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Food Pedagogies

Food Pedagogies

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow buy prepare present cook taste eat and dispose of food. In light of this contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains including schools supermarkets families advertising and TV media. Illustrated with a range of empirical studies this edited and interdisciplinary volume - the first book on food pedagogies - develops innovative and theoretical perspectives to problematize the practices of teaching and learning about food. While many different pedagogues - policy makers churches activists health educators schools tourist agencies chefs - think we do not know enough about food and what to do with it the aims effects and politics of these pedagogies has been much less studied. Drawing on a range of international studies diverse contexts genres and different methods this book provides new sites of investigation and lines of inquiry. As a result of its broad ranging critical evaluation of ’food as classroom’ and ’food as teacher’ it provides theoretical resources for opening up the concept of pedagogy and assessing the moralities and politics of teaching and learning about food in the classroom and beyond.

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The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics

The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics

While the history of philosophy has traditionally given scant attention to food and the ethics of eating in the last few decades the subject of food ethics has emerged as a major topic encompassing a wide array of issues including labor justice public health social inequity animal rights and environmental ethics. This handbook provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the ethical implications of the need to eat and the role that food plays in social cultural and political life. Unlike other books on the topic this text integrates traditional approaches to the subject with cutting edge research in order to set a new agenda for philosophical discussions of food ethics. The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over 35 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into 7 parts: the phenomenology of food gender and food food and cultural diversity liberty choice and food policy food and the environment farming and eating other animals food justice Essential reading for students and researchers in food ethics it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as environmental ethics and bioethics.

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Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods. Whereas spoilage can usually be determined through a simple organoleptic assessment the judgment of whether a food is fit for human consumption requires an evaluation of health hazards many of which may not be apparent through physical assessment. Instead the inspector must analyse and integrate scientific and handling information to evaluate the potential health risk. Adulteration of foods is also becoming an increasing problem and the complexity of the food supply chain requires an understanding of risk points to allow targeted inspection and assessment. Food Safety and Inspection: An Introduction focuses on food categories and describes common hazards associated with each using published peer-reviewed research to explain and evaluate the health risk. It is a practical textbook designed to support the role of food inspection in a modern food industry. There are seven chapters looking at specific aspects of food safety including a chapter on fraud and adulteration. This book summarises relevant published research to provide a scientific context for specific food safety issues and is an essential read for anyone interested in becoming a food inspector. | Food Safety and Inspection An Introduction

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Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U. S. food policy. The update accounts for experience with policy changes in the 2014 Farm Bill and prospects for the next Farm Bill the publication of the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans the removal of Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status for trans fats the collapse of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty stalled child nutrition reauthorization legislation reforms in food-labeling policy the consequences of the 2016 presidential election and many other developments. The second edition offers greater attention both to food justice issues and to economic methods including extensive economics appendices in a new online Companion Website. As with the first edition real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles policy analysis nutrition science and contemporary data sources. The book assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers and food producers but also includes nutrition sustainable agriculture food justice the environment and food security. The goal is to make U. S. food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored. The chapters cover U. S. agriculture food production and the environment international agricultural trade food and beverage manufacturing food retail and restaurants food safety dietary guidance food labeling advertising and federal food assistance programs for the poor. The author is an agricultural economist with many years of experience in the nonprofit advocacy sector the U. S. Department of Agriculture and as a professor at Tufts University. The author's blog on U. S. food policy provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book. | Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

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Food and Beverage Management

Food and Beverage Management

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining hotels and quality restaurants and event industrial and welfare catering. It also looks at some of the important trends affecting the food and beverage industry covering consumers the environment and ethical concerns as well as developments in technology. New to this edition: New chapter: Classifying food and drink service operations. New international case studies throughout covering the latest industry developments within a wide range of businesses. Enhanced coverage of financial aspects including forecasting and menu pricing with respective examples of costings. New coverage of contemporary trends including events management use of technology use of social media in marketing customer management and environmental concerns such as sourcing sustainability and waste management. Updated companion website including new case studies PowerPoint slides multiple choice questions revision notes true or false questions short answer questions and new video and web links per chapter. It is illustrated in full colour and contains in-chapter activities as well as end-of-chapter summaries and revision questions to test the readers' knowledge as they progress. Written by a team of authors with many years of industry practice and teaching experience this book is the ideal guide to the subject for hospitality students and industry practitioners alike. | Food and Beverage Management

