Download or read book The Political Economy of Technological Change Mechanization of Tomato Harvesting in California written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Gold Producers in Paraguay written by Daniel Campos Ruiz Díaz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Research of Interest to Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Economy Of Mechanization In U s Agriculture written by Barry Price and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearings, and lawsuits. (The recent case pitting the University of California’s prestigious agriculture research establishment against Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is a prominent example of such litigation.) A key question in the controversy is whether federal and state governments should continue to invest more than $1 billion per year in the development of large-scale, capital-intensive technologies known to have significant social costs. Opponents of continued public support for these new technologies argue that they will eliminate thousands of farm jobs when the nation already suffers from a serious unemployment problem; proponents contend that such capital-intensive technologies keep food prices down for consumers while generating the potential for increased wages for farm workers. This book explores both sides of the debate, tracing the history of the mechanization issue and assessing the economic and sociological bases of the opposing positions. Maintaining that present methods of analysis are not adequate for resolving the conflict, Professor Price suggests an alternative approach, highlighted by a detailed case study of the costs and benefits generated by a new harvest technology adopted in the tomato-processing industry in California. He singles out the role of market structure as the most important variable in the distribution of benefits resulting from mechanization. Finally he relates his research findings to policy alternatives concerning farm mechanization in general, as well as to other problems involving technological change.
Download or read book Aspects Of The Political Economy Of Technical Change On Developed Economies written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technological Change and Social Relations of Production written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tipologia de Pequenos Productores Campesinos written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proyecto Cooperativo de Investigacion Sobre Tecnologia Agropecuaria en America Latina protaal written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proyecto Cooperativo de Investigacion Sobre Tecnologia Agropecuaria en America Latina written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proyecto Cooperativo de Investigacion Sobre Tecnologia Agropecaria en America Latina protaal written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature Traditional fields of agricultural economics 1940s to 1970s written by Lee R. Martin and published by Minneapolis : Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the American Agricultural Economics Association, c1977- .. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies written by Gigi M Berardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although formal social impact assessment of changing technologies in U.S. agriculture is still in its infancy, scholars have been documenting the effects of new technology throughout the twentieth century. In this collection, Prcfessors Berardi and Geisler bring together historically relevant research and a carefully chosen cross section of contemporary work. Their review of the literature is followed by an evaluation of the effects of mechanization on labor and production, written in 1904, which provides a backdrop for papers from the 1940s and 1950s examining the mechanization of agriculture in the South, in the Midwest, and in rural areas in general. Subsequent chapters offer present-day insights on such topics as the socioeconomic consequences of automated vegetable and tobacco harvesting, center-pivot irrigation, and organic and no-till cultivation. The authors also look at compensation and adjustment programs for displaced labor, the relationship between technology and agribusiness growth, and the effectiveness of university programs that prepare students to perform social impact assessments in agriculture. The edited proceedings of a spirited roundtable discussion on new directions for the study of the social impacts of farm technology and the political economy of agriculture provide the thought-provoking conclusion to this overview of the field.
Download or read book Technical Change And Social Conflict In Agriculture written by Martin E Pineiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the intellectual production of the first phase of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the most relevant papers presented by invitees at a meeting held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981.
Download or read book Bibliography of Economic Reports on the Production and Marketing of Fruits and Vegetables 1981 89 written by Joan Pearrow and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technological Innovation in Agriculture written by Alain De Janvry and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the role of market and nonmarket forces in affecting the rate and bias of technical change in agriculture. It examines the process of generation of innovations and investment in agricultural research and explores, in the context of political economy, the sources of deviation from the equilibrium rate and bias of technical change. It is argued that a theory of the rate and bias of technological innovation must go beyond the analysis of market forces because they explain only a fraction of changes in investment and productivity in agriculture. It is further argued that the roles played by the various actors involved in agricultural research are being redefined as research moves in to the "Post Green Revolution" era. New mechanisms of identification of research priorities, of coordination of research programs, and of participation of social groups affected by research need to be devised to increase efficiency and equity in the research effort.
Download or read book Readings in the Philosophy of Technology written by David M. Kaplan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.
