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  • Agricultural Marketing

    Structural Models for Price Analysis

    by James Vercammen ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    The price of food has become very volatile in recent years for a variety of reasons, including a strengthened connection between the prices of agricultural commodities and other commodities such as oil and metals, more volatile production due to more frequent droughts and floods, and a rising demand for biofuels. Understanding the determinants of agricultural commodity prices and the connections ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Making Your Small Farm Profitable

    Apply 25 Guiding Principles, Develop New Crops & New Markets, Maximize Net Profits per Acre

    by Ron Macher ...
    Turn your farm into a cash cow! Ron Macher offers a host of simple strategies for increasing your farm earnings, from purchasing durable equipment to growing economically viable crops. A seasoned expert in farm efficiency, Macher shows you how to locate a lucrative niche market for your products, optimize sales, and minimize costs. Whether you’re buying a new farm or jump-starting an old one, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In Sight of Yellow Mountain

    A Year in the Irish Countryside

    by Philip Judge ...
    'This is The Good Life meets A Year in Provence'. Sue Collins, The Nualas 'A luminous, funny and profound reading experience.' Sebastian Barry First, a dream of escaping the city… and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a small village in the heart of the countryside was the beginning of a new life for Philip Judge and his Beloved – the beginning of life In Sight of Yellow ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Zealand Land & Food Annual 2017

    Volume 2

    Edited by Claire Massey ...
    Series series The New Zealand Land & Food Annual
    The world needs nutrition-driven agriculture that operates within planetary boundaries. But a recent OECD report on New Zealand's environmental performance shows how our agricultural sector's continual push at those boundaries poses grave risks. Meantime, a range of health indices show that how and what we eat makes many of us ill. Plus, valuable revenue and jobs are lost because we don't champion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Food Insecurity

    Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

    by Maria Sassi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies. The aim is to equip readers with a sound understanding of the subject that will assist in the recognition of food insecurity and the design of suitable responses. The early chapters discuss the evolution and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services

    From Regulation to Innovation

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Advances in Tea Agronomy

    by M. K. V. Carr ...
    Tea is big business. After water, tea is believed to be the most widely consumed beverage in the world. And yet, as productivity increases, the real price of tea declines while labour costs continue to rise. Tea remains a labour intensive industry. With a distinguished career spanning over 50 years and rich experience in diverse crops, Mike Carr is eminently qualified to indulge in an intelligent ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Chile’s Salmon Industry

    Policy Challenges in Managing Public Goods

    Edited by Akio Hosono, Michiko Iizuka, Jorge Katz ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first to analyze Chile’s salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods. The book highlights important aspects of learning and capacity development, environmental sustainability, institutions, and social welfare or inclusiveness.With aquaculture now providing almost half the global fish harvest, Chile’s salmon farming and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Agricultural Development in the World Periphery

    A Global Economic History Approach

    Edited by Vicente Pinilla, Henry Willebald ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and their interaction with the overall economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Looking at the nineteenth and ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Institutional Innovations in the Delivery of Farm Services in India

    A Smallholder Perspective

    by Sukhpal Singh ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The services discussed include custom rental of farm machinery and equipment, franchising for backward and forward ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques

    With Applications to Agro-Engineering Problems

    by Francesco Garbati Pegna, Daniele Sarri, Lucia Recchia, Enrico Cini, Paolo Boncinelli, Marco Vieri ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Multicriteria Analysis and LCA Techniques introduces the reader to the basic principles of multicriteria analysis (MCA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques. The use of these tools is rapidly becoming essential in any feasibility study for comparing different solutions, selecting the most suitable ones, and for analyzing the interface of economy and environment.The main feature of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD