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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew
ISBN: 9780156032421 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food had shot up about 20 percent per year since 1990, reaching $11 billion by 2003 . . . Whole Foods managed to sidestep that fray by focusing on, well, people like me.
Organic food has become a juggernaut in an otherwise sluggish food industry, growing at 20 percent a year as products like organic ketchup and corn chips vie for shelf space with conventional comestibles. But what is organic food? Is it really better for you? Where did it... Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food ...
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80,86 zł |
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From Marx and Mao to the Market : The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition
ISBN: 9780199288915 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Studying agrarian transition in more than 25 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia, this book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of the reforms in agriculture by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region.
Studying agrarian transition in more than 25 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia, this book is the first...
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875,46 zł |
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From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture
ISBN: 9780253345714 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Anyone who wants a thorough understanding of the history of the region must read this book." R. Douglas Hurt, author of Problems of Plenty: The American This meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in farm technology, farm management, and farm life. The hard work, tight communities, and values that had characterized the family farm were replaced by large corporate enterprises with massive acreages, high-tech methods, and global outlooks. While many decry this change as loss, Nordin... "Anyone who wants a thorough understanding of the history of the region must read this book." R. Douglas Hurt, author of Problems of Plenty: The Am... |
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302,13 zł |
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The Nature of the Farm : Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture
ISBN: 9780262511858 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests the implications of those models against data sets from across North American agriculture, as well as against historical case studies such as eighteenth-century European land contracts and the... The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost fram... |
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127,07 zł |
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Farming for Us All : Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
ISBN: 9780271023878 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and depressed by all the threats facing modern agriculture--threats to the environment, to the health and safety of our food, to the economic and cultural viability of farmers and rural communities. Hundreds of thousands of farmers leave their farms every year as the juggernaut of "big agriculture" plows across our rural landscape. But there are viable alternatives to big agriculture, as many farmers and others involved in agriculture, including consumers, are discovering. In Farming for Us All Michael Mayerfeld Bell offers crucial insight into the... It is easy to feel overwhelmed and depressed by all the threats facing modern agriculture--threats to the environment, to the health and safety of ... |
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208,70 zł |
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The Business of Food : Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries
ISBN: 9780313337253 / Angielski / Twarda / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The business of food and drink is for better and worse the business of our nation and our planet, and to most consumers how it works remains largely a mystery. This encyclopedia takes readers as consumers behind the scenes of the food and drink industries. The contributors come from a wide range of fields, and the scope of this encyclopedia is broad, covering from food companies and brands to the environment, health, science and technology, culture, finance, and more. The more than 150 essay entries also cover those issues that have been and continue to be of perennial importance.... The business of food and drink is for better and worse the business of our nation and our planet, and to most consumers how it works remains largel... |
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533,82 zł |
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European Agriculture : Policies, Production and Trade
ISBN: 9780415085328 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is central to both economic and environmental developments in Europe. But with the advent of new environmental legislation and political change in Europe the CAP faces increasing pressure to reform.
European Agriculture provides a comprehensive breakdown of the workings of the CAP and its impact on farming in Europe. The author discusses every aspect of European agricultural policy, production and trade, from environmental contraints and the impact of biotechnology, to the role of European farming in the world food supply system. Posing... The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is central to both economic and environmental developments in Europe. But with the advent of new environmental le...
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249,94 zł |
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European Agriculture : Policies, Production and Trade
ISBN: 9780415085335 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. European agricultural policy is too often a tangled web of technicalities wrapped in incomprehensible jargon. Yet it deals with the most basic human requirement - food. This work attempts to explain the complexities of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the 1994 General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the changes that are being forced on agricultural policy in Europe by environmental legislation, biotechnology and political change. Reforms of the CAP were agreed in 1992. Explaining the reform programme in detail, the book goes on to question the effectiveness of the reform and...
European agricultural policy is too often a tangled web of technicalities wrapped in incomprehensible jargon. Yet it deals with the most basic human r...
