Forthcoming Agriculture & Related Industries Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Food Chains: Quality, Safety and Efficiency in a Challenging World

   Edited by George Baourakis, Prodromos Kalaitzis, Konstadinos Mattas

   Food Chains: Quality, Safety and Efficiency in a Challenging World addresses the many issues facing European food producers and other food chain stakeholders, who endeavour to improve their competitive position in a highly competitive world food market. The Food Chain is one of the main...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Agro-Ecological Intensification of Agricultural Systems in the African Highlands

   Edited by Bernard Vanlauwe, Piet van Asten, Guy Blomme

   With growing population and food security risks, there is an urgent need to increase sustainable agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. This book addresses the issue of agricultural intensification in the humid highland areas of Africa. Its framework is built on the activities...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets

   Bridging the Gender Gap in Eastern and Southern Africa

   Edited by Jemimah Njuki, Pascal Sanginga

   This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector

   Crisis, Resilience and Restructuring

   Edited by Steven Wolf, Alessandro Bonanno

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   For the last three decades, the Neoliberal regime, emphasising economic growth through deregulation, free trade and the role of the private sector, has shaped production and consumption processes in agriculture and food. More recently social instability and protest, economic recessions,...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Sustainable Food Systems

   Building a New Paradigm

   Edited by Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to contruct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk

   By John Williams

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   Price is the key linkage between buyers and sellers in a commodity supply chain, so that managing price risk is vital for the producers' survival. In this book the author shows that managing price risk for agricultural products is feasible and that price risk management strategies...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Metrics for Agricultural Sustainability

   By Marty D. Matlock

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   The confusing way in which sustainable agriculture has been defined and measured is clarified in this comprehensive volume, which provides an inventory of the metrics for sustainable agriculture from cradle to the farm gate, organized by media and scale. Example metrics include change in soil...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
8. Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture

   The Social Costs of Eating Fresh

   Edited by Jörg Gertel, Sarah Ruth Sippel

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe and North Africa. This book is the...

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
9. Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability

   By Molly E. Brown

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine how weather and...

   To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
10. Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods

    Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya

    By Kiah Smith

    Fair and ethical trade is often criticized for being highly gendered, and for institutionalising the ethical values of consumers, the priorities of NGOs and governments, and most of all, food retailers. But little is known about how women smallholder farmers experience diverse ethical...

    To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge