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1	Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern ... see all copies from $20.94! new only from $20.94! \| SVS
2	World Hunger: Twelve Myths more books like this by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins add to wishlist This work examines the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning more books like this by Joel Dyer add to wishlist An expos of todays growing antigovernment movement and the connection between the farm crisis of the 1980s and the massive buildup of militia groups in the United States.. Timothy McVeigh is not alone. The 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City killed nearly two hundred innocent people and shattered the complacency of a nation. But ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
5	Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa more books like this by Robert Paarlberg, Norman E Bourlag (Foreword by), Professor Jimmy Carter (Foreword by) add to wishlist Heading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted dirt, and the journey must continue on foot. The farmers you eventually meet are mostly women, hardworking but visibly poor. They have no improved seeds, ... see all copies from $8.07! new only from $10.28! \| SVS
6	Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet more books like this by Lester Russell Brown add to wishlist This work discusses the consequences for the world's food supply of rapidly increasing prosperity in China and the "Tiger" economies of the Far East. It argues that the prospects of food production keeping pace with growing population and growing consumer demands for protein are not good. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation: A Policy and Agroecological Perspective more books like this by Dr. Stephen A Vosti (Editor), Dr. Thomas Reardon (Editor) add to wishlist Developing countries are under enormous pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term these objectives may compete against one another. This book focuses in particular on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and poverty. The chapters analyze ... see all copies from $9.62! new only from $14.90! \| SVS
8	Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge more books like this by Professor James C Scott, Nina Bhatt (Editor) add to wishlist This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Programme in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
9	Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization more books like this by Jill H Casid add to wishlist Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the "nabobs" to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford's estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette's ... see all copies from $36.45! new only from $36.45!
10	Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization more books like this by Jacqueline Edmondson add to wishlist A description of the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies and growing agribusiness that ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.99!
11	Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization more books like this by Shelia Fitzpatrick, Sheila Fitzpatrick add to wishlist The collectivization of Russian farms was the cornerstone of Soviet agricultural policy during the 1930s. This study about Soviet forced collectivization and its impact on the Russian village, explores the dramatic transformation of peasant life caused by collectivization. It is based on new and unknown material from recently-opened Soviet ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $49.93! \| first editions
12 view cover	Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. In Beyond the Miracle of the Market, Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and mounts a prescient critique of the neo-classical turn in development economics. Attributing Kenya's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.19! \| first editions
13 view cover	Farmer-Led Extension: Concepts and Practices more books like this by John Farrington (Editor), Debra A Johnson (Editor), Vanessa Scarborough (Editor) add to wishlist Focusing on farmer-led approaches to extension work, this reference and guide is aimed at anyone with a professional or general interest in promoting agricultural development. The book draws on the experiences of over 70 farmers, community workers, NGO staff, researchers and policy makers worldwide, and combines case-studies, research and ... see all copies from $16.26!
14	Cross Fire: The Eight Years with Eisenhower more books like this by Ezra Taft Benson add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! first editions
15	The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes more books like this by Frederic L Pryor add to wishlist Reorganizing the agricultural sector into large-scale state and collective farms was the most radical transformation of economic institutions implemented by Marxist governments. Frederic Pryor provides perspective on this experiment by comparing in a systematic fashion the changes in the organization of agriculture in all of the world's Marxist ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Raising Less Corn, More Hell: Why Our Economy, Ecology and Security Demand the Preservation of the Independent Farm more books like this by George B Pyle add to wishlist In Raising Less Corn, More Hell George B. Pyle shows us how the famous breadbasket of America is being bought up by large corporations, who produce less food per acre than the small farmer, push those farmers further into debt, pollute the earth and wear out the soil, and even license the very stuff of life: grain and seed. Meanwhile those ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Food for Thought: Towards a Future for Farming more books like this by Patrick Herman, Richard Kuper add to wishlist A manifesto for change in agriculture produced by the radical French farmer's union, Confederation Paysanne, this book is about much more than the Common Agricultural Policy and France: it's a brief history of how the CAP came into being, a summary of everything that's wrong with agribusiness and a call for radical change in the structures of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.63! \| SVS
18	The Greening of Agricultural Policy in Industrial Societies more books like this by David J Vail add to wishlist While shifting priorities are universal in industrial societies the authors argue here that the sweep and comprehensiveness of Sweden's "green" policy responses have put it in the vanguard. In this book they explore the gathering momentum behind agricultural "greening" in a context of worldwide economic restructuring and environmental challenges. see all copies from $5.00! first editions
19 view cover	Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy more books like this by Ann-Christina L Knudsen add to wishlist see all copies from $34.75! new only from $34.75!
20 view cover	Counter-Revolution in Egypt's Countryside: Land and Farmers in the Era of Economic Reform more books like this by Ray Bush (Editor) add to wishlist Agriculture is at the centre of Egypt's economy, society and politics. This volume on Egyptian agriculture and rural society combines local research with national rural policy analysis. In particular, it explores the impact of market liberalization policies introduced under pressure from the World Bank, IMF and USAID, and especially of Law 96 of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America more books like this by Professor Alain De Janvry add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.64! \| SVS
22 view cover	Food for the Future: Agriculture for a Global Age more books like this by Jose Bove, Francois Dufour, Jean Birrell (Translator) add to wishlist It's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in the media, we panic. Since most of us know very little about the real state of agriculture ... see all copies from $5.40! new only from $9.98! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy more books like this by John Opie add to wishlist 'This book provides fascinating insights into how present-day American land legislation has evolved. In doing so the author identifies the many problems that the family farmer has had to face over the past two centuries at the hands of the weather, unstable product prices, and corrupt and venal politicians' - "Journal of Agricultural Economics". ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $3.98! \| first editions
24	Killing of the Countryside more books like this by Graham Harvey add to wishlist An attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice. Harvey pleads for a return to natural cycles, an end to subsidies and the domination of agri-businesses, and for a safe, sustainable farming system. He hopes the link between the British people and the countryside may be re-established. see all copies from $2.19! new only from $12.31! \| first editions
25 view cover	Reluctant Partners?: Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development more books like this by John Farrington (Editor) add to wishlist Insufficiences and inequities in food production and supply in poor countries need to be addressed as problems of both agricultural resource management and rural democratization. Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGO's work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $25.00! \| SVS

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