Macroeconomics, agriculture, and exchange rates
Common Agricultural Policy - long-standing and new paradigms -- Analysis of the European agricultural context -- Correlations, trends and realities in the European agri-food model. "The current evolution of the European economy suggests that in the near future, research in agri…
This book is the product of an international conference hosted by the Women in Agricultural Development (WIAD) Program at the University of Florida in 1986. The purpose of WIAD program is to promote an understanding of gender and its relevance for agricultural development proces…
This book looks at the input-output relations of low-resource agriculture in Africa and shows how the intensification process through the application of modern technologies can work successfully to raise productivity and to sustain production over the long term.
Soil erosion and dryland farming
by Laflen, John M., Tian, Junliang, Huang, Chi-Hua,, Ph. D.
Written to meet the needs of both students and applied researchers, Design of Experiments for Agriculture and the Natural Sciences, Second Edition serves as an introductory guide to experimental design and analysis. Like the popular original, this thorough text provides an under…
"The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 10,000 years ago, bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This settlement in favour …
Language dispersal beyond farming
Farming/language dispersal : food for thought / Martine Robbeets -- Proto-Quechua and proto-Aymara agropastoral terms : reconstruction and contact patterns / Nicholas Q. Emlen and Willem F. H. Adelaar -- Subsistence terms in Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) / Anna Berge -- Lexical recyclin…
"Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world's major language families owe their dispersal to the …
"This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something 'out there' that we adapt to. Instead, it is pa…