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  • The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security

    Edited by Sergio Gomez y Paloma, Laura Riesgo, Kamel Louhichi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Edited by Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Read more

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  • Africa First!

    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    Edited by Prabhu Pingali, Robert E. Evenson ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Agricultural Economics
    Advances in agriculture offer many countries the best and only chance of reducing poverty. Yet economic growth and population increases are driving higher demand for food and rising real prices. What solutions have successfully promoted agriculture? This volume examines national and international food agriculture policies and how they enhance agricultural productivity growth. It provides unique ... Read more

    $145.59 CAD

  • World Livestock: Transforming the Livestock Sector through the Sustainable Development Goals

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The publication is intended to serve as a reference framework for Member States as they move forward to realize livestock's potentially major contribution to the Agenda 2030.For decades, the livestock debate has focused on how to increase production in a sustainable manner. However, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has shifted the emphasis from fostering sustainable production per se ... Read more

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  • Food Policy for Developing Countries

    The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems

    by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II ...
    Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018: Addressing the Threat from Climate Variability and Extremes for Food Security and Nutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The worsening situation in Africa is due to difficult global economic conditions and, in many countries, conflict and climate-related disasters, sometimes in combination. Economic growth slowed in 2016 due to weak commodity prices, in particular for oil and minerals. Food insecurity has worsened in countries affected by conflict, often exacerbated by drought or floods, and in Southern and Eastern ... Read more

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  • Land Use and Food Security in 2050: a Narrow Road

    Agrimonde-Terra

    by Chantal le Mouël, Marie de Lattre-Gasquet, Olivier Mora ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    After a first foresight study on ‘World food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde), CIRAD and INRA have turned their attention to a new foresight exercise on ‘Land use and food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde-Terra). This new study seeks to highlight levers that could modify ongoing land-use patterns for improved food and nutrition security.Agrimonde-Terra proposes a trend analysis on the global context, ... Read more

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  • How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?

    A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education and climate change to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth

    Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

    by Niek Koning ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2022: The Geography of Food and Agricultural Trade: Policy Approaches for Sustainable Development

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2022 (SOCO 2022) discusses how trade policies, based on both multilateral and regional approaches, can address today's challenges for sustainable development. Trade policies in food and agriculture should aim to safeguard global food security, address the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives, and strengthen the resilience of the ... Read more

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  • The State of Food and Agriculture 2017. Leveraging Food Systems for Inclusive Rural Transformation

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report presents strategies that can leverage the potential of food systems to become the engine of inclusive economic development and rural prosperity in low-income countries. It analyses the structural and rural transformations now under way, and examines the opportunities and challenges they present to millions of small-scale food producers. It shows how an "agroterritorial" planning ... Read more

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