This paper presents the results of an exploratory study into how different forms of social
capital embedded within community-based social networks may affect innovation in …

Small island economies are highly dependent on food imports. Self‐sufficiency through food
localization is therefore often advocated. Can a small Caribbean island nation localize its …

Long‐term and short‐term (seasonal) migrations from Caribbean countries have been
strategies for enhancing the livelihoods and assets of individuals and families for many …

This paper draws upon Foucauldian theories of governmentality and biopower to examine
the recent growth of greenhouse cultivation on the island of Jamaica. Greenhouse farming …

This article examines the process of structural adjustment in Jamaica, and the various ways
in which the contradictory tensions embedded in the current order are being contained …

Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made
redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade …

This article examines the crisis of the Jamaican peasantry. Jamaica's peasants are
struggling against pressures old and new, with the burden of their spatial inheritance …

Głównym celem tej książki jest przedstawienie w sposób zwięzły i przystępny
najistotniejszych procesów współczesnej gospodarki żywnościowej świata oraz wskazanie …

This analysis traces how different forms of social capital embedded within community-based
social networks may affect smallholder farming system innovation in support of food security …

The onset of the Great Recession posed a stern challenge to the prevailing model for better
living through globalization. Late in the last decade, after having dominated the theory and …