Agriculture and Food Books

New and Published Books

1. Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies

   Edited by M. Dinesh Kumar, M.V.K. Sivamohan, Nitin Bassi

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

   This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies. The book focuses primarily on India, a fast developing economy, whose natural resource base comprising land and water supporting agricultural production is not only under enormous stress, but also...

   Published February 14th 2015 by Unknown
2. Food Sovereignty in International Context

   Discourse, politics and practice of place

   Edited by Amy Trauger

   Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

   Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has...

   Published January 26th 2015 by Routledge
3. Coffee Agroecology

   A New Approach to Understanding Agricultural Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development

   By Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer

   Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. It draws on the authors' own research conducted over the last twenty...

   Published January 25th 2015 by Unknown
4. Food Utopias

   Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community

   Edited by Paul V. Stock, Michael Carolan, Christopher Rosin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

   Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements – including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty – consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency...

   Published January 14th 2015 by Routledge
5. Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement

   Reclaiming control

   By Priscilla Claeys

   Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

   Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by...

   Published January 8th 2015 by Routledge
6. Ecocultures

   Blueprints for Sustainable Communities

   Edited by Steffen Böhm, Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Jules Pretty

   The world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being and...

   Published December 8th 2014 by Routledge
7. Progress in Agricultural Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In the second half of the twentieth century, significant changes were occurring within the agricultural industry, including an increase in efficiency and government intervention, as well as expanded and more complicated patterns of trade. This comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, reflects...

   Published December 3rd 2014 by Routledge
8. Progress in Rural Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Although traditional areas of study such as agriculture and the land-use patterns of the countryside remained important, scholars also began...

   Published December 3rd 2014 by Routledge
9. Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life

   Interdisciplinary perspectives

   Edited by Karen Lykke Syse, Martin Lee Mueller

   Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

   What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand...

   Published December 2nd 2014 by Unknown
10. Biodiversity, Access and Benefit-Sharing

    Global Case Studies

    By Daniel F. Robinson

    The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications. Many countries are preparing to implement the protocol through national research permit systems and/or biodiversity laws. Yet there is still considerable confusion about how to...

    Published November 10th 2014 by Unknown