Agriculture & Related Industries

Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book co...

Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the...

The post-Soviet period has witnessed Russia's increasing interdependence with other nations in its food trade, as in the economy as a whole. Presid...

Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the ...

Between 1900 and 1990, there were several periods of grain and other food shortages in Russia and the former Soviet Union, some of which reached di...

This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom. The book begins by outlinin...

Did Tsarist Russia's political and industrial backwardness result from its rigid and archaic agrarian structure? Did the Russian revolution stem in...

In an increasingly globalized world, an understanding of the role of international trade is central to the study of agricultural economics and agri...

The questions of population growth and food supply have long been of central concern to economists. The World Food Economy seeks to examine the les...

Both horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book tha...

Both horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book tha...

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxie...

Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant ...

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxie...

Plant genetic diversity is crucial to the breeding of food crops and is therefore a central precondition for food security. Diverse genetic resourc...

The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, the uncertain path of Russia towards a market economy, and the integration of ten Central a...

Liberalization, Crisis and Change in Colombian Agriculture provides an in-depth look at the impact of economic reforms on Latin American agricultur...

In Mali and throughout the Sahel, governments increasingly rely on parastatal organizations to overcome the problems of lagging food production and...

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters t...

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finan...