Essays about: "agricultural politics"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words agricultural politics.

1. 21. Man must conquer earth: three stages of CCP policies resulting in environmental degradation in China and characteristics of contemporary environmental politics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kinesiska

   Author : Fifa Finnsdottir; [2009]
   Keywords : development; Mao Zedong; environment; China; Great Leap Forward; miljöfrågor; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : This Bachelor’s thesis follows aspects of environmental degradation stemming from the policies of the Chinese Communist Party over the latter half of the 20th century. These start with The Great Leap Forward in ’58 in which people were exhorted to convert as much land to agriculture as possible, construct dams and implement agricultural techniques that in the long-term proved unsustainable and destructive. READ MORE

3. 22. A Green Revolution in southern Niassa, Mozambique? : A field study from a small farmer perspective about possibilities and obstacles for a Green Revolution.

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Sofia Rodman; Karin Gatu; [2008]
   Keywords : Southern Niassa; Green Revolution; Small farmers; Agriculture.;

   Abstract : The aim of this field study was to analyze, by taking into consideration the small farmers' perspective, the possibilities and obstacles for an implementation of a Green Revolution in southern Niassa, Northern Mozambique. We also highlighted the following question: In what sense are the findings in Asia, presented by Djurfeldt, relevant for the situation in southern Niassa? The analytical framework used is based on the scheme developed by Nitsch and Åkesson. READ MORE

4. 23. Developing countries and emergency safeguard measures in world trade law

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Carl-Owe Olsson; [2006]
   Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Before going into details and regulations behind the safeguard measures it's important to understand the basic starting point. The members of WTO all agree to have tariffs at a certain level and the member countries are prohibited to raise the tariffs above this level. This makes the system predictable&semic every one knows the tariff levels. READ MORE

5. 24. Institutionalism and CAP reform

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Helene Odgaard Nielsen; [2006]
   Keywords : Normative Institutionalism; Rational Choice Institutionalism; ; Historical Institutionalism; ; Common Agricultural Policy CAP ; ; the Commission; ; the commissioners; ; the MacSharry reform; ; the 2003 reform.; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The aim of this report is to establishing whether or not the institutional structures and norms there are embedded in the Commission constrain the commissioners and influences the commissioners in a certain direction when is come to a CAP reform. Here I will use normative- and rational choice institutionalisms to identify to what extent the commissioners are influenced by institutional structures and then discus what the consequences are of this institutional influences related to the commissioners ability to reform the CAP. READ MORE

6. 25. EU ger eko bland korna : från uppbundet till lösdrift

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Ingrid Gustafsson; [2005]
   Keywords : mjölkkor; ekologisk mjölkproduktion; kobås; lösdrift;

   Abstract : For hundreds of years there has been a tradition with tethered dairy cows in Sweden. The last decades the old fashioned way to hold cows have been questioned and the number of dairy cows in loose housing has been increasing. Last year (2004) 19 percent in total of all farms with milk production in Sweden had their cows in loose housing. READ MORE