Author: Richard W. WilkiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aldea San Francisco (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Migration and an Argentine Rural Community in Transition
Author: Richard W. WilkiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aldea San Francisco (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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The Prairies and the Pampas
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804765650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Argentine and Canadian wheat economies, starting from very similar positions in the late nineteenth century, had diverged startlingly by 1930. In wheat production and export Argentina had stagnated and declined, while Canada had surged to a position of world leadership. This book explains how Canada had outpaced Argentina, a country with better growing conditions and a much shorter haul to port. The author finds the explanation in how differing government policies affected the paths the Canadian and Argentine wheat economies took. The author's investigations center on several key questions: In what ways did Canadian and Argentine policy makers and wheat growers attempt to improve their competitive positions by introducing efficient marketing systems, research, and agricultural education? How responsive were the two political systems to questions of land tenure, the role of immigrants, and political representation in the wheat regions? In sum, how did quite different views on the role of the state affect the outcome? The book is in three parts. The first provides a basic political and economic overview of Argentine and Canadian history between 1880 and 1930. The second part analyzes and compares the two countries' basic agricultural development policies. In the third part the focus moves away from a topical emphasis and shifts to an analysis of major agricultural policy issues in the two countries. The concluding chapter presents some final thoughts on the different paths of agrarian development in the two countries.
Latin American Urbanization
Author: Charles ButterworthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521237130
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally published in 1981 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, Latin American Urbanization presents an in-depth look at a process of social change in an important region of the Third World. In this study, Professors Butterworth and Chance concentrate on the rural-urban migration of the lower classes and the adaptation of migrants to city life. They examine the rural, peasant and proletarian communities from which the migrants have come and to which they often remain loyal even after many years of urban residence. Drawing together in a coherent manner studies from several disciplines such as demographic, sociocultural, economic and political dimensions of urbanization, this book will interest a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.
Mountain Landscapes in Transition
Author: Udo SchickhoffPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030702383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
This book compiles available knowledge of the response of mountain ecosystems to recent climate and land use change and intends to bridge the gap between science, policy and the community concerned. The chapters present key concepts, major drivers and key processes of mountain response, providing transdisciplinary orientation to mountain studies incorporating experiences of academics, community leaders and policy-makers from developed and less developed countries. The book chapters are arranged in two sections. The first section concerns the response processes of mountain environments to climate change. This section addresses climate change itself (past, current and future changes of temperature and precipitation) and its impacts on the cryosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and human-environment systems. The second section focuses on the response processes of mountain environments to land use/land cover change. The case studies address effects of changing agriculture and pastoralism, forest/water resources management and urbanization processes, landscape management, and biodiversity conservation. The book is designed as an interdisciplinary publication which critically evaluates developments in mountains of the world with contributions from both social and natural sciences.
Rural Habitat Transformation in World Frontiers
Author: R. L. SinghPublisher:
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the 24th International Geographical Congress, Tokyo, 1980.
Alfonsin's Argentina in Historical Perspective
Author: Robert A. PotashPublisher: [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Latin American Studies Program
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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And Here the World Ends
Author: Kristin RuggieroPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804713795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Rural Poor in Rich Rural Areas
Author: Dorte VernerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Access To Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200,000-250,000 indigent families. These families tend to: be large, and young, and to escape from poverty as they mature and children leave the household (life cycle); live largely in dispersed areas where basic service provision is often weak and delivery is difficult (in particular school attendance beyond 11 years of age falls off very rapidly compared with grouped rural or urban areas); and be more likely to be small landholders than landless laborers. The structure of poverty in rural Argentina shows that larger households are poorer than smaller households, female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households, young households/household heads are poorer than older households/household heads, the poor tend to work more in the informal sector, and a greater share of those engaged in agriculture are poor. However, poverty is by no means strictly an agricultural problem. Furthermore, the deepest poverty is among the poorly educated and young household heads with children. Without interventions to improve their opportunities and assets, their plight is likely to worsen.
Geographic Research on Latin America
Author: Tom L. MartinsonPublisher:
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Category : Geographic research
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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