In Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW), dem mit 18 Mill. Einwohnern bevölkerungsreichsten Bundesland Deutschlands, wurden am 1.1.2002 2,6% der landwirtschaftlichen Fläche ökologisch bewirtschaftet. Dabei wiesen die anhand von Daten des Landesamts für Statistik NRW, der Landwirtschaftskammern und der...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Development, Sustainable Development and Agriculture -- 3. Sustainability of Agricultural Systems -- 4. Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries -- 5. Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in High-Income Countries -- 6. Pathways to...

Frontmatter -- AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS / GLOBAL INTERACTIONS -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Capitalist Transformations -- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an Enclave: Labor Control and Worker Resistance -- 4 On...

Mediterranean agriculture is by and large envisaged as a landscape of small farms of high nature value producing worldwide recognisable quality food products that make up the basis of the famous Mediterranean diet and shape Southern European cultures. However, the dynamics developing in the...

This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural investment climate survey made it possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises....