Study on the State of Agriculture in the Caribbean, 

Название: Globalization, agriculture and food in the caribbean
ISBN: 1137538368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137538369
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. It explores research from a number of Caribbean islands dealing with a range of issues related to agriculture and food in the context of globalization and climate change.

Автор: Louis A. Perez Jr.
Название: Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
ISBN: 1469651424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469651422
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Perez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place.

Efforts to diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on the Cuban market as Cubans were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to control Cuban rice markets. Perez's chronicle culminates in the 1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island, as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista. U.S. interests prevailed—a success, Perez argues, that contributed to undermining Batista's capacity to govern. Cuba's inability to develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice, but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.

Автор: McKinley Shepherd W.
Название: Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
ISBN: 0813064619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813064611
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions.Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold develops an overarching view of what can be considered one of many key factors in the birth of southern industry. This top-down, bottom-up history (business, labor, social, and economic) analyzes an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.

Автор: Helferich Gerard
Название: High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
ISBN: 1496815718 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496815712
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against such timeless adversaries as weeds, insects, and drought, as well as such twenty-first-century threats as globalization. Over the course of the season, Helferich describes how this singular crop has stamped American history and culture like no other. Then, as Killebrew prepares to harvest his cotton, two hurricanes named Katrina and Rita devastate the Gulf Coast and barrel inland. Killebrew’s tale is at once a glimpse into our nation’s past, a rich commentary on our present, and a plain-sighted vision of the future of farming in the Mississippi Delta.On first publication, High Cotton won the Authors Award from the Mississippi Library Association. This updated edition includes a new afterword, which resumes the story of Zack Killebrew and his family, discusses how cotton farming has continued to change, and shows how the Delta has retained its elemental character.

Автор: Howard Albert
Название: The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture
ISBN: 1849025142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849025140
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 18910.00 T
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Описание: Sir Albert Howard presents a summary of his life's work in this book. Howard states "This law is true for soil, plant, animal, and man: the health of these four is one connected chain. Any weakness or defect in the health of any earlier link in the chain is carried on to the next and succeeding links, until it reaches the last, namely, man." Howard's work, decades ahead of its time, provides an insight into how he realized the value of organic methods though he went to India intending to teach the use of chemical fertilizers and chemical pest control. This text has been published under the title "The Soil and Health" and also under the title "Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease".

Название: State of Food and Agriculture 2018
ISBN: 9251305684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789251305683
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 58210.00 T
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Описание: Analyses migratory flows - internal and international - and how they are linked to processes of economic development, demographic change, and natural-resource pressure. The focus is on rural migration, the many forms it takes and the important role it plays in both developing and developed countries.

Автор: Mesa-Lago Carmelo
Название: Voices of Change in Cuba from the Non-State Sector
ISBN: 0822965097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965091
Издательство: Turpin
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Цена: 45590.00 T
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Описание: More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent of the country`s labor force, currently make up the nonstate sector. This development represents a crucial structural reform implemented by Raul Castro since becoming Cuba`s leader in 2006, and may become the most dynamic economic force for the country`s future.

Автор: Wedig
Название: Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture
ISBN: 1138070513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138070516
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 148010.00 T
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Описание: Agriculture contributes more to Africa`s GDP than any other sector, and small farms are the largest food producer and a major source of employment and export earnings. However, productivity remains low and destitution among small producers is widespread. This book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the revival of Africa`s cooperatives.