Section 1. Africa’s Agricultural Renaissance -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The imperative of investing in agriculture to catalyze national development -- Chapter 3. The Current State of African Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Agriculture-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa: Theory and...

Introduction -- Consumption economies of scale and Engel equivalence scales -- Socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Sri Lankan households -- Link between income and economies of scale -- Economies of scale in home-grown food consumption -- Implications of access to electricity on...

Introduction: Solutions for managing food waste -- Household food waste – how to avoid it? An integrative review -- Nudging in food waste management: Where sustainability meets cost-effectiveness -- Managerial practices of reducing food waste in supermarkets -- The evolution of the German...

Part1 Foundations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Beyond Global Supply Chains -- Chapter 2: Supply Chains As Disruption -- Chapter 3: Agri-Investment Cashing In On Covid-19 -- Part2 Production -- Chapter 4: Putting The Crisis To Work -- Chapter 5: Going Against The Grain In The West Australian...

Chapter 1: Introduction and Key Findings -- Chapter 2; Sustainability of Agriculture: Energy Use and Climate Change Mitigation Issues -- Chapter 3: Modelling Production Technology for Development of Agricultural Sector -- Chapter 4: Structural Dynamics in Agriculture -- Chapter 5: Footprint of...

Today, nutrition is mainly discussed under nutritional, medical-health or ideological aspects (e.g. vegetarianism, veganism, etc.). Although the food industry represents one of the most important markets, questions of food production, agriculture, food trade and biodiversity are mostly discussed...

1: Introduction and Rethinking Contract Farming -- 2: Punjab: An Interesting place to study Agrarian Change -- 3: Understanding the Social Relations of Contract Farming -- 4: Stating the (not so) obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India -- 5: Understanding CF: CF as a...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Evaluating Agricultural Value Chains on CISS-F Framework -- Chapter 3: Decoding Value Chains of Tomatoes, Onions and Potatoes (TOP) -- Chapter 4: Towards an Efficient Banana and Mango Value Chains in India -- Chapter 5: Analysis of Grapes and Pomegranates...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected...

Preface -- Foreword (Gordon Rausser) -- Introduction (Siwa Msangi) -- Part I: Applied Methods for Agricultural Production and Sector Modeling -- Towards Econometric Mathematical Programming for Policy Analysis (Bruno Henry de Frahan) -- Soil and Crop Choice (Peter Berck and Lunyu Xie) -- Spatial...