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An analysis of African subsistence culture, which investigates the failures of national agricultural policies and suggests strategies for inducing subsistence farmers to shift to commercial production.

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A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish periods.

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In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance.

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Are GMOs really that bad A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us

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This is a comprehensive survey of how government policies have affected agricultural performance in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The government helped smallholders triple their grain sales in the early 1980s, but left the country vulnerable to drought, leading to emergency food aid imports in 1992.

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The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in

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Assesses the prospects for a market-place strategy of agriculture, revealing a considerable range of opinion on the subject. Scholars from several disciplines and various countries evaluate the alternatives and principal scenarios for regional trade and market development in global contexts.

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A comprehensive survey of the issues surrounding agrarian reform projects in Latin America and an introduction to the history, land settlement patterns and agriculture of the Dominican Republic. Meyer reviews the literature relevant to the study of reform sector projects.

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This work is an attempt to help those concerned with animal waste managementagricultural economists and policy-makers, environmental and public health officers, farmers, and so ondeal with this critical issue by addressing the problems generated by animal waste within a comprehensive management approach.

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A collection of essays that reviews agricultural progress in Latin America and evaluates its prospects in the 1990s. Convinced that stability is vital to agricultural prosperity within the region, this study defines the obstacles to this goal and develops strategies to meet the challenge.

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Non-Traditional Agriculture and Economic Development identifies the implications of Brazilian economic development of government support for rapid growth of non-traditional agricultural crops such as soybeans.

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Tells the story of a farming community fighting to rehabilitate land degraded by more than a century of farming. This work tells of the trials and triumphs of the Sutherland family and other volunteers, as they set out to restore native vegetation and create the Genaren Hill wildlife sanctuary.

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Michelle McAlpin moves beyond the concerns of previous studies of famine (most of which focus on governmental procedures designed to alleviate it) and examines hitherto neglected problems, such as the quantitative evaluation of food grain shortages, the nature and extent of popular insurance mechanisms in famine-afflicted areas, and the effects of

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This book brings to light the broad range of events and issues which make the end of American agricultural production an impending reality.

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We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with 75 per cent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or over fished. Looks at the problem and proves that we, as consumers, have to change if the situation is to improve.

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Australia's long-unresolved forest conflict has been the make-or-break factor in federal elections, with both parties often arguing that the four-decade-old forest conflict has no practical solution. This work proposes a forest policy for Australia, calling on individuals in the power sector to commit themselves to breaking down the obstructions.

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