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World Population and World Food Supplies

World Population and World Food Supplies

Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less advanced countries can no longer rely on self-contained systems: they must seek co-operation with the advanced countries to supply them with the appliances needed for a more highly developed agriculture. This book at the time gave statesmen and their scientific advisers agriculturalists and agricultural economists an invaluable new instrument. | World Population and World Food Supplies

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Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade. Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue requiring a broad and inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This Handbook represents the most comprehensive compilation of our current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global perspective. It is organized to reflect the wide scope of the contents its four sections corresponding to the accepted current definitional frameworks prevailing in the work of multilateral agencies and mainstream scholarship. The first section addresses the struggles and progression of ideas and debates about the subject in recent years. The other sections focus on three key themes: how food has been is and should be made available including by improvements in agricultural productivity; the ways in which politico-economic and social arenas have shaped access to food; and the effects of food and nutrition systems in addressing human health known as food utilisation. Overall the volume synthesizes a vast field of information drawn from agriculture soil science climatology economics sociology human and physical geography the nutrition and health sciences environmental science and development studies. | Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

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Food Security Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights

Food Security Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights

This volume advances the claim that the FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 is the only existing international agreement with the potential to promote food security conservation of biodiversity and equity. However for germplasm-rich countries national interests come into conflict with the global interest. This work shows that the pursuit of national interests is counterproductive when it comes to maintaining genetic resources food-security and rent-seeking and that optimally the coverage of the FAO Treaty should be widened to apply to all crops. | Food Security Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property Rights

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Gender Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food Toward an Inclusive Framework

Gender Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food Toward an Inclusive Framework

This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural disconnects fueling food insecurity for a billion people and disproportionally affecting women children and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. Three conditions arising from these disconnects are discussed: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights as well as their private and public contributions to food and nutrition security for all; many women’s experience of their and their children’s simultaneously independent and intertwined subjectivities during pregnancy and breastfeeding being poorly understood in human rights law and abused by poorly-regulated food and nutrition industry marketing practices; and the neoliberal economic system’s interference both with the autonomy and self-determination of women and their communities and with the strengthening of sustainable diets based on democratically governed local food systems. The book calls for a social movement-led reconceptualization of the right to adequate food toward incorporating gender women’s rights and nutrition based on the food sovereignty framework. | Gender Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food Toward an Inclusive Framework

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Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation and the contamination of water air and land we find ourselves accountable. In this day and age we are confronted by global warming Ebola the Zika virus lead in our water supply enormous problems of infrastructure including aging sewer lines water lines electrical grids roads and bridges and the list goes on and on. Best Practices for Environmental Health: Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability is a one source major response to all of the environmental issues that affect global health and the worldwide protection and preservation of the natural environment. It compiles broad-based and comprehensive coverage of environmental topics broken down by specialized fields. Topics range from children’s environmental health to food protection and technology water and waste systems infection control bioterrorism and pandemic health emergencies and HAZMAT. Plus it includes an overview of the current state of the profession and sections on programmatic techniques. This book helps solve the problems of disease and injury by presenting expert evidence-based best practices. This first of the kind handbook is essential reading for all environmental and public health undergraduate students as well as a fantastic overview for professionals in all environmental health pollution and protection areas. | Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

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US Agricultural and Food Policies Economic Choices and Consequences

US Agricultural and Food Policies Economic Choices and Consequences

Policy analysis is a dynamic process of discovery rather than a passive exercise of memorizing facts and conclusions. This text provides opportunities to practice the craft of policy analysis by engaging the reader in realistic case studies and problem-solving scenarios that require the selection and use of applicable investigative techniques. US Agricultural and Food Policies will assist undergraduate students to learn how policy choices impact the overall performance of agricultural and food markets. It encourages students to systematically investigate scenarios with appropriate positive and normative tools. The book emphasizes the importance of employing critical thinking skills to address the complexities associated with the design and implementation of twenty-first-century agricultural and food policies. Students are asked to suspend their personal opinions and emotions and instead apply research methods that require the careful consideration of both facts and values. The opportunities to build these investigative skills are abundant when we consider the diversity of modern agricultural and food policy concerns. Featuring case studies and critical thinking exercises throughout and supported by a Companion Website with slides a test bank glossary and web/video links this is the ideal textbook for any agricultural policy class. | US Agricultural and Food Policies Economic Choices and Consequences

