To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where…
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"We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, proposes a radical transformation of our agrifood system. He argues that agriculture must be understood as part of global biodive…
The handbook of food research
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The last twenty years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of…
Past attempts to answer this question have ranged widelyfrom less than 1 billion to more than 1,000 billion - one sign that there is no single right answer. More than half of the estimates, however, fall within a much narrower range: between 4 billion and 16 billion. In any case…
This volume reviews the major theories and critically examines alternative explanations for famine, describing their implications for preventive policies and corrective interventions.
Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformati…
This product is not available separately, it is only sold as part of a set. There are 750 products in the set and these are all sold as one entity.
In this book attention is paid to the changing outlook of man on agriculture and food. This resulted in a different attitude, which led to industrialization, internalization and food crisis. The role of women and rural societies is examined and the modern ways to escape from the…
Food, from cultivation to consumption, provides the chief link between humankind and the "natural" environment. This book analyzes the apparently opposed imperatives of political economy and sustainability.
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
