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...

This book is the first of two companion volumes by these authors on trade shocks in controlled economies. Both theoretically innovative and drawing...

The Syrian Refugee Resilience Plan (SRRP) is FAO's guiding document to support the Government of Turkey in addressing the needs of Syrians under Te...

The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Thr...

Published in 1954, this survey of Georgia agriculture is chronologically divided into three sections. “The End of the Golden Age, 1850–1865,” descr...

Over the course of a century, the Canadian Prairies went from being the breadbasket of the world to but one of many grain-growing regions in a vast...

This book, first published in 1990, examines the history and development of the world sugar industry, and the changes that took place in the late t...

This work provides a survey and analysis of Mexico's agrarian reform, covering topics such as the agricultural provisions of NAFTA. The book also d...

Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian...

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundi...

This work provides a survey and analysis of Mexico's agrarian reform, covering topics such as the agricultural provisions of NAFTA. The book also d...

Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundi...

Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History AssociationIn the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian...

Vegan or carnivore? Vegetarian or gluten-free? Keto or Mediterranean? Fasting or Paleo? Our relationship to food is filled with confusion and insec...

The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the e...

Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice. Using thr...

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the ...

Describes the elements and use of cash flow planning as a vital aspect of economically successful farming

The Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism provides comprehensive and cutting-edge insights into global tea tourism. With contributions from leading sch...

The story of how Americans came to drink milk For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food," as...