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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The industrial agrifood system is in crisis regarding its negative ecological, economic, and social externalities: it is unsustainable on all dimensions. This book documents and engages competing visions and contested discourses of agrifood sustainability.
Using an incremental/reformist...
Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage
Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge. A multiplicity of actors have been enrolled in this process, with the private sector and civil society progressively becoming key components in a global context often described as neoliberalization....
by K. Raman Professor Pillai, R. K. Suresh Dr Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) have come to stay in India. Time has come to take stock of the experiences gained so far in the working of the PRIs in various states. Have we really achieved the goals set up by the 73rd constitutional Amendment while implementing the programme of 'democratic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates...
Feeding a Hungry Planet
Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's...
RSVP
124 questions à propos du savoir-vivre
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2016
124 questions-réponses que l’on se pose au quotidien sur nos relations avec les autres"Mon regard, certes, ne prétend absolument pas arriver au niveau de la recherche sociologique. Mais c’est ma passion pour l’être humain dans tous ses états qui est à l’origine de mon intérêt pour ces...
by Selva Almada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Una no ficción atípica que combina percepciones y recuerdos personales con la investigación de tres femicidios en el interior de la Argentina durante la década del 80 y que revelan, de modo sutil, la ferocidad del machismo y la indefensión de las mujeres pobres.
«Tres adolescentes de...
Inseguros
El rol de los medios y la respuesta política frente a la violencia.De Blumberg..
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Investigación y análisis del problema de la inseguridad, tanto desde la perspectiva de casos emblemáticos como del contexto social general.
A más de diez años del caso Blumberg, el problema de la inseguridad continúa entre las primeras preocupaciones sociales, mediáticas y políticas...
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectricity plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê for eight months of each year, during a season called Yankwa. Vital...
by Nataliya Tikhonova
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Presenting the findings of a major research project funded by the EU (INTAS), this key volume investigates the regional, ethnic and socio-cultural aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Russia in recent years. In-depth household interviews and survey data allowed teams from the UK, Denmark and...
by Laurence Bérard, Marie Cegarra, Marcel Djama
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
The knowledge of nature held by autochthonous and local communities has been the subject of international talks, notably on biodiversity, but has primarily been studied from an autochthonous angle. French experience of conserving and promoting local know-how, which is the subject of this book, is...
Latino Heartland
Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as “terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs,...
Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture
The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. This...
The Field by the River
Uncovering the Nature of Country Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The Field By The River is a thought-provoking and enchanting work; a joyous, charming celebration of the fragile, interconnected ecosystem that can be found if we only take the time to part the leaves, look under the mosses or overturn a stone.