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Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Reserve Stock Grain Models, the World and the United States, 1975 - 1985
Author: Reserve Stock Grain Models, the World and the United States, 1975-85
Author: Willard Wesley CochranePublisher:
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Category : Grain trade
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Reserve Stock Grain Models, the the World and the United States, 1975- 1985
Author: University of Minnesota. Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
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Category : Grain
Languages : en
Pages :
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Analyses of Grain Reserves
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Technical Bulletin
Author: A Systems Analysis of Grain Reserves
Author: David J. EatonPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm
Author: Richard A. LevinsPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803299796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country's premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty long years, he held to the principles while traditional agriculture faded into what he once called "family farms in form but not in spirit." This book is about the spirit of family farming: Thomas Jefferson's dream of an agrarian democracy. What should we do in the face of globalization, high technology, and corporate control of our food supply? Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm recounts how one man faced these issues and where he would wish us to go in the twenty-first century.
Dynamic Programming
Author: John O.S. KennedyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400941919
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Humans interact with and are part of the mysterious processes of nature. Inevitably they have to discover how to manage the environment for their long-term survival and benefit. To do this successfully means learning something about the dynamics of natural processes, and then using the knowledge to work with the forces of nature for some desired outcome. These are intriguing and challenging tasks. This book describes a technique which has much to offer in attempting to achieve the latter task. A knowledge of dynamic programming is useful for anyone interested in the optimal management of agricultural and natural resources for two reasons. First, resource management problems are often problems of dynamic optimization. The dynamic programming approach offers insights into the economics of dynamic optimization which can be explained much more simply than can other approaches. Conditions for the optimal management of a resource can be derived using the logic of dynamic programming, taking as a starting point the usual economic definition of the value of a resource which is optimally managed through time. This is set out in Chapter I for a general resource problem with the minimum of mathematics. The results are related to the discrete maximum principle of control theory. In subsequent chapters dynamic programming arguments are used to derive optimality conditions for particular resources.
Food Security
Author: Panos A. KonandreasPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 9780896290051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Extract: The International Food Policy Research Institute has carried on a research program dealing with various aspects of food security. This Research Report reflects partof this work. It suggests an approach based on insurance principles, by which the international community can contribute to the food security of food deficit developing countries without having to create large buffer stocks and stabilize world grain prices. The objective of such a schemewould be to permit developing countries to stabilize cereal consumption at a relatively stable cost.
Catalogue of Research Literature for Development: Food production and nutrition
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical AssistancePublisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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