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  • Governance of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems
    Devi Prasad Juvvadi / P Chandra Shekara
    Country Specific Article : 1. Training in the Rural Kenya: Technoserve Approach of Extension 2. Huduma Centres: A One Stop Platform for  Service Delivery in Kenya 3. Common Interest Group: An Approach to  Control Infectious Bursal Disease among Poultry Farmers in Kenya 4. Aeroponics Technique for Seed Potato Production- A Case of Kisima Private Farm in Kenya 5. Delivery of Poul...
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    98,50 €

  • Food Culture
    This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work...
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    37,86 €

  • Food Health
    Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of m...
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    44,55 €

  • Food Research
    Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those me...
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    44,49 €

  • Structure, Agency and Biotechnology
    Aristeidis Panagiotou
    'Structure, Agency, Biotechnology' argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology. ...
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    54,23 €

  • Stir Fry Cookbook
    Olivia Rogers
    Make delicious & healthy stir fries that don't take hours! These recipes are enough to feed your entire family! What if you could still make tasty home-cooked stir fries for your entire family even if you're super busy and have no time? Imagine how much easier it would be if you have a book with step-by-step methods for a bunch of different stir fries! Multi-time best s...
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    10,63 €

  • Real Southern Barbecue
    Kaitland Byrd / Kaitland M. Byrd / Kaitland MByrd
    This book examines how processes and rhetoric surrounding a specific food product-and food culture as a whole-shape the food appearing on our plates and how they impact people’s health and market dynamics. The book takes an in-depth look at barbecue chefs and restaurant owners to triangulate the relationship between producers and their products. It explores the intersection of ...
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    115,76 €

  • Growing Out Loud
    K. Rashid Nuri / KRashid Nuri
    K. Rashid Nuri had a powerful "burning bush" revelation while a student at Harvard. The experience set him on a global food odyssey, managing agricultural operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. Rashid saw, up close, the abuses and inefficiencies of Big Ag. Growing Out Loud is an uncompromising, unapologetic polemic, offering solutions for America's antiquated food...
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    23,91 €

  • Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Sarah Lawson Welsh
    How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ’tradition’ and ’authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglo...
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    163,46 €

  • Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Sarah Lawson Welsh
    How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ’tradition’ and ’authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglo...
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    54,08 €

  • Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
    Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental ...
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    184,33 €

  • Read My Plate
    Deborah R. Geis / Deborah RGeis
    Whether perusing a recipe or learning what a literary character eats, readers approach a text differently when reading about food. Read My Plate: The Literature of Food explores what narrators and characters (in fiction, in performance, and in the popular genre of the 'food memoir') cook and eat. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, the inmates of the Terezin concentration camp, performan...
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    122,46 €

  • Black Food Geographies
    Ashanté M. Reese / Ashanté MReese
    In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents’ navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on...
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    31,91 €

  • Black Food Geographies
    Ashanté M. Reese / Ashanté MReese
    In this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents’ navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese examines the history of the majority-Black Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Based on...
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    127,30 €

  • Modern Moonshine
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    33,21 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary Cities
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa. As well as forming part of a new body of research on secondary urbanization and food security in Africa, the report makes systematic comparisons between the food security situation in this urban corridor and the much larger ...
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    35,31 €

  • Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul
    Carlo Alvaro
    Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal farming is one of the leading causes of environmental degradation. Farming livestock contributes to a large amount of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year; it contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, coral...
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    129,24 €

  • Global Initiatives for Waste Reduction and Cutting Food Loss
    The world population is expected to increase exponentially within the next decade, which means that the food demand will increase and so will waste production. There is a need for effective food waste management as wasted food leads to overutilization of water and fossil fuels and increasing greenhouse gas emissions from the degradation of food. Global Initiatives for Waste Red...
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    255,93 €

  • Gender and Food
    Shelley L. Koch / Shelley Koch / Shelley L. Koch / Shelley LKoch
    Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food. ...
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    108,80 €

  • Gender and Food
    Shelley Koch / Shelley L. Koch / Shelley LKoch
    Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food. ...
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    39,61 €

  • Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies
    This book examines the current and future challenges facing the food and agricultural system and their implications for policymaking at the national and international level.The growth in global population and income is expected to result in increasing demand for food and agricultural raw materials, intensifying concerns over food security and increasing pressure on the planet&#...
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    190,90 €

  • Environmental Invasion and Social Response
    Douglas M. Fraiser / Douglas MFraiser
    As governments, corporations, and settlers race to take the world’s forests for their own, what happens to the indigenous peoples who live there? Are they at the mercy of overwhelming forces, destined to lose livelihood, identity, and respect as they are dispossessed and assimilated? This account of the Dulangan Manobo—an indigenous people of the Philippines whose rainforest ho...
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    31,23 €

  • Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Challenges of the 21st Century
    Raghbendra Jha
    The UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for 'Zero Hunger' has refocused attention on hunger and malnutrition as major challenges for the 21st century and as essential desired goals for human development. This volume provides key insights on how these challenges for food security can be addressed globally and in a number of countries that face these challenges mo...
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    200,65 €

  • FUNDAMENTOS DEL RIEGO
    Gary P Merkley / George H Hargreaves
    Este libro es un texto muy amplio sobre los principios y prácticas del riego de tierras agrícolas con la meta principal de apoyar los esfuerzos de desarrollo tal como se requiere para las tasas actuales de crecimiento de población mundial. El libro fue redactado a lo largo de un período de más de 10 años y la información que contiene se basa en la amplia experiencia de los auto...
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    64,25 €

  • The Politics of Swidden farming
    Debojyoti Das
    ’The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised - a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting the northeastern borderland state of ...
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    165,51 €

  • Re-Orienting Cuisine
    Kwang Ok Kim
    Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time and across space is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity. A dish that originated in B...
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    37,74 €

  • Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
    Olivia Angé
    Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist's gaze. Drawing on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book explores fairs' embeddedness within religious celebration, arguing that barter is addressed as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local ancestors, and thus challenging a widespread view of...
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    163,58 €

  • American Farms, American Food
    Christopher R. Laingen / Christopher RLaingen / John C. Hudson / John CHudson / John Hudson
    American Farms, American Food bridges the gap between agricultural production and food studies allowing readers to learn about both subjects up close and in detail. Beyond that, the book provides background on the domestication, breeding, and development of crop plants and livestock that have become the food we eat. Themes such as the family farm, local food production, organic...
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    54,71 €

  • Ensuring a Square Meal
    Theresa W Devasahayam
    Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the linkages between women and food security at the household, community, national and transnational levels. More broadly, the chapters examine women's co...
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    120,10 €

  • The Soul Food Museum Story
    Chef Kenneth Willhoite
    In the 400-Year History of Soul Food and Hospitality, Chef Dr. Willhoite has left no stone unturned as he takes us on a colorful journey from the coasts of West Africa to the hills and valleys of America.You will be educated, enlightened, enthused and empowered!This book has raised the bar and laid a foundation that will allow the African American contributions to forever be in...
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    13,17 €


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