Agricultural Policy in Disarray provides fascinating, detailed, and contemporary evidence of how rent-seeking by small, well-organized interest groups results in government policies that do little good and much harm.
How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy.
How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy.
Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals - environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. This book provides techniques and concepts for sustainable land use not only to the professionals but home gardeners. It is based on decades of Holzmans research and experience as a market gardener.
This six-continent survey of the history, customs, and representations of the midday meal explains *who eats what for lunch; *where and when they eat it; *and what it means in the larger cultural context. The first international history of lunch, this book provides anecdotes and analysis that present lunch as a meaningful daily event.
This is the extraordinary saga of Countess Evelina van Millingen Pisani, a modern woman who lived in the age of Queen Victoria. A friend of Henry James and Isabella Stewart Gardner, she led a rich but turbulent life that spanned from Rome to Constantinople and Venice.
The Diffusion of State Organic Food and Agriculture Legislation, 1976
The National Organic Program regulates the current U.S. organic food and agriculture market, but states started adopting organic regulations in the 1970s. This book examines the diffusion of state organic food and agriculture legislation from 1976-2010 and identifies the consequences for state involvement in this policy domain.
It has long been observed, by farmers, gardeners and botanists alike, that some plants seem to affect other plants growing near them both favourably and unfavourably. By taking account of these relationships, farmers and gardeners can improve the quality of food and flowers, reduce losses from pests and disease, drought and frost, and ......
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations.
