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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Agricultural Change"”.
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Agricultural change and rural class formation in Iringa district, Tanzania
… considerable attention to the development of agricultural production, particularly maize and tobacco, in Iringa District. Based upon fieldwork conducted during the author's stay in Tanzania in 1976/77, the thesis draws on a variety of unpublished documentary sources and the testimony of …
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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa
… subject to accelerated regulatory and economic change in the time since the country’s democratization. This dissertation focusses on some of the interactions of these changes with the prospects of low-income farmworkers and farm dwellers through exploring two interlinked questions. The first of …
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Land Degradation in Southwestern Burkina Faso: The Environmental Effects of Demographic and Agricultural Change
The second part of the dissertation further explores the issue of for whom degradation is a problem, examining how farmers experience degradation differently; their experiences are influenced by questions of identity (age, gender, ethnicity, class and political power) and access to resources. I …
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Agricultural change in the East Riding of Yorkshire: 1850-1880: an economic and social history
… there was significant technical progress in the agricultural industry of the East Riding in the three decades after 1850. This is attested by improved trunk and field drainage in many parts of Holderness, the Vale of York and the Hull Valley; increases in the average size of farms in some of the …
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Agricultural change in the urban-rural fringe: a test of the perimetropolitan bow wave model
… mile radius of New York City. He concluded that agricultural activities differ in their rates of movement through four identified zones around the urban center. This thesis presents case studies of the movement of agricultural activities around two cities of different size--Washington, D.C. and …
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The Role of The Nobility in Agricultural Change in Russia During The Reign of Catherine Ii
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A study of agricultural change in the Ntabazinduna Reserve with particular reference to the colonial period 1923-1939
This thesis delves into the agricultural past of the Ntabazinduna Reserve which is part of the Bubi District in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The main purpose of this case study is to investigate whether or not there was a significant agricultural change in this Reserve, particularly in the …
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Agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1948-1978 : a case study of maize production in Kasama District
This dissertation studies agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia. It analyzes the agricultural policies and practices of both the Northern Rhodesian Colonial and Zambian Governments between 1948 and 1978. The focus is maize production in Kasama District. There has been misplaced …
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Agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1948-1978 : a case study of maize production in Kasama District
This dissertation studies agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia. It analyzes the agricultural policies and practices of both the Northern Rhodesian Colonial and Zambian Governments between 1948 and 1978. The focus is maize production in Kasama District. There has been misplaced …
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Smallholder agriculture, livelihood systems & food security: a four-year longitudinal study of central Malawi
… of the livelihoods system and agriculture change processes employed by rural households in central Malawi from 2010 to 2013. Its main aim is to explore livelihood changes in smallholder agriculture and food security. This will provide substantial insight into how different components of the …
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Strategies for Commercialization: Missouri Agriculture, 1860-1880
… from the 1860, 1870 and 1880 population and agricultural censuses of Missouri, and add data from local property tax records in order to document and model farmers' production strategies for commercialization. The story of agricultural change in Missouri during the post-Civil War period is not …
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Dynamics of Agricultural Development in Prehistoric Samoa: The Case of Ofu Island
Agricultural development is intimately tied to the environment and cultural practices, specifically socio-political change. Nowhere are these relationships more clear than on Polynesian islands. Many sequences of agricultural change have now been documented in the region, and their relationships …
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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
… important roles in shaping the progress of agricultural change. Four historical fields inform this project: the history of technology, agricultural history, Soviet history and environmental history. Each of the five chapters addresses a different time, place and theme in the history of the …
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Social change and religious experience : aspects of rural society in south Lincolnshire with specific reference to Primitive Methodism, 1815-1875
… the nineteenth century there were considerable changes in the social life and economy of south Lincolnshire. Rapid population growth to the middle of the century and agricultural change led to the development of new ways of life among the people of the area. Their attitudes were shaped by the …
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Synanthropic survival: low-impact agriculture and White-shouldered Ibis conservation ecology
… farming following the loss of natural processes. Agricultural change, driven by external agribusiness and intrinsic livelihood modernisation, endangers these species, including the ibis. Ibis foraging ecology is closely associated with local livelihood practices, with favoured dry forest habitats …
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Land use intensity and trees on farms in Malawi
… in Malawi have put a huge strain on the existing agricultural land and the surrounding woodland. Smallholder agriculture is the dominant economic activity of Malawi’s rural population and many farmers have been forced to cultivate marginal lands with less fertile soils, making conditions much more …
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Transformation for Smallholder Farmers: Pathways for Agricultural Development in Rwanda
… for Smallholder Farmers: Pathways for Agricultural Development in Rwanda Jolly Dusabe This thesis asks: “What are the drivers of smallholder agricultural growth in Rwanda?” Since 2000, Rwanda has recorded unprecedented year on year growth in agricultural production, averaging more than …
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Resources, Environment, and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913
This dissertation examines the history of agricultural change in Uruguay over the long nineteenth century, as a case study in the agrarian roots of Latin American long-term development. Cowhides were first exported on a large scale in 1779, under Spanish rule, starting a series of commodity booms …
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Gendered dimensions of Conservation Agriculture in Northwestern Cambodia
This research investigates gender-based constraints and opportunities to the dissemination of conservation agriculture based on a case study with smallholder farmers in the village of Pichangva, Rattanakmondol, Battambang Province, Royal Kingdom of Cambodia. Using qualitative and quantitative …
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