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Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If
not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific
evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC
tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the
relationship between development and CC, with special reference to
agriculture, the rural sector, and policies aimed to promote
sustainable development. We also give special attention to the
situation in low- and medium-income countries particularly rural
households and small farmers in these countries.The study of
agriculture, CC, and sustainability requires consideration of
natural resources and their uses (land, freshwater, forests, etc.),
as well as the rural sector since land for agricultural production
often expands at the expense of forests. In addition, the use of
water for agricultural production affects the availability of this
resource for other uses in the urban, industrial, and service
sectors. Consequently, sustainable agricultural development under
CC requires an interdisciplinary or at least a multidisciplinary
approach. In this book, we do our best to deal with this challenge
by focusing on issues and topics related to agriculture and its use
of natural resources in the context of CC, but without ignoring the
interrelations of these phenomena with further aspects of
sustainability beyond agriculture.
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development
focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine
countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and
complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by
globalization for agricultural production and how the countries
have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the
world market. The other angle is the social and economic
consequences of globalization for agricultural and rural
development. The case studies included in this book prove that the
contradictory meanings referred above are indeed representative of
different facets and features of globalization.
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