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Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation
Leal Filho, Walter (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools,...
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Derivatives and Development : A Political Economy of Global Finance, Farming, and Poverty
Bush, Sasha Breger - 2012
Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106329
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Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change
Lipper, Leslie (ed.); McCarthy, Nancy (ed.);  … - FAO - 2018
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and … its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates -- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture …?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture …
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Socioeconomics of Agriculture
Mann, Stefan - 2018
, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813049
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Finance for Food : Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance
Köhn, Doris - 2014
The Big Picture: Global Trends Affecting Agricultural Finance -- Institutional and Process Innovations in Serving Rural Clients -- Dealing With Risks in Agricultural Finance -- Using Modern Technology for High-Quality Services in Rural Areas
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350560
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Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
Gatzweiler, Franz W. (ed.); Braun, Joachim von (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692807
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Nourished Planet : Sustainability in the Global Food System
Nierenberg, Danielle (ed.) - Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition - 2018
Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesity paired with...
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Food Security and Sustainability : Investment and Financing along Agro-Food Chains
Mergos, George (ed.); Papanastassiou, Marina (ed.) - 2017
Strategies in Agriculture in OECD Countries (Wilfrid Legg) -- Chapter 4 The Dominant Presence of MNEs in Agro-Food GVCs … Egyptian case (Salma Soliman) -- Chapter 12 Food security, competitiveness and trade: The case of Tunisian agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396323
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Insights into Chinese Agriculture
Zhang Yunhua - 2018
agriculture. It also opens a window for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on agricultural science that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396756
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How to Feed the World
Eise, Jessica (ed.); Foster, Kenneth Alan (ed.) - 2018
By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering...
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