Women and smallholder farming

Women and smallholder farmingThis book highlights the day to day challenges faced by women smallholders in regions such as Africa, Asia and South America, whilst also considering how key stakeholders across the agri food supply chain can support, empower and sufficiently compensate women smallholder farmers for their contribution to agriculture.

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beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca

considered by many to be America's greatest writer

It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived

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This chapter focuses on the effects of irradiation on key aspects of citrus fruit quality (internal and external quality and vitamin C content)

Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management

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A variety of nematode genera are associated with banana

On the one hand climate variability it presents farmers with risks and challenges

and eighteenth-century social and economic life