The world's wine markets

globalizacion at work

This is a useful work which provides a comprehensive overwiew of the world's wine markets. Its particular strengths are its golobal coverage, its focus on both production and consuption, and the large number of charts and tables with which the volume is replete. With ...

Comercio exterior agrario

fundamentos y análisis

Land and forest economics

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the important issues of land use and forest economics. The authors employ economic tools to study the allocation of land among alternative activities such as agriculture, grazing and forestry which impact upon the landscape. Contents: Preface 1. Introduction ...

Agricultura y territorio en el Mercosur

En este libro se estudia. desde una perspectiva geográfica, la agricultura del Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), bloque económico- comercial formado por Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay que responde a la lógica de las tendencias internacionales más recientes: la mundialización de la economía y la ...

Food policy old and new

This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation. A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy. Looks at the challenges for the ...

Ploughing up the farm

neoliberalism, modern technology and the State of the World's Farmers

Intellectual property,biogenetic resources and traditional knowledge

Biogenetic resources # the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields # are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of ethics ...

Grounds for agreement

the political economy of the coffe commodity chain

A bond scheme for common agricultural policy reform

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is at an impasse. While it is said that existing policies are not tenable, all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a #bond scheme#, as part of reform that pays more attention to society#s aspirations for ...

Las cooperativas agrarias

instrumento de desarrollo local

Las cooperativas agrarias son estructuras asociativas dotadas de una amplia base social, y que se caracterizan por ser importantes agentes generadores de actividad capaces de contribuir decisivamente al desarrollo sostenible de numerosas zonas rurales, tanto desde la perspectiva económica como social y medioambiental. Su génesis ...

Impacto económico de las sequías en el sureste agrario español

Comercialización de productos agrarios

Indice: Comercialización. Agentes y canales de comer cialización. Industrias agrarias. Sistemas modernosde distribución. Formas de compra- venta. Cooperativas de agricultores. Mercados en zonas de consumo. Mer cados de futuros y opciones. Marketing

The end of the line

how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat

Agricultural product prices

In an excellent synthesis of theory and measurement as they relate to agricultural prices, William G. Tomek and Kenneth L. Robinson set out principles for understanding the operation of markets for agricultural products. This heavily revised and updated edition of a classic in the field ...

The economics of European agriculture

The Economics of European Agriculture explains the demand and supply characteristics of agricultural markets, as well as government intervention in agriculture, with an emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan also analyses the fifth enlargement and its implications for agriculture in Europe ...

Agricultural trade policies in the new millenium

Retrench and regeneration in rural newfoundland

Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, this collection of essays looks at the economic, political, and social circumstances thet have led to the current crisis in rural newfoundland. In this timely work, twelve social scientits explore outporters ways of ...

Food fights over free trade

how international institutions promote agricultural trade liberalization

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international organizations alters the balance of interests at domestic level. It traces 30 years of US agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe.

Análisis económico financiero de los puertos de Galicia

1996 a 1999

La pesca gallega en el escenario internacional