Small island developing states face challenges in cultivating healthy food systems and are
currently bearing substantial burdens of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Local food production …

The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people
have been deported since 1997–twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There …

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat. The
current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus' food mountains' …

Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an
economic'shock'or a'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development …

While agricultural production has always been a risky endeavour, it has become even more
so in the current context of climatic change and increasing market uncertainty. Meanwhile …

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and
sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a …

This paper reports on ongoing research on the impact of global environmental and
economic change on small farming in Jamaica using a case study of southern St. Elizabeth …

The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding of drought and climate change in
southwestern Jamaica through an integration of local knowledge and perception of drought …

Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and
place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism …

Agroecology and SL studies are multi-disciplinary development schools that investigate the
contexts and struggles of the rural poor in making a living under various adverse conditions …