Author: Martin E Pineiro
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000242129
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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This book presents the intellectual production of the first phase of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the most relevant papers presented by invitees at a meeting held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981.
Author: Eduardo J. Trigo, ArgenINTA Foundation
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: William C. Thiesenhusen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Paper on the problems of technological change and income distribution in the agricultural sector in Latin America resulting from the green revolution introduction of high crop yielding seed varieties and agricultural mechanization - outlines agricultural policy suggestions in respect of land reform and describes some agricultural development models institutionalizing agricultural credit facilities and technical cooperation to tenant farmers and small landowners. References.
Author: Stephen Sherwood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315440075
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in homes and on the streets. Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, this book explores how development and social change in food and agriculture are fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable. In viewing development in food as a socio-political-material experience, the authors find new objects, intersubjectivities and associations. These reveal a multiplicity of processes, effects and affects largely absent in current academic literature and public policy debates. In their attention to the contingency and creativity found in households, neighbourhoods and social networks, as well as at the borders of human–nonhuman experience, the book explores how people diversely meet their food needs and passions while confronting the region’s most pressing social, health and environmental concerns.
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: John Weeks
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349240257
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, and to produce new and unexpected insights.
Author: Arthur T. Mosher
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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Author: Michael J. Twomey
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313274495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This volume is a compilation of essays that reviews the current status of agricultural progress in Latin America and evaluates its prospects into the 1990s. Various experts on Latin American affairs offer analyses that examine how economic and political changes over the past two decades, both regional and worldwide, have resulted in an imbalance between stagnation of output growth and modernization. Convinced that stability is vital to agricultural prosperity within the region, this study defines the major obstacles to this goal and develops new strategies to successfully meet the challenge. Although the work's identification of the issues that are common to the entire geographical area is of significant value, the author of each essay brings his unique experience within the particular country to the study, resulting in a review of the diverse agricultural conditions that exist in each country, thereby hoping to stimulate further debate over their specific management. Each chapter studies a different country with reference to prices, technology, government policies, land tenure, and labor markets. The effect of increased democratization and the continuing changes within the major nations of the world figure prominently, and together with numerous illustrative tables, the articles provide up-to-date data that help discern current trends in agricultural growth both within each state and the entire region.
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Author: Alain De Janvry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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This paper examines the role of market and nonmarket forces in affecting the rate and bias of technical change in agriculture. It examines the process of generation of innovations and investment in agricultural research and explores, in the context of political economy, the sources of deviation from the equilibrium rate and bias of technical change. It is argued that a theory of the rate and bias of technological innovation must go beyond the analysis of market forces because they explain only a fraction of changes in investment and productivity in agriculture. It is further argued that the roles played by the various actors involved in agricultural research are being redefined as research moves in to the "Post Green Revolution" era. New mechanisms of identification of research priorities, of coordination of research programs, and of participation of social groups affected by research need to be devised to increase efficiency and equity in the research effort.
