Agrobiodiversity provides most of our food through our interaction with crops and domestic animals. Future global food security is firmly anchored in sound, science-based management of agrobiodiversity. This book presents key concepts of agrobiodiversity management, critically reviewing...

"Foreword" -- "Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "The Big Ideas" -- "Share of Government Expenditure on Agriculture" -- "Definitions" -- "Defining Countries by National Income Level and Geographic Location" -- "Poverty" -- "Small...

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career interest in the economics of technical and institutional change. At both a theoretical and empirical level, their analysis of "induced innovation" provides a solid foundation for understanding how and why technologies and...

Climate Variability and the Global Harvest provides a comprehensive coverage of the interactions between the major climate oscillations - especially the El Niño -Southern Oscillation - and climate change, and agriculture. It describes climate system processes, effects of the major oscillations...