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  • The Social Archaeology of Food
    Christine A. Hastorf / Christine AHastorf
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    43,77 €

  • Catfish Dream
    Julian Rankin
    Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities of food and subsistence affect the everyday lives of Delta farmers and the people there. E...
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    22,35 €

  • Catfish Dream
    Julian Rankin
    Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities of food and subsistence affect the everyday lives of Delta farmers and the people there. E...
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    94,75 €

  • Human Factors in Cotton Culture
    Rupert B. Vance / Rupert BVance
    This volume presents the actual conditions faced by the cotton farmer of the South. Victim of the one-crop system, preyed upon by the weather, the weevil, the market, and politics, his lot is a speculative one. Vance analyzes the cotton culture complex shrewdly, sympathetically, and soundly. His book is a rare combination of sound economics and human interests.Originally publis...
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    76,95 €

  • Aguas en disputa
    Ismael Muñoz / Ismael Muñoz / María Teresa Oré
    Este libro es un estudio sobre lo que implican las formas de capitalismo contemporáneo en el Perú para el patrimonio ecológico del país, en diálogo con la literatura sobre extractivismo en América Latina. Su singularidad e importancia radican en que se enfoca no solo en la relación entre agua y políticas públicas, sino también en el vínculo entre las formas de poder y la natura...
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    15,42 €

  • Strategy for Promoting Safe and Environment-Friendly Agro-Based Value Chains in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Siem Reap Action Plan, 2018-2022
    Asian Development Bank
    This report discusses opportunities for safe and environment-friendly agriculture products in the Greater Mekong Subregion and highlights the Siem Reap Action Plan, 2018–2022.As the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has made considerable progress in food security, addressing health, safety, and environmental concerns is also essential. The strategy and action plan will strengthen ...
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    24,80 €

  • Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest
    Barbara J Roth / Barbara J. Roth / Barbara JRoth
    How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of answers to these questions, Barbara Roth synthesizes data from both CRM and academic research to explore the emergence and imp...
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    58,56 €

  • Burgundy
    Marion Demossier
    Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terroir, and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. It demystifies the terroir ideology by providing a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept. While the Burgundian mo...
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    149,76 €

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
    Paul Sutter
    Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's 'Little Grand Canyon,' preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade...
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    34,10 €

  • Organic Resistance
    Venus Bivar
    France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass produ...
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    127,05 €

  • The Spirit Of Agriculture
    Paul Hanley
    A series of fascinating essays looking at the importance of agriculture from a Bahá'í perspective.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Agriculture and Religion: A Necessary UnityPaul HanleyAgriculture in the World’s Religions: An OverviewP.J. StewartThis Vital and Important Matter: A Survey of the Bahá’í Writings on AgriculturePaul HanleyThe Involvement of the Central Figures of the Bahá’í Faith...
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    40,29 €

  • Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910
    Uri D. Herscher
    Brook Farm, Oneida, Amana, and Nauvoo are familiar names in American history. Far less familiar are New Odessa, Bethlehem-Jehudah, Cotopaxi, and Alliance—the Brook Farms and Oneidas of the Jewish people in North America. The wealthy, westernized leaders of late nineteenth-century American Jewry and a member of the immigrating Russian Jews shared an eagerness to 'repeal' the le...
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    32,67 €

  • Remaking the Rural South
    Robert Hunt Ferguson
    This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two ...
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    72,17 €

  • Religion, regulation, consumption
    Johan Fischer / John Lever
    This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. ...
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    157,61 €

  • Food and Place
    Fernando JBosco
    This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don’t we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? ...
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    62,95 €

  • The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make superma...
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    36,15 €

  • Coffee
    Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry offers a definitive guide to the many rich dimensions of the bean and the beverage around the world. Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee’s history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for exa...
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    49,34 €

  • The Way It Was
    Peter Forrestal / Ray Jordan
    The Margaret River region of Australia’s south-west is internationally renowned for its award-winning wines. There are now more than 200 wineries, predominantly boutique style, in the region, producing more than 20% of Australia’s premium wine market. The Way It Was tells the story of the early days of the region’s wine industry, from the first plantings by Dr Tom Cullity in 1...
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    35,45 €

  • Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Juliana Ngwira / Liam Riley
    Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi’s capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the di...
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    36,57 €

  • Famine in European History
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    37,65 €

  • Famine in European History
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    119,90 €

  • GMOs, Consumerism and the Global Politics of Biotechnology
    Despite sustained continental and national struggles for autonomy, sovereignty and independence in postcolonial Africa, the continent is increasingly embattled by the forces of globalisation which threaten African identity that is at the core of African struggles for continental and national unity. Situating the debates in the contemporary discourses on decoloniality, global co...
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    39,40 €

  • Exploring the Global Competitiveness of Agri-Food Sectors and Serbia’s Dominant Presence
    Drago Cvijanović / Svetlana Ignjatijević
    The agricultural and food sectors have developed into a prominent industry, impacting economic markets on an international scale. In certain regions, there is a significant potential for creating increased competitive advantage in these business areas. Exploring the Global Competitiveness of Agri-Food Sectors and Serbia’s Dominant Presence: Emerging Research and Opportunities i...
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    216,27 €

  • The Great Famine and Mussels
    Michael Crowley
    The starvation, disease, and death caused by the Great Famine (1845–49) could have been greatly alleviated, if not totally averted, had the people of Ireland known about mussel farming and the abundant supply of this high-protein food source that could have been harvested in the bays and estuaries all around the Irish coast. The causes of the Great Famine, both immediate and in...
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    44,30 €

  • The Great Famine and Mussels
    Michael Crowley
    The starvation, disease, and death caused by the Great Famine (1845–49) could have been greatly alleviated, if not totally averted, had the people of Ireland known about mussel farming and the abundant supply of this high-protein food source that could have been harvested in the bays and estuaries all around the Irish coast. The causes of the Great Famine, both immediate and in...
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    27,83 €

  • Solving the Problem of 'Agriculture, Farmer, and Rural Area' by Rule of Law
    Ding Guomin / Gao Jianxun / Liu Yun
    'Three Agriculture-related problems' is a social problem of public concern in China since its reform and opening up program. Nowadays, people from all walks of life have realized the seriousness of the problem, the urgency of solving the problem and the great significance of solving the problem to the deepening of socialist economic market. So far, there have been great achieve...
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    141,75 €

  • Establishing Food Security and Alternatives to International Trade in Emerging Economies
    Vasily Erokhin
    The process of food production and distribution has grown into a global corporate system in recent years. This has caused significant impacts on sustainability on an international scale, particularly for developing nations. Establishing Food Security and Alternatives to International Trade in Emerging Economies is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on ...
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    271,44 €

  • 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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    165,46 €

  • Rice
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    45,24 €

  • Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization
    Casey Ryan Kelly
    Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines how food television represents cultural difference in an age of globalization and multiculturalism. Casey Ryan Kelly analyzes popular food television programs to illustrate how representations of food normalize global economic, political, and cultural inequalities. ...
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    129,45 €


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