Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

In the nineteenth century, industrialised countries started using Peruvian guano as a fertiliser to meet the agricultural needs of their growing populations, but the material was almost depleted within a few decades due to excessive demand. The search for alternative fertilisers with a high nitrogen content led to man…

This article examines how Cuba’s socialist education model is reflected in early childhood education, focusing on the institutional Círculos Infantiles system and the non-institutional Educa a tu Hijo programme. Reading early childhood not as a natural, apolitical stage but as the earliest and least visible layer of i…

AbstractThis study investigates the contribution of agriculture, particularly livestock production, to Somalia’s economic growth and draws policy-relevant insights from Türkiye’s experience with agricultural transformation. So, this paper analyzes sectoral outputs, employment shares, infrastructure and institutional d…

ABSTRACT Contemporary scholarship on culinary globalization has theorized homogenization and glocalization through urban consumption, leaving underexamined the transnational agro‐ecological networks that make culinary resistance materially possible. Drawing on qualitative interviews with thirty professional chefs in I…

Research materials (in-depth interview guide and final codebook) associated with the manuscript "Culinary Resistance Beyond Gastronationalism: Terroir, Smallholder Networks, and the Ottoman Roots of Agrarian-Urban Solidarity in Turkey," submitted to Global Networks. Data were collected through semi-structured intervie…

This study offers a critical climate history of the Somali civil war and how this political conflict proliferated to Somali inhabited regions of Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti and how it was exacerbated by earth aridity that occasioned famines and droughts. This study posits – as its thesis and argument – that climate c…

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Introduction Most global food security assessments rely on subjective expert weights, which limits temporal comparability and risks underestimating governance as a structural determinant. This study aims to address these limitations by developing an objective, data-driven Food Security Index that prioritizes empirical…

In this paper, the school meals crisis is seen not just as a technical failure in welfare provision but as a matter of cultural politics. Drawing from social reproduction theory, Foucauldian biopolitics, and Lefebvrian spatial analysis, the study argues that the lack of public school meals in Turkey shifts the cost of…

International commerce has long been seen as a key way to keep the global food system stable, allowing agricultural surpluses in some areas to compensate for shortages in others. This strategy has led to the rise of highly specialised processing hubs that combine significant industrial capacity with agricultural input…

International commerce has long been seen as a key way to keep the global food system stable, allowing agricultural surpluses in some areas to compensate for shortages in others. This strategy has led to the rise of highly specialised processing hubs that combine significant industrial capacity with agricultural input…

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