Author: Anke K. Scholz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783946552093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
ResourceCultures
Author: Anke K. Scholz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783946552093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783946552093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Doubly Green Revolution
Author: Gordon Conway
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A distinguished scientist here sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. Initially published in 1997 in the United Kingdom, the book is now available in the first edition produced for the Western hemisphere. In it, the author has updated information to reflect current economic indicators. This volume includes a foreword written for the previous edition by Ismail Serageldin of the World Bank. The original Green Revolution produced new technologies for farmers, creating food abundance. A second transformation of agriculture is now required—specifically, Gordon Conway argues, a "doubly green" revolution that stresses conservation as well as productivity. He calls for researchers and farmers to forge genuine partnerships in an effort to design better plants and animals. He also urges them to develop (or rediscover) alternatives to inorganic fertilizers and pesticides, improve soil and water management, and enhance earning opportunities for the poor, especially women.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A distinguished scientist here sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. Initially published in 1997 in the United Kingdom, the book is now available in the first edition produced for the Western hemisphere. In it, the author has updated information to reflect current economic indicators. This volume includes a foreword written for the previous edition by Ismail Serageldin of the World Bank. The original Green Revolution produced new technologies for farmers, creating food abundance. A second transformation of agriculture is now required—specifically, Gordon Conway argues, a "doubly green" revolution that stresses conservation as well as productivity. He calls for researchers and farmers to forge genuine partnerships in an effort to design better plants and animals. He also urges them to develop (or rediscover) alternatives to inorganic fertilizers and pesticides, improve soil and water management, and enhance earning opportunities for the poor, especially women.
Forests and Rural Development
Author: Jürgen Pretzsch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642414044
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the complex challenges and opportunities related to forest-based rural development in the tropics and subtropics. Applying a socio-ecological perspective, the book traces the changing paradigms of forestry in rural development throughout history, summarizes the major aspects of the rural development challenge in forest areas and documents innovative approaches in fields such as land utilization, technology and organizational development, rural advisory services, financing mechanisms, participative planning and forest governance. It brings together scholars and practitioners dealing with the topics from various theoretical and practical angles. Calling for an approach that carefully balances market forces with government intervention, the book shows that forests in rural areas have the potential to provide a solid foundation for a green global economy.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642414044
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the complex challenges and opportunities related to forest-based rural development in the tropics and subtropics. Applying a socio-ecological perspective, the book traces the changing paradigms of forestry in rural development throughout history, summarizes the major aspects of the rural development challenge in forest areas and documents innovative approaches in fields such as land utilization, technology and organizational development, rural advisory services, financing mechanisms, participative planning and forest governance. It brings together scholars and practitioners dealing with the topics from various theoretical and practical angles. Calling for an approach that carefully balances market forces with government intervention, the book shows that forests in rural areas have the potential to provide a solid foundation for a green global economy.
Heart-life in Song
Author: Frances Harrison Marr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Mobility and Locational Disadvantage Within Australian Cities
Author: Christopher Anthony Maher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780644254465
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780644254465
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 3593509016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 3593509016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Food Preferences and Taste
Author: Helen Macbeth
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782381880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782381880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic.
The Fascist Movement in Britain
Author: Robert Benewick
Publisher: London : Allen Lane
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: London : Allen Lane
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
World guide to special libraries
Author: Willemina van der Meer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783598222597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783598222597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Economic Persuasions
Author: Stephen Gudeman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,” persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science. How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life? In this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it. Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,” persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the discipline of economics is no longer seen as a mirror of reality or as a unified science. How should we understand economics and, more broadly, the organization and disorganization of material life? In this book, international scholars from anthropology and economics adopt a rhetorical perspective in order to make sense of material life and the theories about it. Re-examining central problems in the two fields and using ethnographic and historical examples, they explore the intersections between these disciplines, contrast their methods and epistemologies, and show how a rhetorical approach offers a new mode of analysis while drawing on established contributions.