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Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. Covering over two decades of research in agriculture and biodiversity conservation in Cuba, this book provides a unique case study about sustainable agriculture. It shows how the agricultural biodiversity maintained in situ by family farms within those protected areas provides a strategic source of crop genetic resources, including seeds and planting materials, as well as agroecological knowledge and practices. Agricultural practices within and around the Biosphere Reserves have helped to promote local food security through healthier and more dive...

Managing the Monster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Managing the Monster

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Effective governance is typified by transparency, accountability, credibility, and stability of the governing body, as well as by the cooperative partnership of public sector, private sector, and civil society. In Africa today, good governance is central to the achievement of sustainable and equitable development. But Africa is rapidly urbanizing. Urban authorities must deal with the uncontrolled and unplanned movement of rural dwellers into the large urban centers, and the environmental "monster" it is creating: rampant urban waste, much of it toxic. Managing the Monster critically examines urban governance in Africa, with particular reference to the serious problems and challenges posed by...

The Unending Hunger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Unending Hunger

Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in womenÕs experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how Òfood securityÓ comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding womenÕs relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.

Agropolis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Agropolis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world.

Cities Feeding People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Cities Feeding People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-14
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.

The Political Economy of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

The Political Economy of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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For Hunger-proof Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

For Hunger-proof Cities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: IDRC

For Hunger Proof Cities: Sustainable urban food systems

Growing Better Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 119

Growing Better Cities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Accompanying CD-ROM also has titles in French and Spanish.

Critical Food Issues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

Critical Food Issues

This authoritative, research-based collection examines urgent threats to future global food security and evaluates current and potential solutions. Critical Food Issues: Problems and State-of-the-Art Solutions Worldwide examines 31 crucial areas of concern, from soil degradation, depletion of water for irrigation, and loss of biodiversity to declining rural livelihoods, hunger and obesity, unjust farm labor practices, and farm animal mistreatment. Critical Food Issues divides its coverage into two exhaustive volumes, one on bioenvironmental topics and one with a sociocultural focus. Throughout, highly accomplished experts from a variety of academic backgrounds review the current state of res...