Globalization and Agriculture

Redefining Unequal Development
Herausgeber: Buainain, Antônio Márcio; Navarro, Zander; Rocha de Sousa, Miguel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9781498542265
• ISBN-10: 1498542263
• Artikelnr.: 49342186

Autorenporträt

Antônio Márcio Buainain is professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil. Miguel Rocha de Sousa is assistant professor at the University of Évora. Zander Navarro is researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), in Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Globalization and Agriculture: Some Observations and Some
Questions, by Henry Bernstein
Chapter 2: The Global Driving of Brazilian Agrarian Development in the New
Century, Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio Buainain
Chapter 3: 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
Chapter 4: Globalization, Family Farming and Foreign Trade in Peru: A
Preliminary Exploration, by Hector Maletta
Chapter 5: The Mexican Agricultural Sector Two Decades after NAFTA:
Expectations, Facts, and Policy Challenges, by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan
Hernandez-Solano
Chapter 6: The History and Development of The Modernization of Chilean
Agriculture Since the 1960s: From Insulation to Globalization, by Alberto
Valdes
Chapter 7: Changing Relations of Production of Agriculture in China under
Globalization, by Cheng Li
Chapter 8: China's Food Security Challenges and Its Foreign Trade and
Investment Landscape in Agriculture, by Guo Jie
Chapter 9: Modernization of Chinese Agriculture: Economic, Social and
Environmental, by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad
Sohail Jafar
Chapter 10: Impacts Parched Souls and Desiccated Lives: What Is Pushing
Indian Farmers to Suicide? by Roopinder Oberoi
Chapter 11: Mozambique's Embattled Savannah: Brazilian Cooperation and
Global Agrarian Disputes, by Lídia Cabral
Chapter 12: Globalization, Agribusiness, and the Liberalization of
Agricultural Services in Ghana, by Kojo Amanor
Chapter 13: South Africa-Apartheid, Globalization, and Agriculture, by Luís
Brites Pereira, Ana Portugal Melo, Vanessa Duarte, and Miguel Rocha de
Sousa