China`s Rural Economy after WTO, Chen, Aimin

Автор: Feng, Jun Wang, Youming Hu, Yunchao Yu, Ji
Название: China`s agriculture and rural development in the post-reform era
ISBN: 1910760110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910760116
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Описание: China`s `reform and opening up` process started in the countryside in the late 1970s with the change from collectivised agriculture to the creation of town and village enterprises (TVEs) based on the household contract responsibility system. This transformed China`s agricultural economy from one characterized by perennial shortages to surpluses.

Автор: Timmerman Kelsey
Название: Where Am I Eating an Adventure Through the Global Food Economy
ISBN: 111896652X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118966525
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A deeply human-centered perspective on the origins of America`s food Where Am I Eating? bridges the gap between global food producers and the American consumer, providing an insightful look at how our eating habits affect farmers and fishermen around the world.

Автор: Chen, Aimin
Название: China`s Rural Economy after WTO
ISBN: 0815388039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815388036
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: China`s Rural Economy after WTO discusses and analyses China`s rural sector problems in detail, including the areas of poverty, income inequality, the gender gap, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers, poor rural governance and the impact of WTO membership.

Автор: Mcpeak
Название: Risk and Social Change in an African Rural Economy
ISBN: 1138242446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138242449
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Pastoralists’ role in contemporary Africa typically goes underappreciated and misunderstood by development agencies, external observers, and policymakers. Yet, arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), which are used predominantly for extensive livestock grazing, comprise nearly half of the continent’s land mass, while a substantial proportion of national economies are based on pastoralist activities. Pastoralists use these drylands to generate income for themselves through the use of livestock and for the coffers of national trade and revenue agencies. They are frequently among the continent’s most contested and lawless regions, providing sanctuary to armed rebel groups and exposing residents to widespread insecurity and destructive violence. The continent’s millions of pastoralists thus inhabit some of Africa’s harshest and most remote, but also most ecologically, economically, and politically important regions. This study summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary research project in pastoral areas of Kenya and Ethiopia. The cultures and ecology of these areas are described, with a particular focus on the myriad risks that confront people living in these drylands, and how these risks are often triggered by highly variable rainfall conditions. The authors examine the markets used by residents of these areas to sell livestock and livestock products and purchase consumer goods before turning to an analysis of evolving livelihood strategies. Furthermore, they focus on how well-being is conditioned upon access to livestock and access to the cash economy, gender patterns within households and the history of development activities in the area. The book concludes with a report on how these activities are assessed by people in the area and what activities they prioritize for the future. Policy in pastoral areas is often formulated on the basis of assumptions and stereotypes, without adequate empirical foundations. This book provides evidence on livelihood strategies being followed in pastoral areas, and investigates patterns in decision making and well being. It indicates the importance of livestock to the livelihoods of people in these areas, and identifies the critical and widespread importance of access to the cash economy, concluding that future development activities need to be built on the foundation of the livestock economy, instead of seeking to replace it.

Автор: Erik Reardon
Название: Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England`s Rural Economy
ISBN: 1625345852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625345851
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 83160.00 T
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Описание: As environmentalists work to restore rivers in New England and beyond in the present day, Managing the River Commons offers important lessons about historical conservation efforts that can help guide current campaigns to remove dams and allow anadromous fish to reclaim their waters.

Автор: Stark David M.
Название: Puerto Rican Hato Economy and Slave Family Patterns
ISBN: 0813060435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813060439
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "Deftly uses the available parish registers to document the stages of the coming of African men and women to Puerto Rico in the eighteenth century and reveals patterns of family formation and bonds of solidarity among the African slaves and with the rest of society."--
Fernando Pico, author of Puerto Rico Remembered

"An exceptionally well researched, highly original, cogently argued and engagingly written work."--Franklin W. Knight, coeditor of Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context

"A welcome contribution to the history of eighteenth-century Puerto Rico and an important model for anyone using sacramental records to study slave life in colonial Latin America."--David Wheat, Michigan State University

Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the importance of the region's hato economy--a combination of livestock ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting--on the living patterns among slave communities.

David Stark makes use of extensive Catholic parish records to provide a comprehensive examination of slavery in Puerto Rico and across the Spanish Caribbean. He reconstructs slave families to examine incidences of marriage, as well as birth and death rates. The result are never-before-analyzed details on how many enslaved Africans came to Puerto Rico, where they came from, and how their populations grew through natural increase.

Stark convincingly argues that when animal husbandry drove much of the island's economy, slavery was less harsh than in better-known plantation regimes geared toward crop cultivation. Slaves in the hato economy experienced more favorable conditions for family formation, relatively relaxed work regimes, higher fertility rates, and lower mortality rates.

Автор: Arce Moises
Название: Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru
ISBN: 0822963094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822963097
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest level of protest participation in the region, Peru has been largely ignored in these discussions.In this groundbreaking study, Moisés Arce exposes a long-standing climate of popular contention in Peru. Looking beneath the surface to the subnational, regional, and local level as inception points, he rigorously dissects the political conditions that set the stage for protest. Focusing on natural resource extraction and its key role in the political economy of Peru and other developing countries, Arce reveals a wide disparity in the incidence, forms, and consequences of collective action.Through empirical analysis of protest events over thirty-one years, extensive personal interviews with policymakers and societal actors, and individual case studies of major protest episodes, Arce follows the ebb and flow of Peruvian protests over time and space to show the territorial unevenness of democracy, resource extraction, and antimarket contentions. Employing political process theory, Arce builds an interactive framework that views the moderating role of democracy, the quality of institutional representation as embodied in political parties, and most critically, the level of political party competition as determinants in the variation of protest and subsequent government response. Overall, he finds that both the fluidity and fragmentation of political parties at the subnational level impair the mechanisms of accountability and responsiveness often attributed to party competition. Thus, as political fragmentation increases, political opportunities expand, and contention rises. These dynamics in turn shape the long-term development of the state.Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru will inform students and scholars of globalization, market transitions, political science, contentious politics and Latin America generally, as a comparative analysis relating natural resource extraction to democratic processes both regionally and internationally.

Автор: Edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Название: The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500–1989
ISBN: 0521521726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521521727
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This 2003 volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Автор: Wright
Название: The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry
ISBN: 0415728282 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415728287
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines key aspects of China`s coal industry which illustrate the political economy of China`s economic transformation. It sheds light on the broader issues of China`s transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China`s working class.

Автор: Reardon Erik
Название: Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England`s Rural Economy
ISBN: 1625345844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625345844
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: New England once hosted large numbers of anadromous fish, which migrate between rivers and the sea. Salmon, shad, and alewives served a variety of functions within the region's preindustrial landscape, furnishing not only maritime areas but also agricultural communities with an important source of nutrition and a valued article of rural exchange.  Historian Erik Reardon argues that to protect these fish, New England's farmer-fishermen pushed for conservation measures to limit commercial fishing and industrial uses of the river. Beginning in the colonial period and continuing to the mid-nineteenth century, they advocated for fishing regulations to promote sustainable returns, compelled local millers to open their dams during seasonal fish runs, and defeated corporate proposals to erect large-scale dams. As environmentalists work to restore rivers in New England and beyond in the present day, Managing the River Commons offers important lessons about historical conservation efforts that can help guide current campaigns to remove dams and allow anadromous fish to reclaim these waters.