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Cover Ethical Value Networks in International Trade
Ethical Value Networks in International Trade
Social Justice, Sustainability and Provenance in the Global South
Edited by Warwick E. Murray, John Overton, and Kelle Howson
This forward-looking book introduces the concept of Ethical Value Networks, building upon a theoretical exploration with primary evidence of their impacts in the Global South. It moves away from focusing on the consumption section of networks, with grounded impact studies that explore ethicality as a concept, how ethical value is created and how this is distributed through the socio-economy.
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Monograph Book
Published:
11 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374508
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Edited by A. H. Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels, and Ben M. McKay
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
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Handbook
Published:
14 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China
Edited by Bill Pritchard
Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Monograph Book
Published:
11 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883888
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South
Edited by Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, and Gareth Haysom
The ways in which the rapid urbanization of the Global South is transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.
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Handbook
Published:
18 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431516
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Handbook of Diverse Economies
The Handbook of Diverse Economies
Edited by J. K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski
Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others, from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet. With contributing authors from twenty countries, it presents new thinking around subjectivity and methodology as strategies for making other worlds possible.
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Handbook
Published:
06 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962
Collection:
Economics 2020
Cover Towards Collaborative Research in International Development
Towards Collaborative Research in International Development
The Central Role of Social Science
John Spriggs, Barbara Chambers, and Carole Kayrooz
The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development – with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture need to adapt to mesh with this new reality.
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Monograph Book
Published:
04 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903690
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Biotechnology, Agriculture and Development
Biotechnology, Agriculture and Development
Peter W.B. Phillips, David Castle, and Stuart J. Smyth

Recent innovations in agriculture and food technologies have brought benefits to many countries, particularly in developing regions, but information about the extent of these has often been sparse. This research review examines the best papers on the subject to form a comprehensive, global perspective on the impacts of agricultural biotechnology around the world.
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Research Reviews
Published:
07 Dec 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784716172
Collection:
Economics 2015
Cover Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Edited by Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett
Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically in the global North). The first of its kind, this volume brings together 43 of the foremost fair trade scholars from around the world and across the social sciences. The Handbook serves as both a comprehensive overview and in-depth guide to dominant perspectives and concerns. Chapters analyze the rapidly growing fair trade movement and market, exploring diverse initiatives and organizations, production and consumption regions, and food and cultural products. Written for those new to fair trade as well as those well versed in this domain, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global regulation, multi-stakeholder initiatives, social and environmental certification, ethical labeling, consumer activism, and international development.
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Handbook
Published:
27 Mar 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474622
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Local Societies and Rural Development
Local Societies and Rural Development
Self-organization and Participatory Development in Asia
Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi and Ikuko Okamoto
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in development projects when they are collectively organized. However, this is no easy task. This book aims to identify the mechanisms in each local society through which rural people can best organize themselves to meet their development requirements. It stresses the need to find local mechanisms that motivate and control the members of a new organization in order to achieve organizational goals.
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Monograph Book
Published:
25 Jul 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474387
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2014
Cover Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development
Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development
Edited by Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips, and David Castle
This book is a compendium of knowledge, experience and insight on agriculture, biotechnology and development. Beginning with an account of GM crop adoptions and attitudes towards them, the book assesses numerous crucial processes, concluding with detailed insights into GM products. Drawing on expert perspectives of leading authors from 57 different institutions in 16 countries, it provides a unique, global overview of agbiotech following 20 years of adoption. Many consider GM crops the most rapid agricultural innovation adopted in the history of agriculture. This book provides insights as to why the adoption has occurred globally at such a rapid rate.
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Handbook
Published:
28 Mar 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857938350
Collection:
Economics 2014