There are more than 60 million smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Declining soil fertility is a fundamental impediment to agricultural growth and a major reason for slow growth in food production in SSA. In Africa, as a result of soil degradation, irrigated lands may be, on...

The Wenchuan earthquake affected 20 cities, 158 counties, and 3,655 towns and villages. Geographic and demographic conditions varied significantly from small, rural villages to county-level cities, as did the magnitude of the physical damages. The reconstruction strategy and plan, inclusive of...

The goal of the present paper resides in the comparative analysis of the statistical FAOSTAT data and information in the last 25 years, for the EU countries and other European countries, completed with data and information from the well known literature and from webographics, refering to the...

The aim of this chapter is ultimately addressed to interpreting the recent phenomenon of the contemporary Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) - popularly referred to as "Land Grabbing" (LG) - in light of Sraffa's notion of "viability".The most generally recognized factors behind the recent...