This code of practice is intended to raise awareness of the hazards and risks associated with agriculture and promote their effective management and control; to help prevent occupational accidents and diseases and improve the working environment in practice; to encourage governments, employers,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Taking Root -- I An Unjust Food System -- 1 Growing and Producing Food -- 2 Accessing Food -- 3 Consuming Food -- 4 Food Politics -- 5 The Food System Goes Global -- II Food Justice Action and Strategies -- 6 Growing Justice -- 7...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Linking Places of Production and Consumption -- Chapter 1: Going Bananas -- Chapter 2: Space Invaders -- Chapter 3: Altered Landscapes and Transformed Livelihoods -- Chapter 4: Sigatoka, Science, and Control -- Chapter 5:...

This revealing study shows how careful analysis of recent farming practices, and related cultural traditions, in communities around the Mediterranean can enhance our understanding of prehistoric and Greco-Roman societies. Includes a wealth of original interview material and data from field...

Cover -- Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture: Case Studies in South Asia-An Introduction -- Introduction -- Issues and Challenges Associated with...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Contributors -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction. Natural Resources and Underdevelopment in Cameroon: Untangling a Puzzle -- Natural resource endowment as both sides of the same coin -- Sharing from Africa's...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary: The Elusive Promise of Productivity -- 1. Sources of Growth in Agriculture -- Improving Agricultural Productivity: Traversing the Last Mile toward Reducing Extreme Poverty -- Poverty Reduction,...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Development Challenge of Drylands in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Africa Drylands Study -- Objectives of This Book on Agricultural Water Management --...

Population explosions have always pushed India into many deep-rooted socio-economic bottlenecks. India is home to one third of the globe's poverty-ridden and hunger-prone population, despite the undoubted availability of and access to food grains. This study explores the causes of and solutions...