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  • Africa’s Land Rush
    Dzodzi Tsikata / Ian Scoones
    Africa has been at the centre of a 'land grab' in recent years, with investors lured by projections of rising food prices, growing demand for 'green' energy, and cheap land and water rights. But such land is often also used or claimed through custom by communities. What does this mean for Africa? In what ways are rural people’s lives and livelihoods being transformed as a resul...
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    26,63 €

  • Green Grabbing
    Ian Scoones / James Fairhead / Melissa Leach
    ’Green grabbing’ is an emerging process of deep and growing significance, whether linked to biodiversity conservation, biocarbon sequestration, biofuels, ecosystem services, ecotourism or ’offsets’. This collection explores these new ways of valuing, commodifying and appropriating nature, and the implications for people, ecologies and livelihoods.This book was published as a sp...
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    301,11 €

  • Dynamic Sustainabilities
    Andrew Charles Stirling / Ian Scoones / Melissa Leach
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite grow...
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    268,11 €

  • Avian Influenza
    Ian Scoones
    Over the past decade, substantial resources have been spent on tackling avian influenza and building a global capacity for a pandemic response. The catastrophic costs of the 1918 influenza pandemic are well documented, and the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 has raised the alarm yet again. Across the world, surveillance systems have been upgraded, stockpiles of antiviral drugs an...
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    77,12 €

  • Dynamics and Diversity
    Ian Scoones
    Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with co...
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    56,98 €

  • Dynamics and Diversity
    Ian Scoones
    Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with co...
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    169,25 €

  • Living with Uncertainty
    Ian Scoones
    This book examines the management of policy implications for pastoral development in dryland areas. The contributors examine the consequences of living with uncertainty for pastoral development planning, range and fodder management, drought responses, livestock marketing, resource tenure, institutional development and pastoral administration. ...
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    35,81 €

  • Beyond Farmer First
    Ian Scoones / John Thompson
    The purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational acts, are in fact part of a process of coming to terms with conflicting interests and viewpoints, a process in which choices are made, alliances formed, exclusions effected, and worldviews imposed. ...
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    53,83 €