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1 online resource. |
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Globalization and its costs
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Globalization and its costs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Zander Navarro -- Globalization and agriculture : some observations and some questions / by Henry Bernstein -- The global driving of brazilian agrarian development in the new century / Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio Buainain -- From food insecurity to a global food power : will Brazil meet its potential and world expectations? / by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Alexandre Gori Maia, Junior Ruiz Garcia, and Pedro Abel Vieira -- Globalization, family farming and foreign trade in Peru : a preliminary exploration / by Hector Maletta -- The Mexican agricultural sector two decades after NAFTA : expectations, facts, and policy challenges / by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan Hernandez-Solano -- The history and development of the modernization of Chilean agriculture since the 1960s : from insulation to globalization / by Alberto Valdes -- Changing relations of production of agriculture in China under globalization / by Cheng Li -- China's food security challenges and its foreign trade and investment landscape in agriculture / by Guo Jie -- Modernization of chinese agriculture : economic, social and environmental / by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar -- Impacts parched souls and desiccated lives : what is pushing Indian farmers to suicide? / by Roopinder Oberoi -- Mozambique's embattled savannah : Brazilian cooperation and global agrarian disputes / by Lídia Cabral -- Globalization, agribusiness, and the liberalization of agricultural services in Ghana / by Kojo Amanor -- South Africa's apartheid, globalization, and agriculture / by Luís Brites Pereira, Ana Portugal Melo, Vanessa Duarte, and Miguel Rocha de Sousa -- About the contributors. |
| Summary |
This book provides a detailed analysis of recent agricultural development in selected countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia within the context of globalization. It reveals the different and often contradictory facets of globalization in terms of social and economic benefits, and also its consequences on agricultural and rural development. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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Developing countries. |
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Globalization -- Developing countries.
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Globalization. |
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Economic development -- Developing countries.
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Food security -- Developing countries.
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Economic development. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics. |
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Food security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. |
| Added Author |
Buainain, Antônio Márcio, editor.
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Sousa, Miguel Rocha de, editor.
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Navarro, Zander, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Globalization and agriculture. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498542265 (DLC) 2017037459 |
| ISBN |
9781498542272 (electronic) |
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1498542271 |
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9781498542265 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1498542263 |
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