Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
IICAs contribution to the development of agriculture and rural communities in the Americas
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290399063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Cultivating Knowledge
Author: Andrew Flachs
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539634
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.
The Europa World Year Book 2003
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857432275
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2470
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857432275
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2470
Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Examining The United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Programs, S. Hrg. 109-480, June 20, 2006, 109-2 Hearing, *
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Examining the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Programs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Agriculture in the Americas
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Annual Report 2008: IICA's Contribution to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in Suriname
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description