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BOOK REVIEW: Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential
Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021) -
Book Review: Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Greening the World's Food Economy
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
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
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
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: China: Surpassing the Middle Income Trap
Volume 18 Issue No. 1 (June 2021) -
Book Review: Agricultural Innovation Systems in Asia: Towards Inclusive Rural Development
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
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: Indian Agriculture After the Green Revolution: Changes and Challenges
This book attempts to capture the challenges faced by Indian agriculture through the post Green Revolution period and assesses its readiness to face emerging challenges. Through 14 chapters, the book weaves together the passage of the Indian agriculture through its various achievements, and...Volume 15 Issue No. 2 (December 2018) -
Book Review: Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade, Development and Culture: Focus on Asia-Pacific
This book covers legal and institutional frameworks and debates surrounding Geographical Indications (GIs) in the Asia Pacific region, presenting both international situations and discussions, as well as how these are applied in most of the countries of the region. It opens up on discussions, on the...Volume 15 Issue No. 1 (June 2018)
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