This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food and agriculture, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
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By Luz Cecilia García, Naga Raju Maddela, Freddy Zambrano Gavilanes, Carolina Aguilar Duarte
November 14, 2024
This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop. Theobroma cacao is an important species originating in the Ecuadorian Amazon and whose product chocolate is consumed worldwide. Cacao cultivation is an industry supporting over ten ...
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By Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
September 04, 2024
This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop...
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By Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Dzodzi Tsikata
August 26, 2024
This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective. Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for ...
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By Jasmeet Kour, Vishal Sharma, Imtiyaz Khanday
August 26, 2024
This book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops to understand how they are produced, the impacts on the agricultural industry, and their potential for improving food security. The production of GM crops has now become an invaluable asset in the agricultural toolbox. With a ...
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By Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow
July 04, 2024
This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development ...
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By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
May 27, 2024
This book presents evidence-based research on climate-neutral and resilient farming systems and further provides innovative and practical solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the impact of climate change. Intensive farming systems are a significant source of greenhouse ...
By Ada Górna
April 01, 2024
This book examines the role and position of urban agriculture in the spatial and functional structure of cities in the Global South. In the face of dynamic urbanisation and negative consequences of climate change, one of the key challenges is not only how to provide food for the ever-growing urban ...
By Stuart W. Bunting
March 29, 2024
This book provides an introduction to sustainable aquaculture practices, focusing on how we develop social, economic and environmental resilience. Aquaculture has seen phenomenal worldwide growth in the past 50 years, and many people view it as the best solution for the provision of high-quality ...
By Alissa Bilfield
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on the often intertwined industries of coffee and tea, using accounts of single producer communities to highlight the transformation from plantation-style colonial agriculture towards systems that now claim to produce social and environmental benefits from the farm to the cup. ...
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By Zannie Langford
December 19, 2023
This book explores the rapidly changing seaweed industry in Indonesia, the largest global producer of carrageenan-bearing seaweeds. Seaweed production in Indonesia has grown exponentially over the last twenty years, and rural communities across the country have embraced this new livelihood activity...
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By Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, Kay Muir Leresche
December 01, 2023
This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges. The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an approach that has successfully enabled African ...
By Mark Tilzey, Fraser Sugden
September 27, 2023
This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South. In this companion volume to Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. Wolf, the authors further ...