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Author: Professor James Smith
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1780320221
Size: 64.58 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : un
Pages : 160
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Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk

by Professor James Smith, Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk books, Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free. Thus, Smith argues, biofuels may constitute the biggest change in North-South relationships since colonialism.

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Author: James Smith (Africanist)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781350218666
Size: 17.38 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Biomass energy
Languages : un
Pages : 151
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Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk

by James Smith (Africanist), Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Biofuels And The Globalization Of Risk books, Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free. Thus, Smith argues, biofuels may constitute the biggest change in North--South relationships since colonialism.

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Author: Kristina Dietz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317747437
Size: 34.50 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Political Ecology Of Agrofuels

by Kristina Dietz, The Political Ecology Of Agrofuels Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Political Ecology Of Agrofuels books, This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world regions (North America, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia) and levels (local, national, transnational). The Political Ecology of Agrofuels advances a conceptualisation of agrofuels that helps to fill existing research gaps. It covers global food regimes and agrarian politics as well as political arenas such as energy, climate, transport and trade. It reflects on the biophysical materiality of agrofuels, new forms of nature appropriation, struggles, discursive framings, the building of hegemony, shifting geopolitical constellations, socio-spatial configurations of power, the construction of territory, the agency of social movements and the different ways in which agrofuels are politicized at different scales. This book asks how patterns of mobility, emissions regulation, food and energy production and consumption, and social relations (e.g. labour, class and gender relations) are shaped and re-shaped by the materiality and representations of agrofuels in both the Global South and North. The book provides tools for thinking about the diversity of the conflicts, struggles and spatial, socio-ecological and politico-economic reconfigurations and perpetuations engendered by current production and consumption patterns in the agrofuel sector.

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Author: Joachim Von Braun
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Size: 15.65 MB
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Globalization Of Food And Agriculture And The Poor

by Joachim Von Braun, Globalization Of Food And Agriculture And The Poor Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Globalization Of Food And Agriculture And The Poor books, The world agri-food system is getting increasingly 'globalized'. As the majority moves into cities, and those who remain in rural areas adopt urbanized lifestyles the consumption of food is changing toward varied yet similar consumption around the world. This book reflects on how these changesare affecting the poor by looking at specific factors that are driving change.The chapters consider different angles to the following questions: How do these changes affect the roles and powers of various actors along the food chain? How relevant are these trends to the economic developments within the global agri-food system, and in particular to the poor segments ofsociety? How is the globalization of foods affecting human health? How can international and national policy address possible adverse direct and indirect effects of globalization of the world's agri-food system while strengthening positive ones? The book attempts to combine both lines of inquiry,focusing more specifically on the globalization of agri-food systems, the actual and potential impacts of these trends on the poor, and the implications for food and nutrition security in developing countries.

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Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 35.69 MB
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
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The State Of Food And Agriculture

by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The State Of Food And Agriculture Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The State Of Food And Agriculture books,

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Author: Shara L. Aranoff
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN:
Size: 69.66 MB
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Industrial Biotechnology

by Shara L. Aranoff, Industrial Biotechnology Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Industrial Biotechnology books, This book examines the competitive conditions affecting certain industries that are developing and adopting new industrial biotechnology (IB) processes and products. IB was defined for purposes of this study as the manufacture of liquid fuel and chemical products using enzymes, micro-organisms, or renewable resources. The book focuses on U.S. liquid biofuel producers and firms in the U.S. chemical industry. The application of IB can improve the efficiency of the industries and lead to the development of new products. The book provides an understanding of the current impact of IB on the U.S. economy.

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Author: Matthew Paul Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 62.97 MB
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Evaluating The Potential For Large Scale Biodiesel Deployments In A Global Context

by Matthew Paul Johnston, Evaluating The Potential For Large Scale Biodiesel Deployments In A Global Context Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Evaluating The Potential For Large Scale Biodiesel Deployments In A Global Context books,

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Size: 59.47 MB
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
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Petroleum Review

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Author: Asian Productivity Organization
Publisher:
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Size: 50.52 MB
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Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages :
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Annual Report

by Asian Productivity Organization, Annual Report Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Annual Report books,

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Author: Martina Schöb
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 365641288X
Size: 51.62 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Global Biofuel Production And Its Impact On The Land Tenure Of The Rural Poor

by Martina Schöb, The Global Biofuel Production And Its Impact On The Land Tenure Of The Rural Poor Book available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Global Biofuel Production And Its Impact On The Land Tenure Of The Rural Poor books, Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1, University of Luzern (ethnologisches Seminar), course: Land Grabbing, language: English, abstract: The global biofuel production has been rapidly increasing since 2007-08 and with it the new demand for land, which has a strong focus on Africa as it has weak land rights protection. Most foreign investors, who intend to buy land for the biofuel production take advantage of the lack of proper property rights in several African countries. Therefore, many of the rural poor, who depend on land for their living, suffer from expulsion or dispossession. In summary, it can be said that the formalization of land titles only serves the poor, when secondary rights as for example for women, herders or migrants, are respected by the state or the foreign investors when allocating, buying or leasing land. In addition, during the processes of allocating, buying or leasing land, the state as well as the foreign investor should give whole local communities (not only local elites) the possibility to negotiate over the future use of the land they tilled for years. From the four land tenure reforms outlined, where land based wealth and power transfers occurs, the two best possible solutions, which serve the poor, would be the redistribution and the distribution of land. In my opinion, the preferable one of this two solutions is distribution as this solution is less conflict-prone. In the present paper two case studies are used to show how (as in the case of Ghana) local elites or foreign investors make decisions without consulting local communities or, that simply changing laws or introduce policies is not enough to protect the land rights of the affected local communities (as in the case of Mozambique). Even if local communities are compensated for loss of their land rights, many agreements between communities and investors emphasize one-off compensations rather than long-term benefit sharing, such as job creation or leasing incomes and the agreements usually involve very small payments compared to for example the value of the forest concessions acquired by investors.

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