Current And Emerging Issues For Economic Analysis And Policy Research Curemis Ii

Author : Benjamin Davis
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 925104998X

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Food, Agriculture, and Rural Development by Benjamin Davis Pdf

"This publication is part of the CUREMIS series (current and emerging issues for economic analysis and policy research) of FAO regional reviews on economic and policy aspects of food and agriculture. This volume focuses on the Latin America and the Caribbean and contains four reports on: new institutions for agricultural and rural development; the changing role of women in the rural economy; innovative policy instruments and evaluation in rural and agricultural development; and rural space and territorial dimension of development in the MERCOSUR countries (a Common Market agreement between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)."--FAO.

Author : Benjamin Davis
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 925104998X

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Current and Emerging Issues for Economic Analysis and Policy Research (CUREMIS II) by Benjamin Davis Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Food and Agriculture Organization
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251050791

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-04 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Food and Agriculture Organization Pdf

With CD-ROM "Time series for SOFA 2003-04", in English, French and Spanish. On cover: Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor'.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251057508

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

International food aid has rightly been credited with saving millions of lives and is often the only thing that stands between vulnerable people and death. However, it was a serious obstacle in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations and has been sharply criticised as a donor-driven response that creates dependency on the part of recipients and undermines local agricultural producers and traders upon whom sustainable food security depends. This issue of the 'State of Food and Agriculture' report examines the issues and controversies surrounding international food aid, particularly in crisis situations. It considers the ways in which food aid can support sustainable improvements in food security, in order to preserve its essential humanitarian role whilst minimising the possibility of harmful secondary impacts.

Author : Kym Anderson,Alberto Valdes
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821375148

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America by Kym Anderson,Alberto Valdes Pdf

The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the second in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Europe's transition economies) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time and provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of South America, plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together these countries constitute about 80 percent of the region's population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the 1950s, and there have been substantial reforms, especially in the 1980s. Nonetheless, numerous price distortions in this region remain, others have been added, and there have even been some policy reversals in recent years. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004271074

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Crisis and Contradiction by Anonim Pdf

Since the late-1990s much of Latin America has experienced an uneven and contradictory turn to the Left in the electoral arena. At the same time, there has been a rejuvenation of Marxist critiques of political economy. Drawing on the expertise of Latin American, North American, and European scholars, this volume offers cutting-edge theoretical explorations of trends in the region, as well as in-depth case studies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela. Essays in the volume focus on changes to class formation in Latin America and offer new insights into the state-form, exploring the complex relationship between state and market in contexts of late capitalist development, particularly in countries endowed with incredible natural resource wealth. Contributors are: Dario Azzellini, Emilia Castorina, Mariano Féliz, Juan Grigera, Nicolas Grinberg, Gabriel Hetland, Claudio Katz, Thomas Purcell, Ben Selwyn, Susan J. Spronk, Guido Starosta, Leandro Vergara-Camus, and Jeffery R. Webber.

Author : Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469674186

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Landscapes of Care by Thurka Sangaramoorthy Pdf

This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States. Since 1990, immigration to the United States has risen sharply, and rural areas have seen the highest increases. Thurka Sangaramoorthy reveals that that the corporatization of health care delivery and immigration policies are deeply connected in rural America. Drawing from fieldwork that centers on Maryland's sparsely populated Eastern Shore, Sangaramoorthy shows how longstanding issues of precarity among rural health systems along with the exclusionary logics of immigration have mutually fashioned a "landscape of care" in which shared conditions of physical suffering and emotional anxiety among immigrants and rural residents generate powerful forms of regional vitality and social inclusion. Sangaramoorthy connects the Eastern Shore and its immigrant populations to many other places around the world that are struggling with the challenges of global migration, rural precarity, and health governance. Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.

Author : Abdelazim M. Negm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319950655

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Conventional Water Resources and Agriculture in Egypt by Abdelazim M. Negm Pdf

This unique volume focuses on Egypt’s conventional water resources and the main water consumer: Egypt’s agriculture. It provides an up-to-date overview and the latest research findings, and covers the following main topics: · History of irrigation and irrigation projects · Key features of agriculture, the administrative and legal framework in Egypt · Land resources for agriculture development · Food insecurity due to water shortages and climate change; resulting challenges and opportunities · Assessment of water resources for irrigation and drinking purposes · Impacts of upstream dams, such as the GERD and Tekeze Dam, on Egypt’s water resources and crop yield · Sustainable use of water resources and the future of mega irrigation projects · Quantity and quality of water in Egypt’s water resources bank This book and the companion volume Unconventional Water Resources and Agriculture in Egypt offer invaluable reference guides for postgraduates, researchers, professionals, environmental managers and policymakers interested in water resources and their management worldwide.

Author : Ana Isla
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781442626713

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The "Greening" of Costa Rica by Ana Isla Pdf

Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in these communities, Isla exposes the duplicity of a neoliberal model in which the environment is converted into commercial assets, few of whose benefits flow to the local population.

Author : Shahra Razavi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135911201

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The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization by Shahra Razavi Pdf

In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of informal economies across the world. Yet the economic policy agenda that has been so adverse to many people around the world has also provided new opportunities to some social groups, including some low-income women. In response to widespread discontent with the liberalization agenda, more attention is now being given to social policies and governance issues, viewed as necessary if globalization is to be "tamed" and "embedded". The contributors to this volume address key issues and questions such as whether states have the capacity to remedy the social distress unleashed by liberalization in the absence of any major revision of their macroeconomic policies and whether the proposed social policy reforms can redress gender-based inequalities in access to resources and power.

Author : Olanike F. Deji
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643901033

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Gender and Rural Development: Introduction by Olanike F. Deji Pdf

Gender equality is gaining global recognition as a catalyst for sustainable development, and a proven stratagem for alleviating poverty and enhancing food security in developing countries of Africa, where agriculture is the main economic stay. The book Gender and Rural Development: Volume 1 introduces gender discussions into key topics in the curriculum for Nigerian university agricultural undergraduate studies, with the purpose of enhancing gender responsive agricultural and rural development programs, projects, policies and budgets required for sustainable development. (Series: Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungsl�¤ndern/Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries - Vol. 106)

Author : Kostas G. Stamoulis
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251045666

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Food, Agriculture, and Rural Development by Kostas G. Stamoulis Pdf

The present publication contains four in-depth reviews on current and emerging issues in the economic analysis of food, agriculture and rural development, written by well-known scholars in the field. The selection of the issues for in-depth review was the result of a survey conducted among FAO staff involved in policy assistance activities in the main developing regions. Thus, the choice reflects their and, by extension, the policy-makers' perception as to the main research priorities in the economic analysis of agriculture, rural development, poverty and food security

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251050791

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The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-04 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

With CD-ROM "Time series for SOFA 2003-04", in English, French and Spanish. On cover: Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor'.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Fao Inter-Departmental Working Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251057508

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Paying Farmers for Environmental Services by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

International food aid has rightly been credited with saving millions of lives and is often the only thing that stands between vulnerable people and death. However, it was a serious obstacle in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations and has been sharply criticised as a donor-driven response that creates dependency on the part of recipients and undermines local agricultural producers and traders upon whom sustainable food security depends. This issue of the 'State of Food and Agriculture' report examines the issues and controversies surrounding international food aid, particularly in crisis situations. It considers the ways in which food aid can support sustainable improvements in food security, in order to preserve its essential humanitarian role whilst minimising the possibility of harmful secondary impacts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Rural development
ISBN : UCLA:L0099678351

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Rural Development Abstracts by Anonim Pdf