Agriculture and Food
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African Perspectives on Agroecology
Seed embodies life, power, and culture. From Africa’s deserts and drylands to its mighty river systems and tropical forests, from those growing a multiplicity of grains, legumes, and vegetables, to others struggling to produce enough to feed their families, seed provides the mainstay for the contine...
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Peasants
Teodor Shanin, Alexander Nikulin, Irina Trotsuk, Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
This book represents two great genres of world literature – a kind of propaedeutic ‘ABC of Cooperation’ and a kind of ‘Cooperative Manifesto’. In these insightful works, written and published a hundred years ago, Chayanov presents a fascinating vision of the struggle of the Russian, and internationa...
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Fertile Ground
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overco...
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards Arabic 3rd edition
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-base... -
Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias Tercera edición
El Manual de las Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias (LEGS) se centra en las comunidades ganaderas afectadas por crisis humanitarias. Sustentado en las mejores prácticas basadas en la evidencia, el manual ayuda a profesionales del sector a diseñar e implementar respuest...
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Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage Troisième édition
Le manuel des Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage (LEGS) est axé sur les communautés d’éleveurs affectées par des crises humanitaires. En s’appuyant sur les meilleures pratiques à partir de données probantes, le manuel aide les praticiens à concevoir et mettre en oeuvre des interv...
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Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements
This book is the first study of the new transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) from their perspective. Merging scholarship with activism through a methodology of observant participation, it explores how TAMs strategize within the global governance of agriculture to confront neoliberal aims of expan...
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Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco
This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best features of radical academic and political activist traditions, despite the many contradictions and challenges that this entails. The role pla...
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards 3rd edition
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) target livestock-owning communities affected by humanitarian crises. Drawing on international evidence-based best practice, LEGS supports practitioners to design and implement emergency responses that protect and rebuild livestock-base... -
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development
Shibaji Bose, Roopa Gogineni, Natasha Maru, Tahira Mohamed, Michele Nori, Linda Pappagallo, Giulia Simula, Masresha Taye, Palden Tsering
In the drylands and mountains where pastoralists live, uncertainty is everywhere. In these settings, negotiating access to resources, navigating volatile markets, making use of varying social relations in times of stress, and responding to conflict and complex political dynamics is essentia...