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  • A vitalist approach to sugar-cane breeding in Barbados : in the context of the European Union Sugar Reform
  • Barbados ; Cultivated plants ; Sugar cane
  • The paper demonstrates the value that vitalist materialism, as a philosophical approach, has for understanding the situated practices and politics of cane variety selection in Barbados. Approaching agronomic practices from a vitalist perspective has
  • Sugar cane cultivation and rural misery : Northeast Brazil in Festschrift to honor Raymond E. Crist.
  • Sugar cane is now even more of a monoculture in northeastern Brazil than it was in the early colonial period of Portuguese rule. Since the 1970s, the Brazilian government has subsidized sugar cane cultivation in order to promote the use of alcohol
  • Factors influencing the viability and sustainability of smallholder sugar cane production in Umbumbulu
  • Agriculture ; Cost-benefit analysis ; Cultivated plants ; Farm ; Farm size ; Farming system ; KwaZulu-Natal ; Land use ; South Africa ; Sugar cane ; Sustainable development
  • for the development of viable and sustainable full-time sugar cane growing in the region. - (AJC)
  • Kuba - Zucherinsel der Karibik. Cuba - Sugar Island of the Caribbean Sea
  • The author deals with Cuba's position in the international sugar market, with the natural conditions for cultivating of sugar cane in Cuba and the position of sugar industry in the cuban economy. There is given a review from the spanish colonial
  • dependence to the neocolonial dependence of the USA till to role of sugar for the complex regional development under socialist conditions nowadays. - (IH)
  • Antiguan sugar mills: an adaptive use of relic geography
  • Antigua and Barbuda ; Cultural landscape ; Island ; Sugar cane ; Tourism
  • Remains of 200 wind-powered mills to grind sugar cane are found on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Many of these stone structures near the coast have now been renovated for use in tourism. - (DWG)
  • Situated knowledge and the EU sugar reform : a Caribbean life history
  • Barbados ; Farm ; Knowledge ; Post-colonialism ; Production cost ; Sugar ; Sugar cane
  • Resonating with efforts to attend to in the field neoliberalism and the embodiment of agrofood relations, the paper explores the historical embeddedness of the European sugar regime in the life of one particular Caribbean small farmer.
  • The origins and early development of the small cane farming system in Queensland, 1870-1915
  • Australia ; Colonization ; Farm ; Historical geography ; Immigration ; Manpower ; Nineteenth Century ; Plantation ; Queensland ; Sugar cane
  • favoured the creation of a class of European farmers. Initially both Europeans and non-Europeans became small cane farmers. The Non-European farmers were forced to cease growing sugar cane after 1913 as the Queensland government sought to achieve a whites
  • The A. argues that the change in the industry's production unit was brought about by a combination of the sugar price collapse of the mid-1880s that highlighted the economic inefficiency of plantation-produced sugar, and government policy which
  • only sugar industry.
  • The economic and environmental sustainability of the sugar industry in the Northern Lowveld of Swaziland
  • Development strategy ; Industry ; Irrigation ; Sugar cane ; Swaziland
  • The Swaziland sugar industry has expanded to become largest employer and foreign exchange earner in the country. Future expansion is dependent upon the expansion of irrigation projects, which necessitate cooperation with South Africa. - (AJC)
  • Relationship between sugar cane yield and drought in Ishigaki Island, SW Japan
  • Agricultural climatology;Agroclimatology ; Brought ; Crop yield ; Irrigated farming ; Irrigation ; Japan ; Natural hazards ; Precipitation ; Sugar cane
  • Land resources assessment for sugar-cane cultivation in Papua New Guinea
  • This contribution shows the characteristics of this semi-humid land in worths, pictures and in numbers. Particular importance has the cultivation of sugar-cane and the production of sugar and the cultivation of citrus fruits. These are the important
  • The Caribbean sugar bowl : a case study of « human-environment » interaction
  • Agricultural technique ; Dominican Republic ; Man-environment relations ; Sugar cane ; Teaching of geography
  • Botany in the service of Empire: the Barbados cane-breeding program and the revival of the Caribbean sugar industry, 1880s-1930s
  • Agricultural colonization ; Agricultural technique ; Barbados ; Cultivated plants ; Diffusion of innovations ; Economic impact ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; Nineteenth Century ; Plantation ; Sugar cane
  • Developments in sugar cane production in the Sudan
  • A family business : women, children and smallholder sugar cane farming in Fiji
  • During the last twenty years to the south of Lake Okeechobee a new American agricultural frontier has been developed: the Everglades. 120,000 hectares of rich, organic land have been planted with sugar cane by a handful of large companies (Gulf
  • plantation rights which make Florida today the largest American cane sugar producing state.
  • + Western, USSC...) which have monopolised this space valorized by large improvement projects financed by public funds. At the time of the Cuban crisis in 1960 their control of the sugar lobby allowed them to recuperate to their advantage considerable
  • The sugar industry’s impact on the landscape of the Australian wet tropical coast
  • Agricultural practice ; Agriculture ; Australia ; Ecological modernization ; Environment ; Government intervention ; Impact ; Landscape ; Queensland ; Sugar cane ; Sugar industry
  • Agriculture ; Irrigation ; Project ; Rural community ; Rural development ; Sugar cane ; Swaziland
  • traditional land tenure, high subsidies and international sugar trading agreements impact upon the project. - (AJC)
  • Agroclimatology ; Climatic variability ; Climatic variation ; Crop yield ; Drought ; Human impact ; KwaZulu-Natal ; Maize ; South Africa ; Sugar cane ; Water ; Water resources
  • temperatures over the past four decades. The sensitivity of maize and sugar cane yields to sustained climatic departures is studied in relation to the economy and food production. - (AJC)