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“walter falcon”

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  • Seeds of Sustainability

    Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture

    by Walter Falcon, Ashley Dean, Rosamond Naylor, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, David Lobell, John Harrison, Toby Ahrens, Mike Beman, Lee Addams, Gerrit Schoups, Ellen McCullough, David Battisti, Peter Jewett, Jose L. Minjares ...
    Seeds of Sustainability is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, and students alike, it examines new approaches to make agricultural landscapes healthier for both the environment and people.The Yaqui Valley is the birthplace of the Green Revolution and one of the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution

    Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests

    by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor ...
    Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades. The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers in their production; their economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. The planting of these crops is controversial because they are often sown on formerly ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

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    75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees

    by Paul Falcone ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    People power your business--and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it? Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew: best practices that would enable the entire organization to operate more effectively...transforming those ... Read more

    $34.98 USD

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  • Peasants in Power

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  • Family Farming and the Worlds to Come

    Edited by Jean-Michel Sourisseau ...
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  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edited by Melinda Smale, Marc Cohen ...
    Series series Development in Practice Books
    This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In ... Read more

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  • Large-Scale Land Investments in Least Developed Countries

    Legal Conflicts Between Investment and Human Rights Protection

    by Luis Tomás Montilla Fernández ...
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  • Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

    Fostering Resilience and Capacity to Adapt

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  • In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution

    Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

    Edited by Keijiro Otsuka, Donald F. Larson ...
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