Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
Author: Orla Ryan
FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM? Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...From the ... |
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Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm
Author: Kirk Kardashian
There's something un-American and illogical about a market system where the price of a product bears no relation to the cost of its inputs. Yet we have lived with such a scheme in the dairy industry for decades: retail m ... |
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Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
Author: Marshall Ganz
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relie ... |
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Author: M. Ataman Aksoy & Bernard M. Hoekman
"The link between food prices and poverty is as complex as it is important. Aksoy and Hoekman have put together a book that significantly advances our knowledge of this link. The book not only explores the conditions und ... |
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Measurement and Sources of Growth
Author: V. Eldon Ball & George W. Norton
Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth addresses measurement issues and techniques in agricultural productivity analysis, applying those techniques to recently published data sets for American agric ... |
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Author: Springer
Concerns about energy security, uncertainty about oil prices, declining oil reserves, and global climate change are fueling a shift towards bioenergy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Public policies and privat ... |
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Author: Annette Piorr & Klaus Muller
The reform of the European agricultural policy aims at stimulating the development of European towards more sustainability and more competitiveness in global markets, by ensuring environmental soundness, supporting rural ... |
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Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation
Author: Vaughan Higgins & Geoffrey Lawrence
This volume shows how globalisation has opened up a new regulatory politics in which increasingly, non-political sites, spaces and agents play an increasingly influential role in shaping agricultural production and consu ... |
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Policy Challenges
Author: World Bank
The main focus of this study is on improving the policy regime in Africa to stimulate agricultural growth. It examines the state of agricultural incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa, taking stock of the current policy enviro ... |
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Author: Rob B. Dellink & Arjan Ruijs
Reduction of poverty is a tremendous and persistent challenge for the global community. Given that the livelihood of millions is at stake, there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes of and the remedies for poverty. ... |
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Preventive Action by the Water Supply Sector in the European Union and the United States
Author: Geerten J.I. Schrama
Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many places regional and local water authorities, together with the water supply industry, are involved ... |
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Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh
Author: Shahidur R. Khandker & Wahiduddin Mahmud
Agricultural development through crop diversification, irrigation, high yielding crop varieties, and public investments in infrastructure has improved food security and its seasonal dimension worldwide in recent years. |
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Author: Keith Stewart
Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses, ha ... |
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Do Current Accounting Methodologies Disadvantage Developing Countries?
Author: Paul Brenton, Gareth Edwards-Jones & Michael Friis Jensen
This report addresses carbon labeling schemes, a high-profile issue and one that has important economic implications for developing countries. Carbon accounting and labeling instruments are designed to present informatio ... |
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Author: Svend Rasmussen
This book covers the basic theory of how, what and when firms should produce to maximise profits. Based on the neoclassical theory of the firm presented in most general microeconomic textbooks, it extends the general tre ... |
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Author: William H. Lesser
This groundbreaking volume presents a comprehensive view of the many concerns of those involved with livestock and meat marketing. During the 1980s, livestock production faced some critical changes. Product and feed pric ... |
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Author: Edward L Felton Jr & Thadford A Felton
The Intermundia Press is proud to announce the release of Food Industry Management and Economic Development by Edward L. Felton Jr. and Thadford A. Felton. The authors, both of whom come from a long tradition of farmers ... |
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How Industrial Agriculture Has Stolen Our Future
Author: David L. Brown
Industrial agriculture has led us down an unsustainable path that threatens our very civilization and the future of the human race. The danger is real and looming before us in the here-and-now. Our petroleum-based techno ... |
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Author: Denyse J. Snelder & Rodel Lasco
Recent history reveals that both the large-scale reforestation projects of the 20th century have often been less successful than anticipated, and that tree growing by smallholders - as an alternative means to combat defo ... |
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Author: Charles C. Crissman, John M. Antle & Susan M. Capalbo
Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. The key to designing sustainable agricultural production t ... |
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