The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
ISBN: 9780745334240 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at an a consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider knowledge, Ndongo Sylla shows that there is a big gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results. Sylla shows empirically that Fair Trade excludes those who need it the most and that its benefits are essentially captured by the wealthiest groups in the supply chain. Based on his experience of working for Fairtrade International Sylla shows the flaws in the Fair Trade system which compromise its ethical mission. The Fair Trade...
The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at an a consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign. Through a razor-sharp analysis based on insider kn...
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160,66 zł |
Role of Wheat in Afghanistan's Food Security
ISBN: 9781619429468 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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320,30 zł |
E-Agriculture and Rural Development: Global Innovations and Future Prospects
ISBN: 9781466626553 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, there has been growing attention devoted to the implementation of information and communication technology in agriculture and rural development. While evidence has linked ICT to an increase in gross domestic product, it has prompted a global dedication to the research of the socio-economic benefits, trade- offs, and policy implications of ICT consumption in developing countries. E-Agriculture and Rural Development: Global Innovations and Future Prospects is a comprehensive collection of research on the emerging trends and advances in the global use of information and...
In recent years, there has been growing attention devoted to the implementation of information and communication technology in agriculture and rural d...
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1040,68 zł |
Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900
ISBN: 9780199899128 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollars "Dairy farm families, health officials, and food manufacturers have simultaneously stoked human desires for an all-natural product and intervened to ensure milk's safety and profitability," writes Kendra Smith-Howard. In Pure and Modern Milk, she tells the history of a nearly universal consumer product, and sheds light on America's food industry. Today, she notes, milk reaches...
Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy orga...
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238,77 zł |
The Complete Guide To Beef Cattle Farming: Look Inside To Discover How To Become A Beef Cattle Farmer
ISBN: 9781453711828 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practical how to advice for raising beef cattle on virtually any farm, large or small The Complete Guide to Beef Cattle Farming will help you To Discover How to Become a Beef Cattle Farmer. Raising beef cattle on a small scale is a popular and growing enterprise. The Complete Guide to Beef Cattle Farming delivers up to date, thorough introduction to all aspects of raising and caring for beef cattle, including choosing and purchasing, facilities and equipment, and proper nutrition. The Complete Guide to Beef Cattle Farming provides authoritative, detailed information to make your start into a...
Practical how to advice for raising beef cattle on virtually any farm, large or small The Complete Guide to Beef Cattle Farming will help you To Disc...
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159,61 zł |
Safety of U.S. Meat & Poultry Products: Development & Oversight
ISBN: 9781622570089 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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826,68 zł |
Farm Safety Net: Programs, Proposals, Overlap
ISBN: 9781622570287 / Angielski / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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408,15 zł |
Agricultural Issues & Policies: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781622574728 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1007,53 zł |
Global Agricultural Industries: Research Spending Trends & Changing Market Structures
ISBN: 9781622574766 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1007,53 zł |
Knowledge Generation and Technical Change: Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
ISBN: 9781461355847 / Angielski / Miękka / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in order to stimulate higher levels of private investment. Intellectual property rights held by public organizations and researchers are now increasingly transferred to private organizations to accelerate the diffusion and enhance the value of knowledge produced by public agencies and universities....
Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has inc...
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383,73 zł |
Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Econom
ISBN: 9780415851725 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development - undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and innovative dynamic systems...
This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year, eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy Model of Multifunc...
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278,96 zł |
Influence of Trade Agreements in Global Agricultural Markets
ISBN: 9781624173882 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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873,18 zł |
Food Prices, Discount Stores & Private Labels: Analyses & Trends
ISBN: 9781622578726 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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439,15 zł |
Distillers' Dried Grains: Market & Usage Trends
ISBN: 9781624176838 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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We Will Reap What We Sow: Reflections on Human Nature, Leadership and Feeding a Growing Population
ISBN: 9781475101553 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now with new cover We Will Reap What We Sow takes over where Christophe Pelletier's first book, Future Harvests, ended. The true purpose of "We Will Reap What We Sow" is to make the reader think. It addresses the major questions that need to be answered. It discusses the pros and cons of the different points of views. It indicates what the most likely consequences of different scenarios might be. Human nature being as it is, the book also focuses on how to develop positive incentives and reduce the possibility of negative stimuli. "We Will Reap What We Sow" presents a balanced discussion...
Now with new cover We Will Reap What We Sow takes over where Christophe Pelletier's first book, Future Harvests, ended. The true purpose of "We Will ...
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68,24 zł |
Top 25 Crops KPIs of 2011-2012
ISBN: 9781484155486 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Top 25 Crops KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of agriculture performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the most visited KPIs for this functional area on smartKPIs.com in 2011. In addition to KPI names, it contains a detailed description of each KPI, in the standard smartKPIs.com KPI documentation format, that includes fields such as: definition, purpose, calculation, limitation, overall notes and additional resources. While dominated by KPIs reflecting cost performance and material handling, other popular KPIs come from categories such as...
The "Top 25 Crops KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of agriculture performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the...
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223,65 zł |
Top 25 Livestock, Hunting and Fishing KPIs of 2011-2012
ISBN: 9781484155875 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Top 25 Livestock, Hunting and Fishing KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of livestock, hunting and fishing performance measurement today by listing and analyzing the most visited KPIs for this functional area on smartKPIs.com in 2011. In addition to KPI names, it contains a detailed description of each KPI, in the standard smartKPIs.com KPI documentation format, that includes fields such as: definition, purpose, calculation, limitation, overall notes and additional resources. While dominated by KPIs reflecting cost performance and material handling, other popular...
The "Top 25 Livestock, Hunting and Fishing KPIs of 2011-2012" report provides insights into the state of livestock, hunting and fishing performance me...
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223,65 zł |
Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk
ISBN: 9780415826983 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges of price risk. Integration and price risk are interwoven in agricultural supply chains through the problems of production risk and hoarding. Without integration through commercial trade markets there can be no forward market upon which forward transactions and the management of price risk can be based. Without a forward market that can reduce opportunistic behaviour, there is likely to be little security of supply, particularly under high production risk and price uncertainty. Whilst... This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges of price risk. Integration and price risk are ... |
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Reducing the Vulnerability of Uzbekistan's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Options
ISBN: 9781464800009 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reducing the Vulnerability of Uzbekistan's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Options is part of the World Bank Studies series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. Agriculture is one of the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors. Uzbekistan is one of the many countries where the majority of the rural population depends on agriculture--directly or indirectly--for their livelihood. The risks associated with climate change pose an immediate and fundamental problem in...
Reducing the Vulnerability of Uzbekistan's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Options is part of the World Bank ...
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140,19 zł |
Reducing the Vulnerability of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Opt
ISBN: 9781464800436 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture is one of the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors. In many countries, such as in FYR Macedonia, the risks of climate change are an immediate and fundamental problem because the majority of the rural population depends either directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. The risks of climate change to agriculture in FYR Macedonia cannot be effectively dealt with--and the opportunities cannot be effectively exploited--without a clear plan for aligning agricultural policies with climate change, developing the capabilities of key agricultural institutions,...
Agriculture is one of the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors. In many countries, such as in FYR Macedonia, the risks of climate change are...
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124,82 zł |