The Politics Of Planting

Download or read book The Politics of Planting written by Shaul Ephraim Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the open landscape of Israel and the West Bank, where pine and cypress forests grow alongside olive groves, tree planting has become symbolic of conflicting claims to the land. Palestinians cultivate olive groves as a vital agricultural resource, while the Israeli government has made restoration of mixed-growth forests a national priority. Although both sides plant for a variety of purposes, both have used tree planting to assert their presence on—and claim to—disputed land. Shaul Ephraim Cohen has conducted an unprecedented study of planting in the region and the control of land it signifies. In The Politics of Planting, he provides historical background and examines both the politics behind Israel's afforestation policy its consequences. Focusing on the open land surrounding Jerusalem and four Palestinian villages outside the city, this study offers a new perspective on the conflict over land use in a region where planting has become a political tool. For the valuable data it presents—collected from field work, previously unpublished documents, and interviews—and the insight it provides into this political struggle, this will be an important book for anyone studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Download or read book The Politics of Precaution written by Robert L. Paarlberg and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetically modified (GM) food crops have inspired increasing controversy over the past decade. By the mid-1990s they were widely grown in the U.S., Canada, and Argentina, but precautionary regulations continue to limit their use elsewhere. The restrictive policies of Europe and Japan toward GM crops have been much discussed. Less attention has been paid to the policies affecting the adoption of GM crops in the developing world, where their potential impact on the availability and quality of food is even greater. In this book Robert Paarlberg looks at the policy choices regarding GM food made by four important developing countries: Kenya, Brazil, India, and China. Of these, so far only China has approved the planting of GM crops. Paarlberg identifies five policy areas in which governments of developing countries can either support or discourage GM crops: intellectual property rights, biosafety, trade, food safety, and public research and investment. He notes that highly cautious biosafety policies have so far been the key reason that Kenya, Brazil, and India have hesitated to plant GM crops. These cautious policies have been strongly reinforced by international market forces and international diplomatic and NGO pressures. China has been less cautious toward GM crops, in part because there is less opportunity in China for international organizations or independent critics of GM crops to challenge official policy.

Download or read book The Politics of Chinese Communism written by Ilpyong J. Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Colonial Exploitation written by Cornelis Fasseur and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the Cultivation System from the years 1840 to 1860 is the focus of this work by the Dutch scholar Cornelis Fasseur. The author presents a general overview of Dutch po y and decision-making, and considers how these policies influenced the evolution of the Cultivation System and how the system itself altered Dutch views of governance in Java.

Download or read book The Politics of Time written by Henry J. Rutz and published by American Ethnological Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unifying idea of THE POLITICS OF TIME is that time is an object of power relations. Chapters are concerned with different forms of objectification, various contests of power that shape time as a concept and as a resource, and the multiplicity social constructions of time. The emphasis is to ask questions about what time is, how it is reckoned, and what standard is used to measure it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: A Politics of Time Introduction: The Idea of a Politics of Time by Henry J Rutz The Power to Time and the Time to Power by Robert Rotenberg Part II: Appropriations of Time The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania by Katherine Verdery Never on Sunday: Time-discipline and Fijian Nationalism by Henry J Rutz and Erol M Balkan Seizing the Moment: Power, Contingency, and Temporality in Street Life by Anne M Lovell Part III: The Institutionalization of a Dominant Time Time, Talk, and Class: New York Puerto Ricans as Temporal and Linguistic Others by Bonnie Urciuoli Temporality and the Domestication of Homelessness by Kostas Gounis Part IV: Time and Legitimation Jewish Ontologies of Time and Political Legitimation in Isreal by Robert Paine Centralizing Agricultural Time: A Case from South Sulawesi by John R Bowen

Download or read book The Politics of Food Supply written by Bill Winders and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.

Download or read book The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: