Primary Industries

Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a st...

Agri-food traditional, regional and typical products are an important resource for agricultural and rural development in many areas of the European...

Hunger, malnutrition, poor health, and deficient food systems are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. While much is known about African food systems ...

When the future of his family''s rope business in Liverpool was threatened at the end of the 1920s Eric Rigby-Jones had to leave his wife and young...

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism, offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food to...

With GIS technology increasingly available to a wider audience on devices from apps on smartphones to satnavs in cars, many people routinely use sp...

Hunger and obesity sit side by side in the world today because a food system dominated by wealth, markets and profits allows those with money to ob...

Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasiz...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a key technology in the food industry that facilitates real-time visibility of items as they move through ...

During the early 1880s, a wave of peasant unrest swept the mountainous Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico. The rebels demanded political autono...

With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern fa...

Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance ...

From barnyard to backyard, lowly hens have flown the country coop and joined the city chicken movement. A new generation of small-acreage farmers r...

The eighteen articles selected for this third volume of the History of the Prairie West series all focus on the agricultural history of the Canadia...

This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own terri...

Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms res...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The federal crop insurance program began in 1938 when Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. The current program, which is adm...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force on January 1, 1994. The overall economic impact of NAFTA is difficult to measure...

This book describes and analyses competitive factors in Brazil affecting U.S. and Brazilian sales of agricultural goods, including grains, soy-bean...

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the quality management, issues and economic implications o...

The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation raised concerns and generated many q...

Amid over a half a century of antagonistic political relations between the United States and Cuba during which commercial ties were largely severed...

The U.S. beef industry has recalled over 23 million pounds of beef owing to contamination from pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (...

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Ra...

The animal sector of agriculture has undergone major changes in the last several decades, a fact that has drawn the attention of policymakers and t...