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Author: Colin Adrien MacKinley Duncan Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773513631 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 324
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A critical review of the history of capitalism and socialism in relation to agriculture, reexamining the role of agriculture in political economy using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies. Suggests ways in which the original socialist project of developing a theory of political economy, which was sidetracked by industrialism, can be rejuvenated, using England as a case study. For students in environment and political science. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Colin Adrien MacKinley Duncan Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773513631 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
A critical review of the history of capitalism and socialism in relation to agriculture, reexamining the role of agriculture in political economy using ecological, historical, humanist, institutionalist, and Marxist methodologies. Suggests ways in which the original socialist project of developing a theory of political economy, which was sidetracked by industrialism, can be rejuvenated, using England as a case study. For students in environment and political science. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Giovanni Federico Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400837723 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 416
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In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.
Author: Graciela Chichilnisky Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The economic relationships between the agricultural and nonagricultural sections have long been scrutinized, with a number of key linkages singled out - investment requirements and the macroadjustments between the two sectors that permit savings to come forth; nonagricultural demand for employment and food confronting agricultural supply response; shifts in income distribution that ensue as people move from agricultural/rural to nonagricultural/urban occupations and economic roles.
Author: Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: 0896298590 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 644
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Why write a book on macroeconomic policies and their links to agriculture and food security in developing countries? The food price spikes of the years just prior to 2010 and the economic, political, and social dislocations they generated refocused the attention of policymakers and development practitioners on the agricultural sector and food security concerns. But even without those traumatic events, the importance of agriculture for developing countries—and for an adequate functioning of the world economy— cannot be denied. First, although declining over time, primary agriculture still represents important percentages of developing countries’ overall domestic production, exports, and employment. If agroindustrial, transportation, commercial, and other related activities are also counted, then the economic and social importance of agriculture-based sectors increases significantly. Furthermore, large numbers of the world’s poor still live in rural areas and work in agriculture. Through the links via production, trade, employment, and prices, agricultural production is also crucial for national food security. Second, it has been shown that agriculture in developing countries has important growth and employment multipliers for the rest of the economy, and agriculture seems to have larger positive effects in reducing poverty than growth in other sectors. Third, agriculture is not only important for individual developing countries, but it has global significance, considering the large presence of developing countries in world agricultural production and the increasing participation in international trade of those products (these three points will be covered in greater detail in Chapter 1).
Author: David Godden Publisher: Sydney University Press ISBN: 1920898379 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 556
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Why do governments make decisions? How do governments make decisions? What are the economic consequences of the decisions that governments make? Agricultural and resource policy is more than just theory, it is the application of economics to real world problems. Agricultural and Resource Policy develops a framework for analysis and investigates the issues that affect the sector internally and in interactions with the rest of the economy. Agricultural and Resource Policy is an invaluable text for students of agriculture, economics and business. It is also an important reference for those interested in the continuing development of agricultural industry.
Author: C. Peter Timmer Publisher: A E I Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 108
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This monograph, A World without Agriculture, was the 2007 Henry Wendt Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2007. The Wendt Lecture is delivered annually by a scholar who has made major contributions to our understanding of the modern phenomenon of globalization and its consequences for social welfare, government policy, and the expansion of liberal political institutions.
Author: Xinshen Diao Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192584049 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Many African countries have experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years, yet their economic transformations display features that could constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in the informal economy, and a neglected agricultural sector with increased need for important foods are all areas for concern as Africa continues to develop. Using Ghana as a case study, Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and Future Prospects integrates economic and political analysis to explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's transformation. It examines Ghana's overall economic performance since it went through a major Structural Adjustment Program in the early 1980s, and provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the broader economy and the agricultural sector over the last four decades. It explains why Ghana has not transformed its economy more substantially, why its agriculture sector has not played a greater role beyond cocoa production, and what must be done in the future to achieve a successful transformation. In addressing these puzzles Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation considers what the rest of the world can learn from Ghana's experience.
Author: Colin Adrien MacKinley Duncan
Author: Colin Adrien MacKinley Duncan
Author: Giovanni Federico
Author: Graciela Chichilnisky
Author: Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Author: Roberto de A. S. Vellutini
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Author: David Godden
Author: C. Peter Timmer
Author: Roberto de A. S. Vellutini
Author: Xinshen Diao