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The trouble with aid - why less could mean more for Africa
In The trouble with aid, Jonathan Glennie calls for a radical overhaul of the system of government development aid because, he believes, it's doing more harm than good. Glennie's succinct and direct rebuttal contends that aid to Africa has, in many cases, actually increased poverty and hunger and damaged democracy.
Date published: January 2009
Water and cereals in the drylands
Rising populations and the effects of climate change mean that it is an ongoing battle to increase cereal output, particularly in the drylands. Water and cereals in the drylands shows that there is great potential for increasing the productive capacity of smallholder farms in the drylands via a range of water management techniques.
Date published: January 2009
Harvey is not the first to ruminate on the impending doom facing the global food system, but he offers a novel solution for Britain that may also be applicable elsewhere: grass - good quality, grazeable pasture.
Date published: January 2009
The atlas of food: who eats what, where and why
Despite there being enough food to feed everyone in the world, over 850 million people suffered from malnutrition in 2006. The atlas of food investigates this unequal distribution in addition to describing other features and challenges of the global food system.
Date published: January 2009
Global sales of Fair Trade-branded products have grown to US$2 billion since 1989. This collection of articles offers quantitative analysis of Fair Trade and its impact on incomes, consumption, empowerment and the environment of producers around the world.
Date published: January 2009
Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods
Innovation Africa is a collection of 25 papers presented during the Innovation Africa Symposium (IAS) in Uganda in 2006. During the course of the book, real-life examples are used to recommend an "innovation systems" approach to reducing poverty.
Date published: January 2009
International trade has delivered strange, exotic and luxurious goods to all corners of the globe. It has founded cities, built nations, established cultures and toppled empires. It has spread seeds, breeds and, of course, disease. A Splendid exchange contrasts the simple beginnings of lowly merchants bearing a small selection of goods with the slick, globe-spanning phenomenon that it has become.
Date published: November 2008
The end of food is not talking about the end of food altogether, rather the troubling likelihood of the collapse of the global food system. For Paul Roberts, the symptoms are everywhere: the rise in obesity and food-borne diseases, a failure to tackle widespread hunger, and the industrialisation of agriculture to unsustainable levels.
Date published: November 2008
Water - the final resource: how the politics of water will impact on the world
Water availability is the next crisis which is already taking hold. As well as making bleak predictions for the future yields of major cereals and other food commodities, Water - the final resource place responsibility for damage limitation on policymakers.
Date published: November 2008
Why are poor people poor? According to Thomas Lines, the answer to this question is critical because "without understanding the history of poverty, we can't hope to make poverty itself history."
Date published: November 2008
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