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Unlocking markets to smallholders
Springer 2012; US$ 59.95This 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.... more...
Institutional Constraints to Small Farmer Development in Southern Africa
Springer 2011; US$ 69.95The Southern Africa region has experienced more than its fair share of problems in recent years. Just when it seemed that the hardships wrought by the devastating cycle of droughts and floods of 2000 to 2002 were a thing of the past, other problems emerged. At one level, there have been the weak and often erratic governance mechanisms and political... more...
The Last Hunger Season
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 15.99The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa?s agriculture sector more...
Let's Look: Farm
Dorling Kindersley 2006; US$ 4.99This exciting new series uses colorful images, simple text labels, and fun "I spy" games to introduce curious preschoolers to the world. Essential tools for building vocabulary. Helps toddlers develop important observational skills. Essential preschool learning! more...
The Last Hunger Season
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 26.99The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa?s agriculture sector more...
Land and Labour in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 1978; US$ 55.00This book of essays by an international group of scholars represents a substantial empirical contribution to the ongoing debate. more...
Keeping it in the Family
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of farmers in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Japan and the EU to examine the special features of family farms and, in particular, the tradition... more...
New Lithuania in Old Hands
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 99.00?New Lithuania in Old Hands? examines the impact Lithuania?s EU membership has had upon the country?s ageing small-scale farmers. more...
Agricultural Household Modelling and Family Economics
Elsevier Science 1994; US$ 229.50Agricultural households, both in the European Union and world-wide, have experienced important changes during the last three decades. This book covers recent advances both in family economics and in modelling the relationship between the farm-household and the farm-firm. Both theoretical and empirical aspects of Agricultural Household Modelling and... more...
Of Time and the Enterprise
University of Minnesota Press 1978; US$ 40.00Of Time and the Enterprise was first published in 1982. Of Time and the Enterprise is the result of 12 years' research in the Canadian sector of the northern Great Plains -- a 7,000-square-mile region that was one of the last areas in North America to be populated by agricultural settlers. This late settlement permitted a reconstruction of the... more...









