Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Agrekon
Author: African Economic Development
Author: Mary E. LassanyiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa
Author: Richard A. SikoraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429686633
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges place great pressure on food security, agriculture, water availability and other natural resources, as well as impacting biodiversity. Drawing on case studies from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book consider these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering key areas in constraints to production, the most important building blocks of good farming practices, and established and emerging technologies. This book will be a valuable support for informing new policies and processes aimed at improving food production and security and developing sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa. This informative volume will be key reading for those interested in agricultural science, African studies, rural studies, development studies and sustainability. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and agricultural practitioners. This title has been made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CCBY-NC-ND) license and can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429401701
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Author: Rural Development and the Construction of New Markets
Author: Paul HebinckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317753771
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly emerging markets. Rural Development and the Construction of New Markets analyses newly constructed markets as nested markets. Although they are specific market segments that are nested in the wider commodity markets for food, they have a different nature, different dynamics, a different redistribution of value added, different prices and different relations between producers and consumers. Nested markets embody distinction viz-a-viz the general markets in which they are embedded. A key aspect of nested markets is that these are constructed in and through social struggles, which in turn positions this book in relation to classic and new institutional economic analyses of markets. These markets emerge as steadily growing parts of the farmer populations are dedicating their time, energy and resources to the design and production of new goods and services that differ from conventional agricultural outputs. The speed and intensity with which this is taking place, and the products and services involved, vary considerably across the world. In large parts of the South, notably Africa, farmers are ‘structurally’ combining farming with other activities. By contrast, in Europe and large parts of Latin America farmers have taken steps to generate new products and services which exist alongside ongoing agricultural production. This book not only discusses the economic rationales and dynamics for these markets, but also their likely futures and the threats and opportunities they face.
The relationship between farm size and efficiency in south african agriculture
Author: Johan Van ZylPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultura - Sudafrica
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Author: Benjamin KarikariPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832546471
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
International Bibliography of Economics
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic SciencePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415262361
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
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Author: Advances in Management, Business and Technological Systems
Author: Irina SamoylenkoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303120803X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Economic development, social sustainability, and environmental protection play a major role in terms of efforts for innovation, digitalization, business, and global development. Today, nations all over the world attempt to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns. Combining empirical and theoretical information, this book demonstrates advanced initiatives and concrete examples from universities, research institutes, and companies, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development of a wide range of fields. The major focus in the book is the promotion of quality of life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security. Additionally, the importance of digital technologies, business policy, social aspects, and corporate governance in ensuring sustainable regional development is studied. This book is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners, and members of governmental agencies and private companies.