Agriculture & Related Industries

Did you know that 62% of the food in our supermarkets is not only processed but 'ultra-processed' (ingredients from other foods are combined to mak...

Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation

Written by a team of international researchers, scientists, and academics, Perspectives of World Food and Agriculture 2004 comprises the latest, mo...

This timely volume chronicles and analyses the intersection of rice policies and the pandemic through case studies of a diverse range of Southeast ...

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequence...

In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly...

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequence...

The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that these cash inflows may serve...

In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly...

Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy was advocated in India in 1991 under the supervision of P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime M...

The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures. The essays in this vo...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This book gives details of collections of potato varieties in European Community (EC) countries, in alphabetical order and shows the health status ...

Farm women are virtually absent from the leadership positions which structure agricultural organisations and policy and shape the industry. This bo...

This volume focuses on the 'dairy problem', a complex issue that relates directly to the agricultural debate of the past two decades and that conce...

The central problem to which this book, first published in 1984, is addressed is the transformation of agrarian structure as it historically evolve...

This volume, originally published in 1930, discusses the economics of Russian agriculture during the early 20th century. It analyzes those economic...

With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural...

In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and...

This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results. It starts on firm ground rather than from ab...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offere...

China is particularly dependent upon her agricultural surplus for financing her ambitious industrialization programme, but the performance of the a...