The World of Agricultural Economics: An Introduction (Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics)

PThis textbook differs from those hitherto available in that it takes a properly international approach to the subject of agricultural economics, is extremely user friendly and adaptable to readers from a plethora of perspectives and is laced throughout with real world examples, case studies and other pedagogical features./P PTopics covered are wide ranging and include:/P P- world food production and population, the global food trade and trade politics/P P- food safety and the food chainBR BR- coverage of market and subsistence oriented food production /P P- arable and animal production and management at farm level/P P- environmental impacts and socioeconomic aspects on agriculture/P PThe main purpose of this book is as an introduction to agricultural economics, but its scope is broad enough to serve as a guide to global agriculture in general. /P