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133,41 zł |
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Agricultural Governance : Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation
ISBN: 9780415352291 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium. In an era of globalization, where nation states appear to have a diminishing role in governing these matters, the existing and emerging power relations underpinning agri-food regulation demand renewed scholarly attention. Drawing upon the expertise of some of the most prominent writers in rural sociology, geography and anthropology, this book shows how globalization processes open up a new regulatory politics in which non-political forms of... Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium. In an era... |
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610,18 zł |
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Agriculture
ISBN: 9780415376525 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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2119,74 zł |
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Making a Market Economy : The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
ISBN: 9780415949446 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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610,18 zł |
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Molecular Breeding of Woody Plants
ISBN: 9780444509581 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. At present, plants and agricultural sciences are playing a leading role in providing solutions to problems created by an ever growing world population. Through plant biotechnology scientists are seeking ways to improve crop functions that rapidly promote food production. Agricultural science is being used to experiment with producing plants tolerant to environmental stresses such as drought, salinity and coldness.
At present, plants and agricultural sciences are playing a leading role in providing solutions to problems created by an ever growing world population...
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769,07 zł |
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Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural and Food Policy
ISBN: 9780444510792 / Angielski / Twarda / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The subject matter of agricultural economics has both broadened and deepened and the chapters of this handbook present innovative work in the field. This volume contains part 5 of the handbook on agricultural and food policy.
The subject matter of agricultural economics has both broadened and deepened and the chapters of this handbook present innovative work in the field. T...
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663,14 zł |
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The International Cocoa Trade
ISBN: 9780471190554 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First imported to America more than five hundred years ago and propagated on a small scale until the eighteenth century, cocoa is now one of the most heavily traded food commodities in the world. While potentially very lucrative, trading in cocoa remains a highly complex--and risky--venture, rendered even more so today by a sweeping tide of changes that has dramatically altered its landscape. In The International Cocoa Trade, the first comprehensive resource of its kind, commodity expert Robin Dand provides an all-encompassing guide to the global cocoa industry, delineating and clarifying its...
First imported to America more than five hundred years ago and propagated on a small scale until the eighteenth century, cocoa is now one of the most ...
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1180,31 zł |
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Colonializing Agriculture : The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780761934042 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal... This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakista...
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235,22 zł |
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Colonializing Agriculture : The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780761934059 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakistani and Indian provinces of Punjab, included the present day Indian provinces of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Making extensive use of data culled from government archives and private papers in India and Britain, as well as from village surveys, farm accounts and family budgets, the author argues that Punjab was by no means an idyllic land of prosperous peasant proprietors. She maintains that it was also the land of big feudal... This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region which, apart from the Pakista...
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207,71 zł |
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The Power of Everyday Politics : How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy
ISBN: 9780801443015 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the villagers who effected change. Not through open opposition but through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and frustrated authorities' efforts to correct the problems.The Power of Everyday...
Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In te...
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309,51 zł |
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Putting Meat on the American Table : Taste, Technology, Transformation
ISBN: 9780801882418 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation--from the colonial period to the present. It examines the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing--looking closely at the production of beef, pork, chicken, and hot dogs. Roger Horowitz argues that a series of new technologies have transformed American meat. He draws on detailed consumption surveys that shed new light on America's eating preferences--especially differences associated with income, rural versus urban areas, and... Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation--from the col... |
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101,41 zł |
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Kill and Chill : Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain
ISBN: 9780802078322 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Both horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book that would explain the main features of the Canadian meat packing industry. Finding very little available, he set about writing an account of the industry that is both an economic geography and economic history. Comprehensive in its treatment of the whole system surrounding the Canadian beef industry, Kill and Chill offers a history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production and... Both horrified and fascinated by a visit with his geography students to the Canada Packers Lethbridge plant, Ian MacLachlan searched for a book tha... |
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184,99 zł |
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Fighting for the Farm : Rural America Transformed
ISBN: 9780812218305 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fighting for the Farm Rural America Transformed Edited by Jane Adams "The chapters do an excellent job of showing the intersection of structure and agency, including both powerful actors who alter structures in their own interests and grassroots movements that set up alternative structures and different interpretations of reality. . . . The authors of this volume analyze actors who are struggling to construct alternative food systems in harmony with humanity and nature."--Contemporary Sociology In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family...
Fighting for the Farm Rural America Transformed Edited by Jane Adams "The chapters do an excellent job of showing the intersection of structure and ag...
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137,57 zł |