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Food Sovereignty Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity Constructing and contesting knowledge

Food Sovereignty Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity Constructing and contesting knowledge

Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty agroecology and biocultural diversity. ‘Food sovereignty’ is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology biocultural diversity equity social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty agroecology and biocultural diversity there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity decentralisation dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food environment and society. Chapters 1 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Food Sovereignty Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity Constructing and contesting knowledge

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Organic Versus Conventional Farming Nutritional Value and Health Safety of Food Products

Organic Versus Conventional Farming Nutritional Value and Health Safety of Food Products

This book presents the results of a comparison of the quality of food products and raw materials such as vegetables fruits and honey produced in organic and conventional farming systems. The comparison which was based on literature data and the results of our own research included not only the chemical parameters important for assessing the nutritional and health-promoting values but also the stability of the ingredients in the fruits which is important from a food storage perspective. The ecological social and economic aspects of organic food production which are crucial from the perspective of sustainable development are also discussed in the book. Organic Versus Conventional Farming aims at academics and farmers but also to anyone looking for the answer to the question of whether organic farming ensures high-quality food the production of which is safe for the environment. | Organic Versus Conventional Farming Nutritional Value and Health Safety of Food Products

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Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

The field of infectious diseases in veterinary medicine is both rewarding and challenging and this book offers small animal veterinarians a lifeline by balancing relevant background guidance and optimizing efficiency. It provides a pathway for clinicians through this complex field by highlighting the most clinically relevant aspects of a wide range of diseases and granting them consideration for placement on dog and cat differential lists. Organized according to a system-based structure all the major clinically affected systems are covered along with a catch-all multisystem chapter for infectious diseases that escape easy classification. The book is clinically oriented based on experience underpinned by published research data. Pathogen-specific information enables rational choice of diagnostics therapy and prognostication for a complete list of small animal infectious diseases that includes bacterial viral parasitic/protozoal and fungal pathogens. This concise reference guide will be an invaluable tool for clinicians as they develop their understanding of and ability to communicate about infectious diseases of the dog and cat. Key features:Provides a clinically oriented quick reference guide Includes all major small animal infectious diseasesContains over 300 superb color illustrations | Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

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Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

How can colleges and schools support the inclusion of family school and community engagement curricula in teacher and administrator preparation programs? The contributions in this book try to answer this question with contributors describing their experiences their programs and their support for the goal of enhancing parental involvement and engagement in Schools and Colleges of Education. The authors and researchers such as Joyce Epstein who is the foremost researcher on the topic have the knowledge and expertise in family school and community engagement and partnerships from both theory and best practice perspectives. The book is designed to be interactive and readers are encouraged to engage themselves in the conversation. Readers are invited to e-mail any of the editors to discuss the questions posed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teaching Education. | Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

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Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies Best Practices for Public Procurement

Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies Best Practices for Public Procurement

Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies: Best Practices for Public Procurement Third Edition provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels throughout the procurement cycle. Including lively case studies and research conducted with state and local agencies across the United States this award-winning book provides management advice and tips on compliance to reduce costs select the best-qualified contractors manage contractors’ performance and prevent corruption and waste. Utilizing the results of new research across states cities counties and institutes of higher learning this third edition offers 18 all-new best-practice documents as well as updated methodologies and templates including but not limited to: a full-length and short form request for proposal (RFP) a full-length and short form pro forma contract (PFC) a letter contract a sample estimate at completion a contract amendment template and a form for evaluation of proposals. Special consideration is given to obtaining services and products during states of emergency. Several additional resources for instructors and professionals are available online including templates and PowerPoint slides. The roadmap and templates contained in this book and available online to readers will prove essential to state and local government agency contracting professionals and other officials and employees called upon to participate in the drafting of solicitations writing sole source justifications writing scopes of work serving on advance contract planning and source selection teams recommending award of contracts or assisting in the management of those contracts. | Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies Best Practices for Public Procurement

