* Gets behind the picture of crisis and collapse in African agriculture
* Shows how farmers successfully manage their most crucial resource
* Exemplary demonstration of how a new approach is needed in development policy and practice
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* How are environmental policies created and once put to effect, why are they so difficult to change despite sometimes becoming detrimental to the environment they are set up to protect?
* African environmental policy is largely controlled by Northe
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Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, inte read more
Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 200 read more
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This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate landdeals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with aspecial focus on the implications for property and labour regimes,labour processes and structures of accumulation. This invo read more
This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarianpolitical economy, political sociology and political ecology.Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from differentparts of the world. The book starts with four key questions ina read more
The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dry read more
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