Filter by
In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution: Views from Rice and Maize Farmers'…
This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices. Fu…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55692-3
- Collation
- XXIII, 208
- Series Title
- Natural Resource Management and Policy
- Call Number
- 330 INP
The Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Economic Growth A Case Stu…
Regarding the Arab region, GDP per capita virtually stagnated for more than 20 years from 1980. During the same period, GDP per capita in the world’s highly industrialized states further increased and the gap between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the highly developed countries widened. However, the differences between Arab countries and the Western states exist not only economic…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783653008838
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Food Safety, Market Organization, Trade and Development
This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade. Focusing on food safety regulation at an international level and private food safety standards, the authors use contemporary methodologies to analyze supply chain structures and organization as well as food-chain actors’ strategies. They also evaluate the effects of these on both consume…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15227-1
- Collation
- VI, 254 hlm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as wel…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-28201-5
- Collation
- XI, 626 hlm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The WTO and Food Security Implications for Developing Countries
This book examines the public stockholding policies of selected developing countries from the perspective of WTO rules and assesses whether the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could hamper these countries’ efforts to address the challenges of food security. Further, it highlights the need to amend the provisions of the AoA to make WTO rules just and fair for the millions of p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-2179-4
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Developing country perspectives on public service delivery
The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy, and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the publ…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788132221609
- Collation
- xix, 293 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.1
Development disparities in India : an enquiry into convergence
This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development - economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development - over a period of forty years since the 1970s. The novelty of the book lies in its rich analytical foundation and the use of sophisticated statistical and economic tools to determine the causes of socioeconomic disparity be…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788132223313
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.1
Development in India Micro and Macro Perspectives
This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism. It explores the efficiency of and distributional issues related to agriculture, and the roles of macro models and financial markets, with a special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity traps and experimental markets. The importance of finite changes in trade and develo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788132225416
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.1
New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of c…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1385-0180
- Collation
- VII, 509
- Series Title
- Archimedes
- Call Number
- -
Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation Investigating the Durability …
Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time. This multidisciplinary expert report, based on an international literature review, assesses the effects of the cultivation of crops possessing HT traits. HT crops may appear to be u…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-024-1007-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography