Author: United States. International Cooperation AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Third Report on Forestry Progress in Liberia
Author: United States. International Cooperation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Overseas Business Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of International CommercePublisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
A Market for U.S. Products in Liberia
Author: John R. HokansonPublisher:
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Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A Market for U.S. Products
Author: United States. Bureau of International CommercePublisher:
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Insatiable Appetite
Author: Richard P. TuckerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520923812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. As corporate agro-industry emerged, the speculators took direct control of the ecological destinies of many tropical lands. Supported by the U.S. government's diplomatic and military protection, they migrated and built private empires in the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes. This book is a rich history of the transformation of the tropics in modern times, pointing ultimately to the declining biodiversity that has resulted from the domestication of widely varied natural systems. Richard P. Tucker graphically illustrates his study with six major crops, each a virtual empire in itself—sugar, bananas, coffee, rubber, beef, and timber. He concludes that as long as corporate-dominated free trade is ascendant, paying little heed to its long-term ecological consequences, the health of the tropical world is gravely endangered.
Reframing Deforestation
Author: James FairheadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134665172
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of deforestation wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated. The authors argue that global analyses have unfairly stigmatised West Africa and obscured its more sustainable, even landscape-enriching practices. Stessing that dominant policy approaches in forestry and conservation require major rethinking worldwide, Reframing Deforestation illustrates that more realistic assessments of forest cover change, and more respectful attention to local knowledge and practices, are necessary bases for effective and appropriate environmental policies.
A Market for U. S. Products: Liberia
Author: United States. Bureau of International CommercePublisher:
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Author: Logan CochranePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030607895
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of land and investment, this book sheds light on the broader international political economy of development in different African countries.
Author: World Bank