Vegetables are increasingly recognized as essential for food and nutrition security.
Vegetable production provides a promising economic opportunity for reducing rural poverty …

Genetic modification in plants was first recorded 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia where
humans first bred plants through artificial selection and selective breeding. Since then …

The growing use of chemical herbicides for weed control has become a dominant feature of
modern industrial agriculture and a major environmental and health concern in agricultural …

Who controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the
supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes …

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation
within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology …

Seed coating is the practice of covering seeds with external materials to improve handling,
protection, and, to a lesser extent, germination enhancement and plant establishment. With …

An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of
Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings …

Increasing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food because of a growing population,
and the pledge to maintain biodiversity and other resources, pose a major challenge to …

Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a
powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the …

Food lies at the heart of both health and sustainability challenges. We use a social-
ecological framework to illustrate how major changes to the volume, nutrition and safety of …