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 ...

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

Fabricación de conservas y actividad pesquera

un análisis económico

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 ...

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

Les grands types de structures agraires dans le monde

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 ...

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 ...

The privatization of the oceans

Rich with detail and provocatively argued, this study of the development of property rights in the world's fisheries tells the story of one industry's evolution and provides a useful illustration of the forces that shape economic institutions. The emergence of exclusive individual rights ...

China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research ...

Diet for a dead planet

how the food industry is killing us

Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. In this riveting and timely investigation, award-winning journalist Christopher D. Cook takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system - from farm ...

Guía de etiquetado de productos de consumo

Agricultural trade policies in the new millenium

Local partnerships for rural development

the european experience

This volume of papers has been developed from a report of the cross- national Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

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 ...

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 ...

El campo andaluz y extremeño

la protección social agraria