World Development Report 2008

World Development Report 2008
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368095

The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.

Silvopastoral Systems in Southern South America

Silvopastoral Systems in Southern South America
Author: Pablo Luis Peri
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319241095

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading researchers and professionals in silvopastoral systems topic in Southern South America (Argentina, Chile and South Brazil). It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on different components and aspects (pasture production, animal production, trees production, carbon sequestration, conservation) of silvopatoral systems in native forests and tree plantations. The main hypothesis of the book is that farmers have integrated tree and pasture/grassland species in their land use systems to reach higher production per unit of land area, risk avoidance, product diversification, and sustainability. These production systems also impact positively in main ecosystem processes. Management of these productive systems, Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects provide great opportunities and challenges for farmers and policy makers in our region. The book is unique on this subject in Southern South America and constitutes a valuable reference material for graduate students, professors, scientists and extensionists who work with silvopastoral systems.

A Companion to Environmental Geography

A Companion to Environmental Geography
Author: Noel Castree
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2009-02-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781444305739

A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has traditionally been seen as divided; presenting work by human and physical geographers in the same volume Presents both the current 'state of the art' research and charts future possibilities for the discipline Extends the term 'environmental geography' beyond its 'traditional' meanings to include new work on nature and environment by human and physical geographers - not just hazards, resources, and conservation geographers Contains essays from an outstanding group of international contributors from among established scholars and rising stars in geography

Taking Southeast Asia to Market

Taking Southeast Asia to Market
Author: Joseph Nevins
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501732277

Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region. In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.

Rents to Riches?

Rents to Riches?
Author: Naazneen Barma
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821384805

Rents to Riches> focuses on the political economy of the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the natural resource management (NRM) value chain. Many resource-dependent developing countries pursue seemingly shortsighted and suboptimal policies when extracting, taxing, and investing resource rents. The book contextualizes these micro-level outcomes with an emphasis on two central political economy dimensions: the degree to which governments can make credible intertemporal commitments to both resource developers and citizens, and the degree to which governments and inclined to turn resource rents into public goods. Almost 1.5 billion people live in the more than 50 World Bank client countries classified as resource-dependent. A detailed understanding of the way political economy characteristics affect the NRM decisions made in these countries by governments, extractive developers, and society can improve the design of interventions to support welfare-enhancing policy making and governance in the natural resource sectors. Featuring case study work from Africa (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria), East Asia and Pacific (the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Timor-Leste), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad an dTobago_, the book provides guidance for government clients, domestic stakeholders, and development partners committed to transforming natural resource into sustainable development riches.

Now We Are Citizens

Now We Are Citizens
Author: Nancy Grey Postero
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804755207

The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.

Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources

Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources
Author: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Forest germplasm resources conservation
ISBN: 9789251084229

Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Strategic priorities for action. Priority area 1 : Improving the availability of, and access to, information on FGR -- Priority area 2 : In situ and ex situ conservation of FGR -- Priority area 3 : Sustainable use, development and management of FGR -- Priority area 4 : Policies, institutions and capacity-building

Ecological Principles of Agriculture

Ecological Principles of Agriculture
Author: Laura E. Powers
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Introduction to ecology and ecological principles for agricultural students with no prior coursework in ecology.

A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante

A Tale of the Dispossessed/La Multitud Errante
Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 006072370X

From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.