Agribusiness and society

corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation

"Agribusiness & society" examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.How are they changing their R & D and business practices to develop new environmentally oriented products,services and methods of prodcution?And what can they cahnge of their own volition,and where is external direction a necessary condition of environmentally friendly innovation? These questions are explored through investigations of particualr biotech and agribusiness companies-including Monsanto,Ciba Geigy,Dole,and Chiquita-and their behaviour in locations as diverse as California,Europe,Australia,Brazil,and Central America.The authors explore how some have responded to environmental pressures by exploiting new consumer-created markets;some changed their production practices in a sustainable way;while others have complied with(or resisted) state environmental regulation,notably labelling systems and certification. Each study examines how institutional,cultural,economic,political and technological contexts shape the strategies of big business.Topics include " green ...

Development planning

concepts and tools for planners, managers and facilitators

This new textbook in development planning aims to provide a comprehensive and practically relevant guide to strategic palnning at postgraduate and practitioners level.The author aims to bridge the unfortunate gap thath now exists between much development planning theory and planning practice.He also promotes ...

Living longer

ageing, development and social protection

Accelerated population ageing is a global trend.It has long been a significant issue for developed countries,and it is now becoming one in the developing world.The well-bieng and quality of life of older people are strongly conditioned by their capacity to manage opportunities ...

Macro-economics: making gender matter

concepts, policies and institutional change in developing countries

The contributors cover three broad areas - macro-economics and gender, gender and the state, and the institutionalisation of gender considerations in national and international organisations. Using original empirical material, in particular from Latin American countries, they explore a wide range of key issues. These include the ...

Globalisation, economic development and the role of the state

The role of the state continues to be a key debate in economics and development studies. Dr ha-Joon Chang has been one of the leading voices questioning the axiomatic wisdom of what is called the Washington Consensus "free market" view that the role of the ...

Another world is posible

popular alternatives to globalization at the World Social Forum

The global justice movement is giving increasing voice to alternatives to globalization as presented to us by giant corporations and the "free" market. This collection brings together some of the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at ...

Obsolescent capitalism

contemporary politics and global disorder

Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor are demonised as the enemy. In this volume, Samir Amin presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future. He depicts a world in ...

The economist's tale

a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this ruthlessly honest, day-by-day account of a mission he undertook ...

Unholy trinity

the IMF, World Bank and WTO

This work shows how the world's leading financial institutions - the IMF, World Bank and WTO - have been hijacked by the economic ideology of neoliberalism and the interest behind it, particularly from the 1980s onwards and in relation to their global financial, developmental and trade ...

Stolen fruit

the tropical commodities disaster

Fifty or more developing countries still depend mainly on the tropical commodities or minerals that they produce. But encouraging so many countries to grow coffee, sugar, cotton and other crops has been a disaster. Small farmers get only a tiny share of the final tag ...

Hungry corporations

transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain

This work provides a detailed account of how huge agrochemical corporations have come to control the food chain, exposing their influence over governments, regulatory bodies and university research. It examines how a handful of companies have: accelerated the industrialization of agriculture and the integration of ...

The Pinochet affair

state terrorism and global justice

Developing countries and world trade

performance and prospects

Law and poverty

the legal system and poverty reduction

What the market does to people

privatization, globalization and poverty

An engaged, thoughtful and illuminating contribution to the debate on poverty based on an enormously rich body of empirical information." Piotr Salustowicz, Professor of Sociology and Social Work, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany "Broad in coverage, rich in insights..# This is a book that ...

System in crisis

the dynamics of free market capitalism

In the late 1960s the operating world capitalist system hit a snag, exposing cracks that went to its very foundations. At first, this crisis was viewed as part of a normal business cycle of capital accumulation in which markets become saturated. The reaction created a ...