Forests and peasant politics in modern France
"Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation. The Alps, Pyrenees, and Massif Central mountains were fragile and degraded, scientific experts determined, and the salvation of the mountains (for the benefit o…
"This volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security issues in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition - it accounts for nearly one-third of food insecure people on the…
"This volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security issues in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition - it accounts for nearly one-third of food insecure people on the…
The 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…
Introduction: Subsistence citizenship -- Part I: The frames of subsistence in Singida: cosmology, ethnography, history -- Hunger in relief -- The unpredictable grace of the sun -- Part II: The power of the poor on the threshold of subsistence -- We shall meet at the pot of Ugali…
"In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines…