"All peoples and cultures face environmental issues, but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the fie…
"This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languag…
Improving crop resistance to abiotic stress
This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.
"Agricultural input subsidies were a major feature of development policies in rural economies until the 1980s. Continuing rural poverty with low productivity and fertilizer use in smallholder staple crops has led to their resurgence in Africa. These subsidies are, however, contr…
Among the Wola people in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea, such concepts as capitalism and market state were, and in many senses continue to be, alien. For these people, distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday requirements are the consumers: garden produce…
