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Shrimp Culture: Econmoics, Market, and Trade

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Published in Cooperation with THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY

Shrimp is the most important commodity, by value, in the international seafood trade. The shrimp industry has grown exponentially in the last decades, and growth is expected to continue for years to come. For future success in the shrimp industry, shrimp farmers and aquaculture scientists will find a thorough knowledge of the economics, market, and trade as important as an understanding of disease management or husbandry.

Shrimp Culture: Economics, Market, and Trade brings together recent findings of researchers from around the world working in various aspects of the economics of shrimp farming. This volume covers all major aspects of the economics, trade, and markets for shrimp worldwide, with chapters written by experts from major consuming countries such as the U.S.A. and major providers such as China, Thailand and Brazil. The book has been carefully edited by PingSun Leung and Carole Engle, both well known and respected internationally for their work in this area.

Shrimp Culture is an essential purchase for everyone involved in this massive industry across the globe.

International Agricultural Development (The Johns Hopkins Studies in Development)

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Extensively revised to reflect the new directions in development thought and policy, this new edition of a classic text examines what has been learned theoretically and empirically about agricultural and rural economic development since the 1950s.

With 24 of the 35 chapters completely new, the book takes into account recent developments in international agricultural development, especially as these affected the role of the state, markets, and other institutions in development. The authors address three basic questions about agricultural development in low- and middle-income countries: What are the strategic roles of agriculture in national development strategies? How can the agrarian transformation be accelerated? How can rural economic development be promoted to generate jobs and reduce poverty in rural areas? In addressing these questions, the authors deal with topics such as market failures, food insecurity, rural poverty, environmental degradation, income and asset inequality, fiscally sustainable organizations, the changing roles of the public and private sector in research, and input and output marketing systems. Four case studies (China, Indonesia, Colombia, and Sub-Saharan Africa) examine how different countries struggle with these issues as they restructure their basic economic institutions.

Praise for previous editions:

"A welcome addition to the literature on agricultural development... with a wide coverage of its major considerations." -- Canadian Journal of Development Studies

"Presents the views of leading scholars on major theoretical and policy issues concerning agriculture's role in the Third World economies." -- Abstracts of Development Studies

Life on the Edge: Sustaining Agriculture and Community Resources in Fragile Environments (Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History)

N. S. Jodha

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This book deals with agriculture and community resource management in mountains and dry tropical areas. It covers famine, food security, and agricultural sustainability in fragile areas, common property resources, traditional systems of resource management, and their decline under changed circumstances.

Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

Stuart B. (ed.) Schwartz

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The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most comprehensive comparative study to date of early Atlantic sugar economies, this collection presents a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.

Focusing on areas colonized by Spain and Portugal (before the emergence of the Caribbean sugar colonies of England, France, and Holland), these essays show that despite reliance on common knowledge and technology, there were considerable variations in the way sugar was produced. With studies of Iberia, Madeira and the Canary Islands, Hispaniola, Cuba, Brazil, and Barbados, this volume demonstrates the similarities and differences between the plantation colonies, questions the very idea of a sugar revolution, and shows how the specific conditions in each colony influenced the way sugar was produced and the impact of that crop on the formation of "tropical Babylons"--multiracial societies of great oppression.

The Smallholder's Manual

Katie Thear

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Whether you are an established smallholder, or just starting to take the first tentative steps towards farming at your home, The Smallholder’s Manual contains a wealth of valuable information on all the key aspects of small-scale agriculture. Topics covered include buying a small farm, preparing outbuilding, and equipping it with machinery and tools; the kitchen garden, protected cultivation, orchards, and pasture; livestock from bees, rabbits, and chickens to goats, cattle, and exotic species; and commercial considerations, regulations, and organic farming.

Food Supply Chain Management

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Text aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the UK food supply chain, supports those who manage each part, and enhances the development of research in this varied area. For readers involved in the supply of food and its study. Softcover. DLC: Farm produce--Great Britain--Marketing.

Reading Terminal Market: An Illustrated History

David K. O'Neil

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Reading Terminal Market has been at the heart of Philadelphia's commercial and social life from the beginning of its long and tumultuous history. Growing out of the first open-air markets of the colonial city, Reading Terminal Market--like all venerable institutions--has survived to its present vibrant form by adapting to and initiating change.

An innovator in cold storage at the end of the nineteenth century, the market established new standards for the buying and selling of food, revolutionizing the industry. Over the next century, it responded nimbly to the advent of the telephone and the automobile, and dodged threats from the Reading Railroad, the Great Depression, World War II, the rise of the supermarket, and unionization. Today, responding to a renewed yearning for local products, Reading Terminal Market retains its central prominence in the life of Philadelphia.

Cup of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic (Latitude 20 Book)

Gerald Kinro

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Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, Kona has played a relatively minor role in the world coffee market and has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. Many times in its history, coffee growing in the Islands has been pronounced dead by experts, but each time the farmers have bounced back; they have even managed to outlast the sugar plantations that dominated Hawai'i's economy for nearly a century. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawai'i--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.

Rebuilding Afghanistan's Agriculture Sector (Asian Development Bank Books)

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This report defines the needs within Afghanistan's postwar agricultural economy and suggests detailed, medium-term goals for improved performance. Focusing primarily on preparing project profiles for quick-impact interventions, the report also addresses strategies for sustainable institutional development, with attention paid to what steps are necessary to achieve a viable sector framework. Also discussed are subsector programs and natural resource management.

In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 19001995 (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Steve Striffler

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Winner of the 2001 President’s Award of the Social Science History Association

In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry. Providing an ethnographic history of the emergence of subcontracting within Latin American agriculture and of the central role played by class conflict in this process, Steve Striffler looks at the quintessential form of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism in the region—the banana industry and, in particular, the United Fruit Company (Chiquita). He argues that, even within this highly stratified industry, popular struggle has contributed greatly to processes of capitalist transformation and historical change.
Striffler traces the entrance of United Fruit into Ecuador during the 1930s, its worker-induced departure in the 1960s, the troubled process through which contract farming emerged during the last half of the twentieth century, and the continuing struggles of those involved. To explore the influence of both peasant activism and state power on the withdrawal of multinational corporations from banana production, Striffler draws on state and popular archives, United Fruit documents, and extensive oral testimony from workers, peasants, political activists, plantation owners, United Fruit administrators, and state bureaucrats. Through an innovative melding of history and anthropology, he demonstrates that, although peasant-workers helped dismantle the foreign-owned plantation, they were unable to determine the broad contours through which the subsequent system of production—contract farming—emerged and transformed agrarian landscapes throughout Latin America.
By revealing the banana industry’s impact on processes of state formation in Latin America, In the Shadows of State and Capital will interest historians, anthropologists, and political scientists, as well as scholars of globalization and agrarian studies.