Download or read book An Economic Study of Small Scale Agricultural Production in Jamaica with Particular Reference to Possibilities of Change written by D. T. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jamaican Small scale Farmer written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate Change and Agriculture in Jamaica written by R. Selvaraju and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ctives of the study are: (i) to review current knowledge on vulnerability, past trends in climate, and impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture sector, and (ii) to explore technical and policy alternatives in order to cope with and adapt to impacts of climate variability and change more effectively. The study identified what the potential impacts are, considered what interventions are appropriate, and if and where they should occur. The scope of the study focused on broader policy directions and investment priorities in relation to climate change adaptation. The first two chapters of this book present overall background on the agriculture sector and vulnerability context. Chapter 2 specifically presents vulnerability of agro-ecosystems and food production systems in both temporal and special dimensions. Chapter 3 elaborates on the nature of climate variability and expected future changes in climate. The past trends in climate were described based on observation, analysi

Download or read book A Select Bibliography of Reference Material Providing an Introduction to the Study of Jamaican Agriculture written by Edgar S. Steer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seminar on cropping systems yam vegetable ginger irish potato pulses written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Select Bibliography of Reference Material Providing an Introduction to the Study of Jamaica Agriculture written by Jamaica. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Division of Economics and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jamaican Agriculture written by Edmund George Roper and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on an Economic Study of Small Farming in Jamaica written by David Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Index to Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees in the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Overview of Agricultural Development in Jamaica written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Organization of Small scale Farming Based on Banana Coconut and Cocoa written by Jamaica. Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Division of Economics and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Growing What We Eat Eating What We Grow written by Beth Timmers and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Spanish colonization in the 15th century until today, Jamaica's agri-food system has been firmly linked to a global network of trade through its agricultural exports and food imports. Common assumptions in critical food studies literature imply that countries with close links to global food and agricultural trade come at the expense of their own domestic food systems. In Jamaica, most scholarly attention focuses on the negative impacts of liberalized agricultural trade, structural adjustment and food import dependence on the country's food system, which render it largely irrelevant. However, the domestic food system, encompassing production, trade and consumption of food on the island, is still very much relevant today. What explains the endurance of Jamaica's domestic food system despite the country's strong reliance on food and agricultural imports and exports? This dissertation makes the case that the domestic food system endures because it serves integral roles in society through its diversity, flexibility and embeddedness, qualities that tend to be obfuscated by dominant bodies of critical food studies scholarship. The central objectives of the research are: (1) to explain three specific roles that Jamaica's domestic food system serves today; (2) to bring insights to critical food scholarship, specifically, food sovereignty and alternative food networks (AFN) scholarship by applying a conceptual framing that analyzes the ways that Jamaica's domestic food system is embedded in its particular social, ecological and historical context; and (3) to provide reflections on the policies that could support Jamaica's current efforts to support its domestic food system. The findings presented in this dissertation result from fieldwork conducted in Jamaica in 2015 and 2016 designed to investigate the specific roles the domestic food system serves today, in response to the research question. Using an interpretivist case study approach, this dissertation relies on mixed methods research, including a comprehensive literature review of food and agricultural development in Jamaica, a household survey (n=702) of food security levels in Kingston, conducted as part of a broader research program on food security, triangulated with direct observation in locales where people purchase food, key informant interviews with stakeholders in the food system (n=17) and semi-structured interviews with small-scale farmers and food traders (n=45) in Kingston and Jamaica's bread basket in the southern region of St. Elizabeth. The data collected in the course of this research show that the supply chain of food that is grown and eaten on the island serves three distinct functions that are deeply embedded in society and play important roles related to: 1) urban food access; 2) informal livelihoods; and 3) food culture. These three main functions that emerged from the data thus form the core of my argument. First, the data show that the domestic food system enables access to a range of fresh produce for Jamaica's urban population, specifically in its capital city, Kingston. Second, the domestic food system is a source of income for Jamaica's small-scale farmers and food traders. Farmers' and traders' are, and have always been, firmly linked to a capitalist market in a myriad of ways, yet also embedded in the informal economy. Lastly, the domestic food system represents an integral part of Jamaicans' individual and national identity, fostering both farmers' and eaters' sense of place. Small-scale farmers still draw on a range of place-specific agricultural techniques, and the Jamaican diet remains characteristically creole, drawing on imports as well as domestically grown food. Further, the state has a history of supporting the domestic food system as a way to articulate the country's national identity. This dissertation analyzes the bricolage of everyday activities that keep the domestic food system consistently relevant and, in many cases, vibrant. This dissertation adds theoretical nuance to critical food studies by framing Jamaica's domestic food system as part of a diverse economy, a concept created by economic geographers to study the embeddedness of markets in society. The framework, when contextualized in the specific political economic context of former plantation economies, reveals the unique, complex ways that domestic food system in Jamaica simultaneously circumvent and reproduce global food system dynamics. It is important to understand the roles and functions of the domestic food system in countries that rely on imported food to get a more complete picture of how localized food systems can co-reside with high reliance global food and agricultural markets. The results presented in this dissertation provide an in-depth, contextualized analysis of the current state of Jamaica's domestic food system that are likely to be relevant to the Government of Jamaica's contemporary efforts reduce dependence on imported food.

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Support for the generation and transfer of agricultural technology in Jamaica written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Agricultural Research in Jamaica written by and published by IICA. This book was released on 1965 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.