Agriculture, Environment and Development International Perspectives
This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of
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Antonio A.R Ioris Editor
Agriculture, Environment and Development International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics
Editor Antonio A.R Ioris Lecturer in Environment and Society University of Edinburgh Edinburgh United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-32254-4 ISBN 978-3-319-32255-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32255-1
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Epigraph
“…What kind of a government have you?” “Has republicanism finally triumphed? Or have you come to a mere dictatorship, which some persons in the nineteenth century used to prophesy as the ultimate outcome of democracy? Indeed, this last question does not seem so very unreasonable, since you have turned your Parliament House into a dung-market. Or where do you house your present Parliament?” The old man answered my smile with a hearty laugh, and said: “Well, well, dung is not the worst kind of corruption; fertility may come of that, whereas mere dearth came from the other kind, of which those wells once held the great supporters. Now, dear guest, let me tell you that our present parliament would be hard to house in one place, because the whole people is our parliament. William Morris, “News From Nowhere” (1890)
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Preface
The interconnection between economic development, agricultural production, and environmental change poses one of the most challenging questions in the world today. How can we provide enough food and properly nourish an increasingly urbanised global population, while promoting fair and sustainable development in rural and urban areas, particularly in the Global South? The answers to those problems are not trivial, but require critica
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