This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been devel…
The respective chapters cover topics such as cooperatives in Switzerland (historical roots, current landscape, embeddedness in profit/nonprofit organizations, participatory governance and legal aspects), grand societal challenges and cooperatives, and the future with and of cooperatives.
Buku Open Access ini menyediakan dasar-dasar yang kuat dan panduan praktis untuk pemetaan akurat lahan pertanian berdasarkan parameter tanah seperti tekstur, pH, dan kandungan humus. Metode pemetaan yang paling sesuai saat ini dijelaskan. Setiap langkah proses dijelaskan secara rinci, mulai dari pembenahan data sensor tanah hingga pembuatan peta sebaran dan pemilihan pupuk kapur yang optimal. S…
Ini adalah buku akses terbuka. Ranavirus, virus DNA untai ganda (keluarga Iridoviridae) yang menyebabkan penyakit sistemik yang mengancam jiwa pada berbagai amfibi, reptil, dan ikan, telah berkontribusi pada kematian massal populasi liar maupun terpenangkap di seluruh dunia. Virus-virus ini sedang muncul dan semakin bertanggung jawab atas penurunan populasi vertebrata ektotermik. Karena amfibi,…
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…
In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem. The volunteers are connected to Christian organizations which consider their work a natural consequence of the biblical promises to Israel and their responsibility to “bless the Jewish people”. Relying on ethnographic data of the…
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the inte…
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.