Although the Government has introduced a number of crop-oriented schemes to improve the output of various slow growth foodgrain crops such as pulses and coarse cereals, the success of these schemes will largely depend on the extent of adoption as the farmers grow these crops on poor and...

Front Cover -- Advances in Food Security and Sustainability -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: A Food Systems Perspective on Food and Nutrition Security in Australia, Indonesia, and Vanuatu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief Introduction to Food and Agriculture in...

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Cuba embarked upon a transformation of the agricultural sector that has been hailed by some observers as a model of socially equitable and ecologically sustainable agriculture. Cuba shifted from an export-oriented, chemical-intensive agricultural development strategy...