The No Nonsense Guide To World Food

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The world food system is put under the microscope in this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Wayne Roberts
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2013-10-15
File : 186 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781780261317


The No Nonsense Guide To World Food

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Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Wayne Roberts
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2013-09-23
File : 185 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781780261324


The No Nonsense Guide To World Music

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"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions. Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism. In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together. Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.

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Genre : Music
Author : Louise Gray
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2009-06-01
File : 171 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523701


The No Nonsense Guide To International Development

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“Overseas aid” and “international development” are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities—and abuses. This guide explains what “development” actually is—and explores its political and economic roots. It shows what can happen in the name of development and argues for a more organic, social approach with those it seeks to serve as equal partners in the process. Maggie Black has written books for the Oxford University Press, UNICEF, and Oxfam. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF, Anti-Slavery International, and WaterAid, among others, and has written for the Guardian, The Economist, and BBC World Service.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2007-10-01
File : 153 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523602


No Nonsense Guide To International Development

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Genre : Development economics
Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : Between the Lines
Release : 2007
File : 113 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781771130592


The No Nonsense Guide To Fair Trade

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From coffee farms in Peru and cocoa production in Ghana to jeans manufacture in China and the Banana War of Guatemala and the Caribbean, this fully revised No-Nonsense Guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' trade around the world, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : David Ransom
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2006
File : 143 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781904456438


The No Nonsense Guide To World Population

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No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page) With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live longer, and how having babies relates to climate change. Vanessa Baird is co-editor at New Internationalist magazine. Her previous books include The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity and, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Vanessa Baird
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2011-08-16
File : 138 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781780260341


No Nonsense Guide To Fair Trade 3rd Edition

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An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Sally Blundell
Publisher : Between the Lines
Release : 2013
File : 104 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781771131186


The No Nonsense Guide To World Poverty

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This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.

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Genre : History
Author : Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2007-09-01
File : 143 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523718


The No Nonsense Guide To Global Terrorism

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This is a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism, and terrorist fringes of political movements. It covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them. Jonathan Barker has taught political science at the universities of Toronto, Arizona, and Dar es Salam. He has researched local politics in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and India. His other books include Street-Level Democracy and Rural Communities under Stress.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Jonathan Barker
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2008-10-01
File : 145 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523572