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Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552502167
Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.),Nathan Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585762377
Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136498879
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels and FAO's viewpoint on appropriate recommendations for policy formulation. SOLAW focuses on these key dimensions of analysis: (i) quantity, quality of land and water resources, (ii) the rate of use and sustainable management of these resources in the context of relevant socio-economic driving factors and concerns, including food security and poverty, and climate change. This is the first time that a global, baseline status report on land and water resources has been made. It is based on several global spatial databases (e.g. land suitability for agriculture, land use and management, land and water degradation and depletion) for which FAO is the world-recognized data source. Topical and emerging issues on land and water are dealt with in an integrated rather than sectoral manner. The implications of the status and trends are used to advocate remedial interventions which are tailored to major farming systems within different geographic regions.
Author : C. Peter Timmer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801426014
A dozen papers from an August 1989 international conference near Zurich explore the role of governments in improving the agriculture of developing countries, and how that affects overall industrial development. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Adam D. Sheingate
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691116280
A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies. His considered conclusion is that American institutions have not given agricultural interest groups any particular advantages in the policy process, in part because opposing lobbies also enjoy access to policymakers. In fact, the high degree of conflict and pluralism maintained by American institutions made possible substantial retrenchment of the agricultural welfare state during the 1980s and 1990s. In Japan and France--two countries with markedly different institutional characters than the United States--powerful agricultural interests and a historically close relationship between farmers, bureaucrats, and politicians continue to preclude a roll-back of farm subsidies. This well-crafted study not only puts a new spin on agricultural policy, but also makes a strong case for the broader claim that the relatively decentralized American political system is actually less prone to capture and rule by subgovernments than the more centralized political systems found in France and Japan. Sheingate's historical, comparative approach also demonstrates, in a widely useful way, how past institutional developments shape current policies and options.
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271097916
"Explores the sustainability of American Agriculture, and possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents"--
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000002647380
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 925104600X
This year's special section (Part 3) entitled 'Economic impacts of transboundary plant pests and animal diseases'.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620015
In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War. Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.
Author : Johann von Thünen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230274112
This volume is the first ever English translation of Part III of von Thünen`s famous 'Isolated State'. It deals with the optimum rotation period of woods – a central problem of capital theory which has been studied by many famous economists. Thünen's early approach to the problem compares very well with most of the later attempts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966932080
Author : Parke Wilde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849714280
This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book's attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers, but also includes nutrition, sustainable agriculture, the environment and food security. The book's goal is to make US food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored. The chapters cover US 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 non-profit advocacy sector, the US Department of Agriculture and as a professor at Tufts University. The author's well-known blog on US food policy provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9251093741
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise food production in countries and regions that are already highly food-insecure. The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, represents a new beginning in the global effort to stabilize the climate before it is too late. It recognizes the importance of food security in the international response to climate change, as reflected by many countries prominent focus on the agriculture sector in their planned contributions to adaptation and mitigation. To help put those plans into action, this report identifies strategies, financing opportunities, and data and information needs. It also describes transformative policies and institutions that can overcome barriers to implementation. The State of Food and Agriculture is produced annually. Each edition contains an overview of the current global agricultural situation, as well as more in-depth coverage of a topical theme."
Author : Ritika Shrimali
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811619342
The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of ‘development’, is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India. It says that Contract Farming (CF) acts as a conduit that enables the coming together of myriad production relations (mercantile, finance, productive) to sell agri-commodities to the capitalist peasant. It is an accumulation strategy that brings together various factions of domestic and foreign capital together. It shows that CF as an accumulation strategy is enabled by an active interventionist state and this neoliberal Indian state mediates the relation between the agri-capital and Indian peasantry. The book further analyzes contract farming as a part of the totality of the capitalist mode of production in context of developing countries with a large agrarian base--- asking three fundamental questions – what is CF, how and why is it done and what are the implications of it.
Author : Nettie Wiebe,Annette Aurélie Desmarais,Hannah Wittman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Alternative agriculture
ISBN : 1552664430
Policy-related challenges to building community-based agriculture and food systems that are ecologically sustainable and socially just are also highlighted.
