Author: Food and Agriculture OrganizationPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251030110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook, 1990-91
Author: Food and Agriculture OrganizationPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251030110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook
Author: [Anonymus AC00677224]Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251031407
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook, 1990-91
Author: Food and Agriculture OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789251030110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook, 1992-1993
Author: FAO StaffPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251032961
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251027912
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook 1993-94
Author: [Anonymus AC00918892]Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251034750
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Commodity Review and Outlook
Author: Negotiating Economic Development
Author: Laurie Kroshus MedinaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The citrus industry in Belize could be said to exist primarily to satisfy the needs of people in other countries. A business that is highly dependent on global markets and the geopolitics of international trade, it comprises some 500 farmers, many hundreds of wage laborers, and two processing companies that produce frozen juice concentrate for export. This new study examines how those farmers, laborers, and companies define and pursue shared interests, and how they respond differently to the impact of national development strategies and global economic and political forces. Laurie Kroshus Medina analyzes the development of the citrus industry in Belize over fifteen years to explore the relationship between the production of collective identities and the negotiation of development policies at the interface of global and local processes. She shows how citrus farmers and workers, processing companies, and politicians compete to construct shared identities, how they mobilize collective actors, and how their collective action shapes the goals, policies, and practices associated with development. Taking an ethnographic approach, Medina describes how the Belizean citrus industry responds to cycles of boom and bust, and the implications of such cycles for workers and growers. She offers a close look at the major actors—workers, union members, small and large growers, and politicians—as they respond to global changes in the citrus industry. Her analysis is made more compelling through an account of two open struggles in the industry over the formation of a rival union and the attempt to buy the processing company, owned by the multinational corporation Nestlé. She also includes a discussion of the impact of NAFTA on the industry. Medina's research demonstrates how collective agency in Belize has pushed the citrus industry's development in directions that simultaneously conform to and diverge from the trajectories laid out by foreign agencies. Negotiating Economic Development provides a bridge from old to new studies of Latin American social movements as it offers key insights into competing forms of identity for a wide range of social scientists concerned with the human and social aspects of development issues and globalization.
FAO Publications Titles in Print
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Expanding the Production and Use of Cool Season Food Legumes
Author: Fred J. MuehlbauerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940110798X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
The goal of the Second International Food Legume Research Conference held in Cairo, Egypt was to build on the success of the first conference held nearly 6 years earlier at Spokane, Washington, USA. It was at that first conference where the decision was made to hold the second Conference in Egypt and so near the ancestral home of these food legume crops. It has been a long held view that the cool season food legumes had their origin in the Mediterranean basin and the Near-east arc, and there is little doubt that food legumes were a staple food of the ancient Egyptian civilization. The cool season food legumes have the reputation for producing at least some yield under adverse conditions of poor fertility and limited moisture, i. e. , in circumstances where other crops are likely to fail completely. Yields of cool season food legumes are particularly poor in those regions where they are most important to local populations. The influx of more profitable crops such as wheat, maize, and soybeans have gradually relegated the food legumes to marginal areas with poor fertility and limited water which exposes them to even greater degrees of stress. In the past two decades, production of food legumes has declined in most of the developing countries while at the same time it has expanded greatly in Canada, Australia, and most notably in Turkey.