Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture XI, Daoliang Li; Chunjiang Zhao

Автор: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Lora E. Smith
Название: The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables
ISBN: 0821423916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821423912
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Blue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens-this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.

Автор: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Lora E. Smith
Название: The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables
ISBN: 0821423924 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821423929
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Описание: Blue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens-this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.

Название: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Asia: Trends, Impacts, and Reforms: Integrative Report
ISBN: 9292572989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292572983
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Описание: The unsustainable budgetary cost of selling oil, gas, and coal at low prices has propelled energy subsidy reform in developing Asian economies. This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels, including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Название: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Thailand: Trends, Impacts, and Reforms
ISBN: 9292571532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292571535
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Описание: Heavily dependent on imported energy sources, significant subsidies on fossil fuels present a heavy burden on public finances in Thailand. This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers.

Название: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Indonesia: Trends, Impacts, and Reforms
ISBN: 9292571516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292571511
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Описание: Subsidized energy is provided to all Indonesian citizens. This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity; examines the potential economic, energy, and environmental impacts of reducing them; and discusses options for social safety nets to mitigate the impacts of the reforms.

Автор: Hsu, Robert C.
Название: Food for One Billion: China`s Agriculture Since 1949
ISBN: 0367018403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367018405
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the agricultural policies and programs adopted by the Chinese leadership since 1949 and analyzes the role of agriculture in China's changing development strategies. Dr. Hsu gives particular attention to the measures intended to improve agricultural technology and to the sources of funds for agricultural investment. He concludes that, although the collective system has been effective in mobilizing China's rural resources for agricultural development and in promoting progress in labor-intensive agricultural technology, periodic extreme leftist policies and interference by rural party cadres have caused various kinds of inefficiency, offsetting the advantages gained from collective farming. This is the first book to systematically analyze the ways in which China's agricultural development is being financed. By critically examining the level and nature of state resources allocated to agriculture, the author challenges the view that China has pursued an agriculture-first strategy of economic development since the early 1960s.

Автор: Schuh, G. Edward
Название: Food, Agriculture, and Development in the Pacific Basin
ISBN: 0367006057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367006051
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Описание: This book is concerned with the management of food production and the distribution of food in the Pacific Basin, exploring food's potential for engendering both increased conflict and cooperation in the region. The authors begin by discussing the role of food and agriculture in the international economy and the implications of two contrasting approaches to food security: international trade and self-sufficiency. They also consider the problem of international migration of labor in the region and look at how agriculture can contribute to the development of the economy in individual countries. The book concludes with a discussion of the prospects for international collaboration in dealing with the domestic and international adjustments required to enhance overall growth and equity in food supply and distribution.

Автор: Coyle, William T
Название: Agriculture And Trade In The Pacific
ISBN: 0367166240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367166243
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Описание: This comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward-looking book focuses on the economic and political forces shaping agriculture and trade in the Pacific region. It promises to be valuable for scholars and policymakers interested in the political and economic forces shaping world agricultural trade. .

Автор: Tweeten, Luther
Название: Japanese And American Agriculture
ISBN: 0367160986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367160982
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Описание: This book includes papers presented in a one-day symposium and four discussion-group sessions during the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference on "Comparative Analysis of Food Demand/Consumption and Agricultural Structure/Supply in the United States and Japan" in 1991.

Автор: Westley, John R.
Название: Agriculture and Equitable Growth
ISBN: 0367008602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367008604
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Описание: Specifying those conditions under which low-income countries might be able to achieve equitable growth and reduce mass poverty is a major issue in development theory and policy. Given the preponderant role of the agricultural sector as a source of income and employment in the early stages of development, it is not surprising that much of the theorizing about equitable growth is concentrated on the relationship between agricultural growth and poverty reduction. The adjacent Indian states of Punjab and Haryana have been remarkably successful in achieving rapid agricultural growth and in reducing significantly the proportion of the population below the poverty line. The author uses the case of Punjab-Haryana to test two competing theories of equitable growth: the idea that a "sectoral shift" toward agriculture must be a key component in planning and the converse approach that shifts in agricultural policies, programs, and investments will be ineffective in reducing poverty unless accompanied by a major "structural shift" toward a more equal distribution of land and a more broadly based control of the institutions supporting agriculture. The experience of Punjab-Haryana generally suggests that the rural bias of agricultural policies and programs despite the absence of a structural shift in land ownership has reduced rural poverty.

Название: 15 Years in Afghanistan
ISBN: 9251309361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789251309360
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Описание: Emerging from decades of war in 2002, Afghanistan and its rich agricultural history were in need of urgent repair and reinvigoration. This report presents highlights from the work carried out over the past 15 years, featuring stories and testimonials from FAO beneficiairies.

Автор: Mark Cioc
Название: The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000
ISBN: 0295995734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295995731
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The Rhine River is Europe's most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. He examines the engineering and administrative decisions of the next century and a half that resulted in rapid industrial growth as well as profound environmental degradation, and highlights the partially successful restoration efforts undertaken from the 1970s to the present.

The Rhine is a classic example of a "multipurpose" river -- used simultaneously for transportation, for industry and agriculture, for urban drinking and sanitation needs, for hydroelectric production, and for recreation. It thus invites comparison with similarly over-burdened rivers such as the Mississippi, Hudson, Colorado, and Columbia. The Rhine's environmental problems are, however, even greater than those of other rivers because it is so densely populated (50 million people live along its borders), so highly industrialized (10% of global chemical production), and so short (775 miles in length).

Two centuries of nonstop hydraulic tinkering have resulted in a Rhine with a sleek and slender profile. In their quest for a perfect canal-like river, engineers have modified it more than any other large river in the world. As a consequence, between 1815 and 1975, the river lost most of its natural floodplain, riverside vegetation, migratory fish, and biodiversity. Recent efforts to restore that biodiversity, though heartening, can have only limited success because so many of the structural changes to the river are irreversible.

The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000 makes clear just how central the river has been to all aspects of European political, economic, and environmental life for the past two hundred years.