Droughts have been identified as an environmental hazard by environmentalists, ecologists,
hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, and agricultural experts. Droughts are …

This paper aims to examine the issue raised by the consumption of locally produced food in
all its various aspects, and in particular, addresses how this practice contributes to local and …

Agroecology is in fashion, and now constitutes a territory in dispute between social
movements and institutionality. This new conjuncture offers a constellation of opportunities …

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 …

In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of
work done with, by, and for animals. Interweaving human-animal studies, labor theories and …

This book fills a gap in the literature by setting food security in the context of evolving global
food governance. Today's food system generates hunger alongside of food waste …

Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability
challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production …

This is the first book to focus on agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-
oriented process. Using a combined theoretical and practical approach, this collection of …

On 4 August 2011, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) submitted an
unprecedented, scientific, groundbreaking environmental assessment report (EAR) on …

For centuries, China's farmers practiced agriculture in ways that sustained a high level of
food production without depleting or deteriorating local resources. These were smallholder …