Catherine Phillips at the University of Wollongong, Australia, has written a book on seed saving. Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular focus on seed saving. The practice of reusing and exchanging seeds provides foundation for food production and allows humans and seed to adapt together in dynamic socionatural conditions. Read more at the publishers website
Reidar Almås and Hugh Campbell have edited and contributed to a new book on agricultural sustainability: “Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes. Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture” now published by Emerald Publishing.
This is the first book to try and understand global agricultural policy in the light of new shocks like the World Food Crisis of 2008-2011. This book provides the first discussion of the new term ‘neo-productivism’ in the context of European agricultural policy, and introduces the concept of resilience to discussion of global agricultural policy. Prominent contributors include scholars with an international reputation in the field of agricultural policy, agricultural history and rural sociology.