Agribusiness and primary industries

This book examines the dynamics in capital flows, credit markets and growth in South Africa.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of the rapidly evolving field of agribusiness, highlighting the most current issues, concepts, trends and themes in research, practice and policy.

Focusing on the demands of the new innovative, sustainable and inclusive rural development paradigm, the monograph raises the discussion regarding new approaches and success factors that are vital in current rural socio-economic development and policy transformations.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

In March 1913, labor agitator Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and forty-seven other civilians were tried by a military court on charges of murder and conspiracy to murdercharges stemming from violence that erupted during the long coal miners' strike in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek areas of Kanawha County, West Virginia.

This Palgrave Pivot investigates barriers to international agricultural trade caused by a lack of standardized maximum residue levels (MRL) for pesticides.

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries.

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge.

This book aims to bring forth and address the major issues confronting the irrigation sector of India and also to suggest policy pointers to sustain it.

This book provides an introduction to operational research methods and their application in the agrifood and environmental sectors.

This book gives insights into the agricultural policies in several countries located in different continents.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction.

This book, which is the first to be published in the emerging field of farm-level microsimulation, highlights the different methodological components of microsimulation modelling: hypothetical, static, dynamic, behavioural, spatial and macro-micro.

This book addresses the paradox between preponderance of hunger in a continent that is well endowed with fertile agricultural land, plenty of fresh water and a vibrant labor force.

This book details the preparation of USAGE-TERM, a computable general equilibrium model that provides regional economic detail in the USA.

This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean.

This textbook discusses environmental and natural resource economics.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities.

This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector.

This book presents an international review of the modern geo-economy and a scientific take on the geo-economy of the future.

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.

This book explores different aspects of entrepreneurship from both an academic and a commercial point of view.

This book offers an assessment of new opportunities available for the agricultural sector and provides technical assistance to the Greek authorities with regards to its rural development and fishery sector.

The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity.

In the present economic, political, societal and environmental landscape, which is dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of challenges and issues that demand immediate and urgent responses is more intense than ever.

This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This book investigates the birth and evolution of craft breweries around the world.

This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe.

This book provides exclusive information on how agribusinesses could act as the springboard for inclusive economic growth critical for socioeconomic transformation of Africa.

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources.

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This book analyzes the issue of food insecurity in Europe.

Erster und bisher einziger steuerlicher Ratgeber für die aktuell etwa 2 Millionen Eigentümer von Privatwäldern in Deutschland: Privater Waldbesitz erfreut sich immer größerer Beliebtheit; das Thema Wald ist derzeit stark im Fokus.

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

This book seeks to understand the simultaneous economic and political contributors to China's changing agricultural protection levels and the central government's choice of policy instruments to tax or assist farmers.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.

This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.

The Book of Filial Duty - Confucius - Part of the Wisdom of the East series.

This is the first book to focus on farm and rural community management in less favored areas of Japan.

This book of case studies is designed to provide useful information for instructional purposes and for those interested in the management of Asian agribusiness.