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Food and agriculture in Ethiopia : progress and policy challenges
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ISBN: 0812208617 0812245296 1322512108 Year: 2012 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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The perception of Ethiopia projected in the media is often one of chronic poverty and hunger, but this bleak assessment does not accurately reflect most of the country today. Ethiopia encompasses a wide variety of agroecologies and peoples. Its agriculture sector, economy, and food security status are equally complex. In fact, since 2001 the per capita income in certain rural areas has risen by more than 50 percent, and crop yields and availability have also increased. Higher investments in roads and mobile phone technology have led to improved infrastructure and thereby greater access to markets, commodities, services, and information. In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises. It examines the key issues, constraints, and opportunities that are likely to shape a food-secure future in Ethiopia, focusing on land quality, crop production, adoption of high-quality seed and fertilizer, and household income. Students, researchers, policy analysts, and decisionmakers will find this book a useful overview of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation as well as a resource for major food policy issues in Ethiopia. Contributors: Dawit Alemu, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin, Sarah Coll-Black, Paul Dorosh, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Sinafikeh Asrat Gemessa, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Graham, Kibrom Tafere Hirfrfot, John Hoddinott, Adam Kennedy, Neha Kumar, Mehrab Malek, Linden McBride, Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen, Asfaw Negassa, Shahidur Rashid, Emily Schmidt, David Spielman, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Seneshaw Tamiru, James Thurlow, William Wiseman.


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Géoagronomie, paysage et projets de territoire : sur les traces de Jean-Pierre Deffontaines
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ISSN: 17724120 ISBN: 9782759218561 2759218562 Year: 2012 Publisher: Versailles : Quae,

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Etude pluridisciplinaire sur la géoagronomie qui rend compte de la transformation des organisations spatiales agricoles et de leur intégration dans les territoires. Dans la continuité du travail de J.-P. Deffontaines, basé sur trois piliers (agronomie, paysage et projet), agronomes, géographes, informaticiens et modélisateurs inscrivent l'agronomie dans une dimension intégratrice.


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Atlas de l'agriculture : comment nourrir le monde en 2050?
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ISSN: 12720151 ISBN: 9782746732070 2746732076 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : Autrement,


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Des hommes aux champs : pour une archéologie des espaces ruraux du néolithique au Moyen Age
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ISBN: 9782753521018 2753521018 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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A partir des données archéologiques accumulées grâce au développement de l'archéologie préventive, cette étude examine le fonctionnement interne et les traductions spatiales et paysagères des agrosystèmes du néolithique au Moyen Age, de la ferme au village et du terroir cultivé aux espaces réputés marginaux.


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Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic
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ISBN: 9401783578 9400745028 9786613697912 9400745036 128078752X Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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Farming Systems Research has three core characteristics: it builds on systems thinking, it depends on the close collaboration between social and biophysical sciences, and it relies on participation to build co-learning processes. Farming Systems Research posits that to contribute towards sustainable rural development, both interdisciplinary collaborations and local actor engagement are needed. Together, they allow for changes in understanding and changes in practices. This book gives an overview of the insights generated in 20 years of Farming Systems Research. It retraces the emergence and development of Farming Systems Research in Europe, summarises the state-of-the-art for key areas, and provides an outlook on new explorations, especially those tackling the dynamic nature of farming systems and their interaction with the natural environment and the context of action. We hope this book will serve as an inspiration for all those who seek an alternative approach to research in farming and rural development. One that builds on the reflexivity of researchers, one that takes the role of human subjectivities and perceptions seriously, one that gives voice to farmers, one that emphasises participation and co-learning processes, one that focuses on interactions between the elements, one that allows to capture interdependencies and their dynamics. There is no doubt that Farming Systems Research has much to offer to answer the challenges faced by rural areas in the current turbulent and uncertain times. The book is thus aimed at practitioners, at graduate students and at researchers who seek new inspiration outside the mainstream, who take into account the ethical dimension of their work, and who seek encouragement to deepen their reflexivity about the meaning of professional practice and about their approach to research.


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Food practices in transition : changing food consumption, retail and production in the age of reflexive modernity
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ISBN: 9780415880848 9780203135921 041588084X 1136485449 020313592X 9781136485442 9781136485398 9781136485435 1136485430 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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"This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of "sustainability"-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and production."--

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