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Communicating Construction Insight Experience and Best Practice

Communicating Construction Insight Experience and Best Practice

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of PR and communication in the construction industry with a strong emphasis on communications theory strategy and technique. The editors begin with an introduction to the UK construction industry and its supply chains as well as various elements of PR in relation to the construction process. Subsequent chapters provide a strategic overview practical examples success stories case studies and personal perspectives on PR for different parts of the built environment and reputational issues in construction. Chapters include expert advice on communications for architecture planning building consultancy building products and manufacturers general and specialist contractors construction technology infrastructure and communicating sustainability in the built environment. The conclusion looks at the current and upcoming reputational priorities for communicators in construction as well as the top ten priorities for implementing PR as a strategic management discipline in the industry. This book is essential reading for all construction PR teams students studying both for built environment and PR/marketing degrees and CPD courses and anyone working in the built environment sector who needs to consider PR and marketing as part of their role. | Communicating Construction Insight Experience and Best Practice

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Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

Virtual Reality Filmmaking presents a comprehensive guide to the use of virtual reality in filmmaking including narrative documentary live event production and more. Written by Celine Tricart a filmmaker and an expert in new technologies the book provides a hands-on guide to creative filmmaking in this exciting new medium and includes coverage on how to make a film in VR from start to finish. Topics covered include: The history of VR; VR cameras; Game engines and interactive VR; The foundations of VR storytelling; Techniques for shooting in live action VR; VR postproduction and visual effects; VR distribution; Interviews with experts in the field including the Emmy-winning studios Felix & Paul and Oculus Story Studio Wevr Viacom Fox Sports Sundance’s New Frontier and more. | Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

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Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public administration of land and production and rice the principal source of revenue has received the most attention. However while this cereal has clearly played a decisive role in the public economy of the Japanese State it has not had a predominant place in agricultural production. Far from confining its scope to a study of rice growing for tax purposes this volume looks at the subsistence economy in the plant kingdom as a whole. This book examines the history of agriculture in premodern Japan from the 8th to the 17th century dealing with the history of agricultural techniques and food supply of rice wheat millet and other grains. Drawing extensively on material from history literature archaeology ethnography and botany it analyses each of the farming operations from sowing to harvesting and the customs pertaining to consumption. It also challenges the widespread theory that rice cultivation has been the basis of Japaneseness for two millennia and the foundation of Japanese civilization by focusing on the biodiversity and polycultural traditions of Japan. Further it will play a role in the current dialogue on the future of sustainable agricultural production from the viewpoints of ecology biodiversity dietary culture and food security throughout the world as traditional techniques such as crop rotation are explored in connection with the safeguarding of the minerals in the soil. Surveying agricultural techniques across the centuries and highlighting the dietary diversity of Japan this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese history the history of science and technology medieval history cultural anthropology and agriculture. | Rice Agriculture and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan

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Teaching Exceptional Children Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Special Education

Teaching Exceptional Children Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Special Education

Teaching Exceptional Children is the ideal textbook for introductory graduate and undergraduate courses on early childhood special education and teaching in inclusive classrooms. Bayat’s clear and accessible writing the text’s visually appealing design and the focused pedagogy included in each chapter help make it possible for students and instructors to cover a significant amount of material. This powerful text identifies specific behavioral characteristics and presents theoretical information grounded in neuroscience and child development research for a wide range of disabilities. Chapters provide research-based best practices for effectively working with children with various disabilities in inclusive classrooms. This third edition has been fully updated with recent research and includes new sections on Universal Design for Learning adaptations technology and common challenges in inclusive early childhood classrooms. This book is also accompanied by a robust collection of online resources for instructors and students providing full support including a Companion Website featuring an Instructor's Manual with additional ideas for assignments and projects web and video links with reflection questions a test bank and lecture slides; and an eBook+ offering interactive links to videos glossary terms and more! | Teaching Exceptional Children Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Special Education

