The Potato Crop Its Agricultural, Nutritional and Social Contribution to Humankind
This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array ...
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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security
This book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing ...
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The Social Metabolism of Spanish Agriculture, 1900–2008 The Mediterranean Way Towards Industrialization
This book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse ...
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The Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Desertification in Central Asia
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on ‘The Socio-economic causes and ...
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The Soils of Israel
Eleven chapters present a concise description of the soils of Israel, including their distribution, chemical, physical mineralogical ...
Lire la suiteThe Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin
This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource ...
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Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
This book examines India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems ...
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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers
This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...
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Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies
Agricultural cooperatives have strong market positions in agri-food industries, in many countries. In recent decades we have ...
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Water Politics and Development Cooperation : Local Power Plays and global Governance
This statement in the most recent Human Development Report articulates a conv- tion that has increasingly gained ground in ...
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White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
This book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong ...
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World Spice Plants
This book addresses the need to disseminate scientific knowledge of the complex world of spice plants to a wide audience ...
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