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This book investigates the experiences and issues involved with extension systems in post-conflict settings; evaluates the impact of different extension policy approaches and practice in such settings; and identifies the key elements needed to effectively rebuild agricultural extension systems and programs in post-conflict contexts. The chapters contain country-specific case studies that provide a descriptive account but also analyze strategies, successes and failures, and lessons learned. A synthesis chapter provides comparative analysis of insights across post-conflict settings. Overall, the book serves as a collective volume for use by governments, practitioners, and academics in extension policy-making and programming, and contributes to post-conflict, political science, and agricultural extension literature.
agricultural policy --- extension --- advisory services --- underdeveloped Countries --- agricultural sector --- Third World --- Developing Countries --- case studies --- extension activities --- conflict
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Women --- Labor market --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Employment --- Poland --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Community organization --- Demography --- Political systems --- Income --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Business management --- Gender --- Agricultural sector --- Monuments --- Labour market --- Entrepreneurs --- Political participation --- Women's organizations --- Book --- Economic theory
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In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont's dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state's agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Border exposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and powerfully points to the misaligned agriculture and immigration policies impacting our food system today.
Dairy workers --- Foreign workers, Latin American --- Agricultural laborers, Foreign --- Social conditions. --- agricultural economy. --- agricultural sector. --- agriculture. --- dairy industry. --- economy. --- essential workers. --- ethnographic portraits. --- farmworkers. --- food insecurity. --- food justice. --- food system. --- immigration policies. --- labor rights. --- labor. --- latinx. --- migrant farmworkers. --- northeastern borders. --- structural vulnerability. --- united states. --- vermont.
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Diverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Economic sociology --- Gambia --- Contract labor -- Gambia -- Brikama. --- Land reform -- Gambia -- Brikama. --- Women farmers -- Gambia -- Brikama. --- Land reform --- Women farmers --- Contract labor --- Business & Economics --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Labor, Contract (Employees) --- Women as farmers --- Agrarian reform --- Employees --- Padrone system --- Peonage --- Service, Compulsory non-military --- Farmers --- Rural women --- Women in agriculture --- Economic policy --- Land use, Rural --- Social policy --- Agriculture and state --- E-books --- Land ownership --- Agricultural sector --- Labour --- Legislation --- Book --- Daily life
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This paper focuses on Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) 2013–2018 for Rwanda. Ownership of the EDPRS by a wide range of stakeholders at national level has been a key factor of success. The EDPRS 2 has integrated inclusiveness and sustainability as driving factors in elaborating the strategy. Community-based solutions, working closely with the population, have made possible fast-track and cost-effective implementation and increased demand for accountability, in education with the 9YBE construction of classrooms, the Crop Intensification Program in agriculture, and community-based health care programs.
Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Poverty --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Macroeconomics --- Agribusiness --- Demography --- Poverty and Homelessness --- Education: General --- Labor Economics: General --- Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General --- Demographic Economics: General --- Agriculture: General --- Education --- Labour --- income economics --- Poverty & precarity --- Population & demography --- Agricultural economics --- Labor --- Population and demographics --- Agricultural sector --- Economic sectors --- Labor economics --- Population --- Agricultural industries --- Rwanda
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Over the past 25 years, the share of employment accouted for bymanufacturing has fallen dramatically in the world's most advanced economies, a phenomenon widely referred to as "deindustrialization."Many see deindustrialization as widening income inequalities and causinga sharp rise in unemployment. This paper argues that, contrary to popularperception, deindustrialization should not be regarded as alarming, butrather as a natural consequence of continued economic growth within the advanced economies.
658.112 --- 658.112 Site, location, place of business --- Site, location, place of business --- Labor --- Agribusiness --- Industries: Manufacturing --- Industries: Service --- Production and Operations Management --- Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Macroeconomics: Production --- Industry Studies: Services: General --- Agriculture: General --- Manufacturing industries --- Labour --- income economics --- Macroeconomics --- Agricultural economics --- Manufacturing --- Productivity --- Services sector --- Agricultural sector --- Economic sectors --- Production --- Economic theory --- Industrial productivity --- Service industries --- Agricultural industries --- United States
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Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Flanders --- 63 landbouw --- 634/635 tuinbouw --- -055.2 vrouwen --- 316.343.64 boerinnen --- 93 geschiedenis --- 630.8 --- landbouwgeschiedenis --- landbouwbedrijf --- Katholiek Vormingswerk van Landelijke Vrouwen [Leuven] --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 2000-2099 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Belgium --- Women in agriculture --- Rural women --- History --- Farm life --- Women farmers --- Farm women --- Agriculture --- Women as farmers --- Farmers --- Rural life --- Country life --- C5 --- kvlv --- Maatschappelijke organisaties en maatschappelijk leven --- Agricultural sector --- Labour --- Images of women --- Women's organizations --- Book
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This book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities – specifically for women. The findings challenge existing expert notions and opinions about women’s rural land use, livelihoods, and rural development. The book examines how negotiations and bargaining by women with family, state, and traditional actors have proved useful in accessing land in Mwenezi district, Zimbabwe. The hidden, complex, and innovative ways adopted by women to access land and shape livelihoods based on transitory mobility are examined. The role of collective action, conflicts, conflict resolution, and women’s agency in overcoming the challenges associated with trading in South Africa are examined within the ambit of the sustainable livelihoods framework, a gendered approach to land reform and social networks analysis.
Land. Real estate --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Law of real property --- Zimbabwe --- Land reform --- Women --- Agriculture and state --- Women in agriculture --- Migration, Internal --- Reforme agraire --- Femmes --- Politique agricole --- Femmes en agriculture --- Migration intérieure --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Fast Track Land Reform Programme (Zimbabwe) --- Migration intérieure --- Conditions économiques --- Land reform - Zimbabwe --- Agriculture and state - Zimbabwe --- Women in agriculture - Zimbabwe --- Women - Zimbabwe - Economic conditions - 21st century --- Migration, Internal - Zimbabwe --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Farm women --- Agriculture --- FTLRP --- Gender --- Trade --- Land ownership --- Agricultural sector --- Labour --- Government policy --- Rural areas --- Relationships --- Book --- Anthropology --- Empowerment
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The productivity slowdown of the 1970's and 1980's and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990's have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.
Economic development --- Industrial productivity --- Industrial productivity. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.023 --- -Economic development --- -338.06 --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Productivity, Industrial --- TFP (Total factor productivity) --- Total factor productivity --- Industrial efficiency --- Production (Economic theory) --- Arbeidsproductiviteit. --- 338.06 --- Arbeidsproductiviteit --- productivity analysis, 1990s, 20th century, growth, economics, economy, economic development, slowdown, controversy, policymakers, researchers, economists, fundamental questions, measurement technique, econometric approaches, dominant index number, statistics, mathematics, environment, innovative, innovation, state of the art exposition, income, wealth, money, business, procyclical, us agricultural sector, united states, changing environmental quality.
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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.
Agriculture --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Economic aspects --- History --- E-books --- agricultural sector --- Production --- Agricultural policies --- Food resources --- world --- 331.100 --- 331.11 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338 <09> --- 63 <09> --- 631.15 <091> --- 63 <09> History of agriculture --- History of agriculture --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Economische geschiedenis --- 631.15 <091> Farm production. Farm management. Farm administration--Historische voorstelling in de strikte zin --- Farm production. Farm management. Farm administration--Historische voorstelling in de strikte zin --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de landbouw --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- World history --- anno 1800-1999 --- AGRICULTURE -- 330.191.6 --- AGRICULTURE -- 330.35
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