Agriculture & Food

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807047378Author Mark WinneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 272g

Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural production and food security in Third-World nations. They consider in depth the question of how best to...

Providing a thorough summary of the challenges facing our agricultural industry, this book investigates problems and considers solutions, examining issues relevant to the viability of America's farms. In Agricultural Crisis in America, topics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272639Author Roberto Garcia RuizFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

A journey through British food, from the acclaimed author of The Apple Orchard In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We've been told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet when someone with a clipboard asks us what the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935028362Author Richard JonasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Food First BooksPublisher Food First BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990633716Author Suzanne HanchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Development Resources PressPublisher Development Resources PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702253669Author Nick RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams) 406g

As Africa entered the 1990s, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa declared the continent incapable of feeding at least one-fifth of its peoples. Africa is the only region in the world where per capita food...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997043402Author Bill DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Organic Leaf PressPublisher Organic Leaf PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935028423Author May Ling ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Food First BooksPublisher Food First BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473519605Author Isa Pearl RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Te Ra Aroha PressPublisher Te Ra Aroha PressWeight(grams) 431g

This is the report of a conference called in 1960 to analyze the problem of labor supply in, and its transfer from, the agricultural industry.Book InformationISBN 9780837175843Author Iowa State University,Center for Agricultural & Economic...

As large-scale industrial agriculture comes under increasing scrutiny because of its petroleum- and petrochemical-based input costs and environmentally objectionable consequences, increasing attention has been focused on sustainable, local, and...

Is any food safe? Will mad cow disease kill us all? How many calories are really in your restaurant Caesar salad? Modern consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition, making it difficult for the lay person to know what to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312577377Author Katherine GustafsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g

An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet Union During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix...

In a vast society where environmentally conscious nonfarming voters and consumers have grown to greatly outnumber those directly engaged in agriculture, what happens in agriculture becomes increasingly subject to control by the general society, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639804040Author Bill GuestFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 454g

****A Sunday Times bestseller*** ***A Times Book of the Year 2017*** WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT 'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Cows are as varied as people. They can be...

Do you remember the arrival of the fish finger, the rise and fall of Angel Delight, Vesta curries and Wimpy hamburgers? Did you own a fondue set or host a Tupperware party, or were you starving yourself on the Cabbage Soup Diet? Was life always too short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780263328Author Henk GrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications...

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788532501Author Teodor ShaninFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 350g

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South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own territories, yet progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender Equality, has been reported as slow and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985410303Author Joshua MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Roundtable AGPublisher Roundtable AGWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736262306Author Roger CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Saving the World Before Preakfast PressPublisher Saving the World Before Preakfast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390058174Author George H DaddFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636480466Author Masaharu ShimizuFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 152g

In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838203836Author Daniela BohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem PressWeight(grams) 148g

Small farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas, as sources of occupation and livelihood, factors of socio-economic diversity, cradles of grass-roots innovation and experimentation. Their capacity to adapt and to contribute...

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consumption and eating patterns since the 1950s. The culinary landscape of Britain is explored through...

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354208775Author Kenyon Leech ButterfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 191g

Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables shows how the demand for ethnocultural vegetables on the part of Toronto's South Asian, Chinese, and Afro-Caribbean Canadians is at odds with the corporate food regime. How does that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863351911Author Courtney I P ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research...

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistance the United States government often creates more problems than it solves. These institutions are not in...

Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local cafe to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her...