Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
IICAs contribution to the development of agriculture and rural communities in the Americas
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
IICA: IICA's Contribution to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in the Americas
2008 Annual Report: IICA's Contribution to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in the Americas
The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9292481061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Provides an analysis of the evolution and trends of the agricultural sector and its four main subsectors: agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fishing and aquaculture. Addresses rural well-being and agricultural and rural institutions. Highlights the price volatility and its causes and future uncertainties as a relevant factor to be considered by decision-makers in the sector.
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9292481061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Provides an analysis of the evolution and trends of the agricultural sector and its four main subsectors: agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fishing and aquaculture. Addresses rural well-being and agricultural and rural institutions. Highlights the price volatility and its causes and future uncertainties as a relevant factor to be considered by decision-makers in the sector.
IICA's Contribution to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in the Northern Region
Annual Report 2008: IICA's Contribution to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in Suriname
Report of the Ninth Regular Meeting of the Inter-american Board of Agriculture
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Report of the Director General. Administration 2002-2006
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290397403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290397403
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Europa World Year
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857432541
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2464
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857432541
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2464
Book Description
Cultivating Knowledge
Author: Andrew Flachs
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.