Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436221
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 49 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge if digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: Matilda Baraibar Norberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000903478
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth; used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social-ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from inputs in production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes with a discussion of the main challenges and contradictions of the current soy regime that could trigger its rupture and end. This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436248
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 91 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 194843623X
Category : Soybean products
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 189 photographs and illustrations, many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 115 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436469
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 325 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436329
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1537
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 20 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436191
Category : Soy proteins
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 25 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: Harinder P. S. Makkar
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Book Description
This publication covers a wide array of co-products.
Author: Andrew Barkley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136779000
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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This book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, natural resources and other sectors. The result is an agricultural economics textbook that provides students and instructors with a clear, up-to-date, and straightforward approach to learning how a market-based economy functions, and how to use simple economic principles for improved decision making. While the primary focus of the book is on microeconomic aspects, agricultural economics has expanded over recent decades to include issues of macroeconomics, international trade, agribusiness, environmental economics, natural resources, and international development. Hence, these topics are also provided with significant coverage.