The Changemakers PART A: Why does Rural India Matter, more than ever Chapter 1. The Intersection of Agriculture and Technology Chapter 2. The Impact and Challenge of Migration Chapter 3. Faster Economic Growth Chapter 4. Rural Women – A Catalytic Force Chapter 5. A Matter of Identity Chapter 6. Improvement in Health and Education Chapter 7. Financial Inclusion Chapter 8. Rural Road Connectivity and Electrification Chapter 9. Entrepreneurship with a Difference PART B: Manifestations of Change in Rural India Chapter 10. The Price of Onions Chapter 11. From Subsistence to Competitive Markets – The Modernization of India’s Agriculture Sector Chapter 12. From Farming to Services and Entrepreneurship Chapter 13. From Isolated, Male-Dominated Fiefdoms to Connected and Empowered Hubs – The New Gram Panchayat Chapter 14. From Media Dark to Connected Lives Chapter 15. From Handouts to Financial Growth Chapter 16. From Fatalism to Fearless Futures Chapter 17. From Empty Classrooms to Engaging Learning Chapter 18. From Medical Staff Shortages to Digital Healthcare Chapter 19. From Nautanki to Takatak Chapter 20. From Mud Paths to Rural Roads Chapter 21. From Cowdung as Fuel to Renewable Energy Chapter 22. From Haats and Melas to Technology-Enabled Marketplaces Chapter 23. From the Plough to Technology-Enabled Farming Chapter 24. From Rainfall Dependence to Participative Water Management Chapter 25. From Gram Pradhans to New Age Influencers PART C: How to be Meaningful Chapter 26. Build Trust across the Rural Customer Journey Chapter 27. Forge Partnerships for Rural Transformation Chapter 28. Leverage the Opportunity in Agricultural Exports Chapter 29. Understand the Role of Religion Chapter 30. Practice New Approaches in Participatory Research Chapter 31. Unlock Grassroots Innovation Conclusion. Changing the Game

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook synthesizes and analyzes key issues and concerns relating to the impact of agriculture on both farmers and non-farmers. With a unique focus on humans rather than animals or the environment, the book is interdisciplinary and international in scope, with contributions from sociologists, economists, anthropologists and geographers providing case studies and examples from all six populated continents.Looking at the pervasive impact of agriculture, the Handbook explores all aspects of the production of food and fiber within the agrifood value chain, including: farmers and laborers growing crops and raising livestock, businesses supplying inputs for these operations, and processors transforming plants and animals into intermediate and finished food, beverage and clothing products. Separated into four parts, it analyzes how the agrifood industry affects farmer well-being; the application of science and technology within an agricultural context; the ways in which agriculture affects the well-being of smallholder farmers, especially in developing countries; and agriculture’s impact more broadly on society.This will be a beneficial read for economics and sociology students, particularly those looking at the impacts of agriculture. Accessible and clear, the Handbook will also be helpful for policymakers and agricultural NGOs wanting a more in-depth understanding of the impact of agriculture on human life.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides wide-ranging insights into the impact of agriculture on humans. Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and perspectives, the collection provides fresh understandings of long-standing and up-to-the-minute impacts of agriculture and the broader agrifood system on farmers, farmworkers, and consumers. Readers will encounter new ways of understanding agrarianism, biotechnology, consumer choice, and ethical dilemmas in agriculture.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture 1 Harvey S. James, Jr. PART I IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS 2 How farm consolidation affects farmers and farmworkers 13 James M. MacDonald 3 The real game of chicken: the tournament, broiler contracts and integrator power 31 Douglas H. Constance and Anthony Rainey 4 Input industry influence on farmer decision-making: an example of negative impacts to the environment and farmers 51 Diana Stuart 5 Identities on the family farm: agrarianism, materiality and the ‘good farmer’ 65 Jérémie Forney and Lee-Ann Sutherland PART II IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 6 Impacts of GE crop technologies on farmers 86 Leland L. Glenna and Elizabeth Ransom 7 Agricultural mechanization and farm labor development 102 Amer Ait Sidhoum, Maria Vrachioli and Johannes Sauer 8 The human impact of data bias and the digital agricultural revolution 119 Kelly Bronson, Sarah Rotz and Adrian D’Alessandro 9 Modernizing agriculture through digital technologies: prospects and challenges 138 Emily Duncan, Abdul-Rahim Abdulai and Evan D.G. Fraser PART III IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURE ON SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AND FARM LABORERS 10 ‘Modern’ agriculture and its impact on smallholder farmer livelihoods 163 Katherine A. Snyder 11 The impacts of private standards on smallholder well-being 179 Agni Kalfagianni 12 Fair trade’s impact on smallholders 194 Sarah Lyon 13 The human impact from Indian farmers’ productive but damaging use of pesticides 218 Geoff Kuehne 14 The social protection function of agriculture 233 Damilola Giwa Daramola and Harvey S. James, Jr. 15 Entrenched exploitation: temporary foreign agricultural worker programs in North America 256 Leigh Binford and Janet McLaughlin 16 The impacts of agroecology training within and beyond farmer training 275 Julia M.L. Laforge and Charles Z. Levkoe PART IV BROADER IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURE ON SOCIETY 17 The effects of agrochemicals on humans 297 Ryan E. Galt and Lauren Asprooth 18 How agrarian values affect society 333 Chad L. Christensen 19 How biodiversity loss affects society 352 Roland Ebel, Fabian Menalled, Selena Ahmed, Simone Gingrich, Giulia Maria Baldinelli and Georges F. Félix 20 Ethical issues arising from modern agriculture 377 Harvey S. James, Jr. 21 Finding alternatives in our broken food system: the illusion of choice 399 Lydia Zepeda Index 416

