نتایج جستجو برای: agrarian policies

تعداد نتایج: 124859  

2016
Subrata Chakrabarty Erin Bass

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We utilize institutional theory to examine corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Many MFIs operate at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP), which is usually agrarian, impoverished, and plagued with institutional voids. We investigate the link between the composition of the boards of MFIs and the ability of the MFIs to f...

2010
Prabal Dutta Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Climate change has had a dramatic impact on many agrarian developing nations. For example, in 2009, the delay of the monsoon rains by a month in India affected several macroeconomic factors including food price increases, a stock market slump, agricultural product export restrictions, and an array of agricultural subsidies. Over the past decade, there has been a growing trend in the number of f...

2006
JOHN MARTIN

INCE Kerridge's incisive intervention into the field of agrarian history in his article of 1955 regarding the enclosure movement in the Tudor and early-Stuart period, anyone who ventures there must preface their remarks by acknowledgement of the force of Kerridge's argument. 1 As a result, little confidence may be retained in the basis of analysis of enclosure in that period the statistics whic...

Journal: :Gut 2016
Gary D Wu Charlene Compher Eric Z Chen Sarah A Smith Rachana D Shah Kyle Bittinger Christel Chehoud Lindsey G Albenberg Lisa Nessel Erin Gilroy Julie Star Aalim M Weljie Harry J Flint David C Metz Michael J Bennett Hongzhe Li Frederic D Bushman James D Lewis

OBJECTIVE The consumption of an agrarian diet is associated with a reduced risk for many diseases associated with a 'Westernised' lifestyle. Studies suggest that diet affects the gut microbiota, which subsequently influences the metabolome, thereby connecting diet, microbiota and health. However, the degree to which diet influences the composition of the gut microbiota is controversial. Murine ...

Journal: :ITOR 2009
Leonardo Melgarejo João Neiva De Figueiredo Carlos Ernani Fries

The Brazilian Agrarian Reform Program has subsidized the settlement of over 425,000 destitute families on previously unproductive land in what has become a very effective vehicle for social inclusion and productivity growth for those settlers who reach the final stage of the process and receive definitive title to the land. Unfortunately, there is a large difference in efficiency and productivi...

2003
Ian MacPherson

The cooperative movement on the Canadian prairies is a major element in the region's social and economic history. The main impetus behind the creation of the movement was the successive agrarian revolts that occurred between 1895 and 1945. Those revolts significantly disrupted the national Canadian political process, both directly by producing the Progressive movement, and indirectly by contrib...

2014
Edward R. Carr Mary C. Thompson

The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs co...

Journal: :Economic development and cultural change 1999
A Cungu J F Swinnen

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

2014
Liz Carlisle

This paper develops the concept of ‘critical agrarianism’ to describe and advance the pursuit of land-based work as a means of realizing social justice and environmental sustainability. Encouraging new agrarianism to more carefully scrutinize its agenda, critical agrarianism celebrates the promise of a close working relationship with the natural world while insisting that a return to the land—p...

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