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1. Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

   Themes and Case Studies

   Edited by Marc Cohen, Melinda Smale

   Series: Development in Practice Books

   This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
2. Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development

   Edited by Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Melinda Smale

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a new and rapidly expanding subfield at the interface of environmental/ecological, agricultural and development economics, the...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge