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Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew
ISBN: 9780156032421 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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80,44 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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870,90 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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305,05 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. 16-18 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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126,41 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. 16-18 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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207,64 zł |
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Chicken : The Dangerous Transformation of America?s Favorite Food
ISBN: 9780300123678 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America's favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful indictment of our industrial food system. The process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables is unhealthy for all concerned--from farmer to factory worker to consumer. The book traces the development of the poultry industry since the Second World War, analyzing the impact of such changes as... Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on... |
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98,76 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. 16-18 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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531,05 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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243,38 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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129,93 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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594,11 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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2063,88 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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594,11 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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748,83 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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645,69 zł |
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The International Cocoa Trade
ISBN: 9780471190554 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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1174,11 zł |
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Food for Thought: Towards a Future for Farming
ISBN: 9780745320779 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The French radical farmers union Confederation Paysanne, with its charismatic leader Jose Bove, has led the world in demonstrating the possibility of a socially progressive future for farming. Rejecting the increasing intensification and industrialisation of agriculture, the Confederation has argued for the need for local food production by small, independent farmers - both for the sake of the quality of the food we consume and to support the kind of societies we want to live in.Originally published in French, Food for Thought has been expanded and adapted for an English-speaking audience....
The French radical farmers union Confederation Paysanne, with its charismatic leader Jose Bove, has led the world in demonstrating the possibility of ...
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98,71 zł |
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Asian Irrigation in Transition: Responding to Challenges
ISBN: 9780761933502 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. There is today a crucial need to revamp the management and governance of water systems in Asia in order to cater to the increasing demands of a growing group of users with diverse needs - urban settlements, industry, food producers and environmental needs. This book includes essays that cover a range of issues that are involved in this endeavor.
There is today a crucial need to revamp the management and governance of water systems in Asia in order to cater to the increasing demands of a growin...
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261,57 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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229,05 zł |
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Colonializing Agriculture : The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780761934059 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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206,63 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. 25-30 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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245,33 zł |