Agricultural Standards / The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System, Bingen Jim, Busch Lawrence

Автор: Thottathil Sapna E.
Название: India`s Organic Farming Revolution: What It Means for Our Global Food System
ISBN: 1609382773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382773
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Should you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s not organic? A lot of consumers who would like to do the right thing for their health and the environment are asking such questions.Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it—what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in southern India, she shows us a place where the so-called “Green Revolution” program of hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and rising pesticide use had failed to reduce hunger while it caused a cascade of economic, medical, and environmental problems. Farmers burdened with huge debts from buying the new seeds and chemicals were committing suicide in troubling numbers. Farm labourers suffered from pesticide poisoning and rising rates of birth defects. A sharp fall in biodiversity worried environmental activists, and everyone was anxious about declining yields of key export crops like black pepper and coffee.In their debates about how to solve these problems, farmers, environmentalists, and policymakers drew on Kerala’s history of and continuing commitment to grassroots democracy. In 2010, they took the unprecedented step of enacting a policy that requires all Kerala growers to farm organically by 2020. How this policy came to be and its immediate economic, political, and physical effects on the state’s residents offer lessons for everyone interested in agriculture, the environment, and what to eat for dinner. Kerala’s example shows that when done right, this kind of agriculture can be good for everyone in our global food system.

Автор: Hofmann-Wellenhof B., Lichtenegger H., Collins J.
Название: Global Positioning System / Theory and Practice
ISBN: 3211835342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783211835340
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This new edition adds the most recent advances in GPS technology, although the overall structure essentially conforms to the former editions. Furthermore, the augmentation of GPS by satellite-based and ground-based systems leading to future Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is discussed.

Автор: Nijs Luc
Название: Handbook of Global Agricultural Markets
ISBN: 113730233X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137302335
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the international agriculture business. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, looking at the issues, opportunities and investable themes in the global agricultural space, combining research and practical tools.

Автор: Kym Anderson
Название: Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security
ISBN: 1137471689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137471680
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international food prices.

Название: Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective
ISBN: 1138901903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138901902
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book uses a global history approach in order to reach a greater understanding of the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparisons over time and space. The book seeks to identify key factors for agricultural transformation, through the use of micro level case studies, and to assess their importance in a global perspective.

Автор: Norwood F. Bailey, Calvo-Lorenzo Michelle S., Lanc
Название: Agricultural and Food Controversies: What Everyone Needs to Know
ISBN: 0199368422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199368426
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this book agricultural researchers present both sides of heavily debated agricultural and food issues. They answer questions and explain scholarly and scientific research on topics such as organic food, the safety of pesticides, livestock living conditions, the use of antibiotics in livestock intended for consumption, the effect of agriculture on the environment, and more.