A research agenda for global rural development: edited by Terry Marsden, Claire Lamine and Sergio Schneider, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 256 pp., £95.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78897 418 9; £30.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 80220 644 9. The eBook version is priced from £25.00 from Google Play, ebooks.com and other eBook vendors, while in print the book can be ordered from the Edward Elgar Publishing website

"A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development" is a book edited by Terry Marsden, Claire Lamine, and Sergio Schneider that aims to outline the areas that should shape research into rural development in the coming years. The book covers a range of topics including rurality, governance, agriculture, food policy, and the financialization of agri-food systems. While the book provides an ambitious review of interdisciplinary subject areas, it requires prior knowledge and experience to fully understand the arguments presented. The book concludes with a research agenda on rural development, calling for research into corporate control, sustainable place-making, rural communities, and the relationships between humans and nature. Although the book claims to be global in scope, it heavily relies on research from the UK, France, and Brazil. Overall, the book offers an interesting contribution to rural studies and provides a broad description of the issues facing global development. [Extracted from the article]