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  • BOOK REVIEW | Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

    Julieta A. Delos Reyes
    Rarely can we find economics books that are not mathematical yet rich in important economic concepts. This book is for those “allergic” to numbers but crave to fully understand economic concepts related to everyday choices. The book is devoid of mind-boggling mathematical notations and...
    Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024)
  • BOOK REVIEW: Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential

    Yoshihisa Godo
    Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021)
  • Book Review: Agricultural Innovation Systems in Asia: Towards Inclusive Rural Development

    Rasheed Sulaiman V
    This book points to the need for finding alternative science, technology, and innovation or STI pathways to meet the new challenges from South Asian agriculture experiences. While technological, institutional, and policy innovations continue to remain important, embracing a systems approach to...
    Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020)
  • Book Review: Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Science Sectors: Outcomes for Science and the Environment, 1st edition

    Wyn Ellis
    Aimed at advanced students, researchers, sustainability professionals, and development practitioners, the book offers a comprehensive roadmap for assessing the utility of voluntary sustainability certification schemes. Drawing on case studies covering nine agri-food and natural resources...
    Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020)
  • Book Review: Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Greening the World's Food Economy

    Matthew Gorton
    Volume 16 Issue No. 1 (June 2019)
  • Book Review | China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society: Changing Paradigms of Farming by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Jingzhong Ye

    Christopher Gan
    This book integrates current research in peasant agriculture with appropriate and relevant cases, and practical relevant examples. The beauty of the book lies in the individual chapters that delve into the density issues of Chinese peasant agriculture in readable and entertaining style. I see this...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 2 (December 2016)
  • Book Review | Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development by Matin Qaim

    Greg Traxler
    Farmers have been growing GM crops for 20 years and planted 180 million hectares to GM crops in 2015. Qaim provides a thorough and unbiased review of the accumulated research on the risks, benefits, and policy issues surrounding the use of GM crops in developing countries. The book will be valuable...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016)
  • Book Review | Food Security and Food Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard by Charles P. Timmer

    Mark W. Rosegrant
    Timmer provides an excellent review and synthesis of the challenges and solutions to reducing hunger and improving food security, importantly emphasizing the need to rely on markets together with government provision of public goods such as agricultural research and development (R&D) and rural...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 2 (December 2015)
  • Book Review | Becoming a Young Farmer–Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia

    Dominicus S. Priyarsono
    Based on a multicountry research done in 2016–21, this book provides new insights on the socioeconomic mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of aging agriculture both in developed and developing economies. This work contributes significantly as a good reading material for tertiary education...
    Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024)
  • Book Review | Pro-Poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia

    Howarth E. Bouis
    ABOUT THE BOOK: Pro-Poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia is a collection of 25 essays on Philippine economic development, written by eminent scholars, to honor the illustrious academic and public service of Arsenio M. Balisacan. Professor Balisacan’s numerous...
    Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023)
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