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Book SynopsisThe Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been supporting the incomes of the European Union's agricultural community for half a century. Despite this, there is still no official system in place to track the economic wellbeing of farmers and their families. This book examines the evidence on the overall wealth of farming households, and concludes that in nearly all member states, they are not generally a poor sector of society, with disposable incomes that are similar to, or exceed, the national average. In this updated edition, the author discusses the latest evidence, makes recommendations for gathering better information, and considers the implications for the CAP as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Incomes and Agricultural Policy Chapter 3: Conceptual Issues Chapter 4: Indicators of Income from Agricultural Production Chapter 5: Incomes of Agricultural Households Chapter 6: Wealth Chapter 7: Information and Policy

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the politics and practice of food production and supply in Ethiopia, and their impact on the largely agricultural economy and farming populations, who represent nearly 80 per cent of the country's population. Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive activities among large diasporic populations in the West, the evidence suggests that they were provoked by widespread internal dissatisfaction.Land deals by the Government with foreign investors, the building of vast hydroelectric dams, sugar estates and industry parks, and urban sprawl have put pressure on agricultural, rural areas. Today, dispossessions, drought and social unrest surround fears of the worst food shortages in decades. Examining these developments in Ethiopia's lake region, the author shows how transformations in state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have impacted on a population of smallholder farmers for whom agriculture is not only the mainstay of the economy but a way of life. Getnet Bekele is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, MI, wherehe teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.Trade ReviewWinner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. * . *Richly documented and beautifully written, Getnet Bekele's book merits reading by anyone interested in comparative understanding of agrarian and environmental change, rural development, and food security in Africa and elsewhere. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Ploughing New Ground is a well-written and fascinating study. It is a local history which deepens our understanding of Ethiopian agriculture. Getnet should be congratulated for presenting new and exciting work on the history of agricultural and environmental change in Ethiopia, a subject on which literature is scant. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Landscape Pastoral: The making and remaking of a grassland environment, 1886-1916 Negotiating a Landscape: Continuity and change in a grassland environment, 1917-1941 Blurring the Boundaries: The ascendancy of crop production in a flexible environment, 1942-1955 Fresh Encounters and Morphing Strategies: The changing organization of production in an era of agricultural intervention, 1956-1965 Inputs, Outputs and the Farm: Transformations in the science, politics and praxis of agricultural development, 1966-1974 Competition and Co-existence: Creating space for small- to large-scale farming, 1966-1974 Of Production and Production Relations: Farming in an era of revolutionary change and socialist development, 1975-1991 Vicious Circle: Agricultural development at the time of "revolutionary democracy", 1991-2016 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time even seen by some as 'an elixir of life'. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics of wine? Professor Marks's book is an accessible exploration of the economics of wine, using both basic principles and specialized topics and emphasizing microeconomics and related research.Drawing upon economic themes such as International Trade and Public Choice, Wine and Economics also relates economic reasoning to management issues in wine markets. The discussion ranges from economic fundamentals and wine and government, to the challenge of knowing what is in the bottle and the importance of wine as a cultural good.This novel and comprehensive introduction to the subject is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and anyone interested in wine and the wine industry.Trade Review’Denton Marks's book fills a void in both the economic and the wine-related literature. It offers the economic student insights into the wine world and the wine professionals into economic thinking. Certainly, this is the first 'wine economics' textbook.’ -- Karl Storchmann, New York University, US and Managing Editor, Journal of Wine Economics’What is welcome with Denton's book is its exploration beyond the narrow focus of wine pricing. The outline of how wine fits into key economic processes is illuminating, and the understanding of the political economy of wine is especially helpful. Crucially, the examination of how wine functions as a cultural good is a real expansion of our understanding of its social and economic context, underlining that value is not merely a financial construct but includes intangible, symbolic meaning as well.’ -- Steve Charters, School of Wine and Spirits Business, Burgundy School of Business, France’Most professions show a professional interest in wine, and economics is no exception: it can help us understand how wine markets work. But since economics is considered by many as a rather 'dry' subject, wine can boost student enthusiasm for economics. This book exploits those two interests by helping non-economists understand wine producer and consumer behaviour and helping college students understand economics.’ -- Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide and Australian National University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Relevance of Economics 3. Comparative Advantage and Why We Transact 4. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Consumer Behavior and Demand 5. Some Basic Tools of Economics: Firm Behavior, Supply And Equilibrium in a Market 6. Wine and Government 7. A Closer Look at the Transaction: How Do We Know What Is In the Bottle? 8. Wine as a Cultural Good 9. Conclusion Endnotes References Index

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Book SynopsisMaximum sustainable output offers increased economic and environmental resilience at both the individual farm and wider industry levels.

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