The Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Republic of Mozambique review the country’s macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, and external financing needs and major sources of financing. It is essential to guarantee that...

Consumer ethnocentrism plays a key role in the markets of developed countries when governments take protectionist measures due to economic crises and downturns. Consumer ethnocentrism appears to be stronger in relation to the choice and purchase of food and beverages. The purpose of the current...

The abandonment of indigenous and traditional ways of relating to the landscape and making use of the environment are historically tied, since the epoch of conquest, to the imposition of development models that respond to foreign demands. Social scientists have variously integrated the concept...

This book links political and economic sociology examining how postsocialist property changes are rooted in the socialist past and how they relate to the meaning and practices of transition states and their capacity for sustainable economic development. It raises the issue of the applicability...

Power, food, and agriculture: implications for farmers, consumers, and communities / Mary K. Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and Douglas H. Constance -- Chickenizing American farmers, or "Sometimes I feel like a galley slave" / Donald D. Stull -- Industrial chicken meat and the good life in...