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Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice takes a ‘process’ approach and provides the reader with an essential understanding of the purpose policies and processes concerned with managing an enterprise’s workforce within the current business and social environment. Since the ninth edition of this book there have been many significant developments in this field and this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways: Extensively updated content to reflect recent issues and trends relevant to the hospitality industry including: changing labour market profiles and the ‘gig’ economy the digital transformation of HRM practices employer branding developments talent management strategies employee well-being considerations and contemporary concerns over diversity gender and harassment at work. Five new chapters on: organizational culture modern labour markets emotions and well-being careers in hospitality and digital HRM. New international case studies throughout to explore key issues and show real-life applications of HRM in the hospitality industry. Written in a user-friendly style each chapter includes international examples bulleted lists guides to further reading and exercises to test knowledge. | Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

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The Handbook of Communication Training A Best Practices Framework for Assessing and Developing Competence

The Handbook of Communication Training A Best Practices Framework for Assessing and Developing Competence

Communication remains a significant topic for job acquisition development and advancement. As such there are no shortage of classes seminars and books written on the subject. However there are few designed for the corporate consultant that are not aligned with some proprietary system traditional academic classrooms or author’s speculation. These tend to be either inaccessible questionable in their content or specifically aligned with the producers’ interests. So where can the Communication trainers and consultants go to focus on fundamental touchstone research and practices? The Handbook of Communication Training is a powerful template and first of its kind for communication practitioners and academicians who wish to strengthen their professional capabilities. It also acts as a guide and standard for consumers and clients of these services. The chapters within are an outgrowth of the National Communication Association’s Training & Development Division’s desire to provide guidance structure and support for members and non-members alike. It is specifically targeted at those pursuing best practices regarding communication consulting coaching teaching and training. The 7 Best Practices presented in this book represent capabilities that are foundational to the effective transfer of communication promotion and skill enhancement. As such these practices and supporting chapters should appeal to novice and experts alike. | The Handbook of Communication Training A Best Practices Framework for Assessing and Developing Competence

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Economics of Agricultural Development World Food Systems and Resource Use

Economics of Agricultural Development World Food Systems and Resource Use

Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes severity and effects of poverty population growth and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems progress made in many countries in recent years and the implications of globalization for agriculture poverty and the environment. Topics covered in the book include: Means for utilizing agricultural surpluses to further overall economic development The sustainability of the natural resource environment Gender issues in relation to agriculture and resource use The contribution of improved technologies to agricultural development The importance of agricultural policies and institutions to development and trade Actions to encourage more rapid agricultural and economic development This new edition reflects the following developments: Growth in environmental challenges due to climate change Continued progress in agricultural and economic development in many low-income countries while other countries and regions are being left behind Continued growth in demand for higher-valued farm products This book is essential reading for undergraduate students seeking to understand the economics of agricultural development and the world food system including environmental and human consequences international trade and capital flows. It contains a wealth of real-world case studies and is accompanied by a website. | Economics of Agricultural Development World Food Systems and Resource Use

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How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

An efficient and cost-effective HR function is essential to the successful running of any organization. And yet for many businesses it is impossible or costly to have HR staff in every office. This is particularly true for companies who have many branches such as banks and building societies. So what are they to do? Increasingly they are turning to shared services by creating a unit within the organization that typically undertakes personnel administration and basic operational support. This may be delivered to managers and employees through some combination of call centre personal contact or intranet. Creating a shared services centre enables the HR function to redefine its relationship with its stakeholders. It can become more of a strategic player and make a more business-focused contribution. This book explains what shared services are and what they look like for the HR function. It describes why organizations opt for shared services and what activities are included. It sets out the relationship between shared services and the other HR activities and between HR and line management. How To Get Best Value From HR outlines the process of introducing shared services from identifying customer needs through designing the structure to implementation and monitoring. It also outlines the likely pitfalls and importantly offers possible solutions. In particular the book highlights the big design issues including whether to outsource services where a shared services centre should be located how services should be delivered and organized including through the option of e-HR. Crucially it features an extended case study of the Royal Bank of Scotland's experience of introducing HR shared services providing a unique insight into the reality of this new way of working. | How To Get Best Value From HR The Shared Services Option

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