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Successful Wine Marketing
ISBN: 9780834219625 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects the work of wine marketing experts as expressed in their presentations to the annual three-week Wine Marketing Short Course at the University of California, Davis. The course was initially organized in collaboration with the international wine management curriculum sponsored by the International Organization for Vines and Wines (OIV). We have been involved in this course since its inception a decade ago. This book is intended for students in wine marketing and management, enology, and viticulture who seek to broaden their understanding of the wine sector. It is also...
This book reflects the work of wine marketing experts as expressed in their presentations to the annual three-week Wine Marketing Short Course at the ...
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Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
ISBN: 9780849323263 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past, there have been many changes in food availability, production and selection around the world. These changes, such as genetically modified foods, raise questions about their long-range implications. How will they affect the worldwide economics and management of agriculture? food legislation? the environment? the determination of food safety and quality? nutrition and health? Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry: Catastrophe or Opportunity? describes the major changes and answers the questions concerning them. It presents information that decision-makers in the field can...
During the past, there have been many changes in food availability, production and selection around the world. These changes, such as genetically modi...
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Agricultural Prices and Commodity Market Analysis
ISBN: 9780870137518 / Angielski / Twarda / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features the application of economic theory to agriculture and the food industry, using quantitative tools. The blend of theory and application is unique in detailing how demand and supply can be measured and how econometric simulation models may be constructed and evaluated. The volume focuses on forecasting and generating long-term projections as well as discussing the relatively unexplored area of stochastic modeling, which is critical in handling crop yield variability. Other topics covered in the text include agricultural policy analysis and futures/options markets. The role... This book features the application of economic theory to agriculture and the food industry, using quantitative tools. The blend of theory and appli... |
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Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households in the Global Coffee Economy
ISBN: 9780875806174 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sick explores contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade as she examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. Using a commodity approach, she integrates household, regional, and global processes. "Farmers of the Golden Bean" challenges previous assumptions about the nature of economic change and the sustainability of household producers in the global economy. Sick explores contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade as she examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing hous... |
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Roots of Competitiveness: China's Evolving Agriculture Interests
ISBN: 9780881323764 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a cliche that China is the world's manufactured goods factory, but most observers are just as certain that China's farmers are a serious burden on growth. Yet China in fact has the makings of an internationally competitive agricultural sector, with the market setting most prices, farmers shifting quickly toward what they produce best, and significant research and development focused on biotechnology and other promising areas. China's trade interests are changing as its farmers become more competitive, and this transformation will have major implications for world trade talks and global...
It is a cliche that China is the world's manufactured goods factory, but most observers are just as certain that China's farmers are a serious burden ...
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Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor
ISBN: 9780881323924 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agricultural market liberalization is essential in achieving a successful Doha Round agreement because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries. But the implications for developing countries, especially the poorest, are more complex than the current debate suggests. This volume examines the structure of agricultural support in rich countries and explores the challenges as well as opportunities that developing countries might face if the Doha Round succeeds in reforming OECD agriculture policies.
Agricultural market liberalization is essential in achieving a successful Doha Round agreement because these are the most protected markets remaining ...
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Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach
ISBN: 9780882666426 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering proven techniques and practical advice, this inspiring handbook covers all aspects of successfully running a small organic farm. With expert tips on everything from buying land to creating a niche market for your products, Karl Schwenke shows you how to naturally enrich your soil, acquire necessary equipment, consistently grow abundant crops, and manage farm finances. You'll enjoy learning essential skills like haying and fencing as you turn your organic farming dream into a profitable reality. Offering proven techniques and practical advice, this inspiring handbook covers all aspects of successfully running a small organic farm. With expe... |
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Governing Food : Science, Safety and Trade
ISBN: 9780889118973 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's relations with the United States. The essays in Governing Food, written by distinguished public officials, academics, and industry and civil society commentators, examine the three pillars of food safety - science, regulation, and industry - to highlight the pressures on government. Contributors include Charles Cockbill, chairman of the European Food Law Association of the UK; Neville Craddock, group regulatory affairs manager, Nestle UK; Lorne...
Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's rel...
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Meat Preservation: Preventing Losses and Assuring Safety
ISBN: 9780917678349 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meat Preservation is written as an integrated and all-encompassing text that includes historical aspects and trends, discussion of basic background information, the evaluation and status of techniques and procedures, and treatments of potential future developments. The latter are particularly important because based on consumer desires, there is a definite trend developing to produce and market meat and meat products that have been subjected to a lesser degree of preservation, yet appear to be fresh and more healthful. Today, there is an intense interest to produce the safest meat...
Meat Preservation is written as an integrated and all-encompassing text that includes historical aspects and trends, discussion of basic backgr...
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Grass Productivity
ISBN: 9780933280649 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grass Productivity is a prodigiously documented textbook of scientific information concerning every aspect of management where the cow and grass meet. Andre Voisin's rational grazing method maximizes productivity in both grass and cattle operations.
Grass Productivity is a prodigiously documented textbook of scientific information concerning every aspect of management where the cow and grass meet....
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Agriculture and the State: Market Processes and Bureaucracy
ISBN: 9780945999294 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the effects of farm policies and shows how they are responsible for the high and rising cost of food and the ruin of the small farmer.
This book analyzes the effects of farm policies and shows how they are responsible for the high and rising cost of food and the ruin of the small farm...
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Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective
ISBN: 9781402009815 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective is a modern academic work that seeks to bring out both to the private and the policy sectors the importance of risk management in relation to the envi- ronment in agriculture, as the world moves towards freer markets. Many efforts were pooled together in making this book. Three years ago, an attempt was made by one of the editors to get a project on 'Agri- cultural Risk Management and Sustainabilty' (ARMAS) funded by the European Commission. Probably deeming the proposal as prematurely novel for Europe, the Commission's screening...
Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective is a modern academic work that seeks to bring out both to the private and the policy s...
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The Moral Economy Reconsidered: Russia's Search for Agrarian Capitalism
ISBN: 9781403969507 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a case study, it examines the how the rural population responded to reform policies during the transition away from communism. Wegren draws upon extensive field work, survey data, interviews, and wide-ranging Russian language source material to investigate adaptive behaviours by different groups of the rural population. The differentiated and nuanced analysis sheds considerable light on debates over whether actors are motivated mainly by rational...
Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization. Using Russia as a...
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Food Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9781405101684 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Supply Chain Management Edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. Weightman
The food supply chain is a series of links and inter-dependencies, from farms to food consumers' plates, embracing a wide range of disciplines. Food Supply Chain Management brings together the most important of these disciplines and aims to provide an understanding of the chain, to support those who manage parts of the chain and to enhance the development of research activities in the discipline.
Food Supply Chain Management follows a... Food Supply Chain Management Edited by Michael A. Bourlakis and Paul W. H. Weightman
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Antitrust and Agriculture
ISBN: 9781410223333 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Introduction --- Dale C. Dahl The Federal Trade Commission and Agricultural Antitrust Activities ---Alfred Dougherty, Jr. and Clint Batterton Agricultural Cooperatives and the Antitrust Exemption --- Ralph Morris Antitrust Dimensions and Developments in Food Pricing and Distribution --- Eugene M. Warlich Class Actions in Agricultural Antitrust Suits --- John A. Cochrane Appendix A. The Class Action Rule; Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Appendix B. Recent Agricultural Cases Involving Antitrust Class Actions
CONTENTS Introduction --- Dale C. Dahl The Federal Trade Commission and Agricultural Antitrust Activities ---Alfred Dougherty, Jr. and Clint Batterton...
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China's Food and Agriculture: Issues for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781410224446 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's impact on world agricultural markets in coming decades will depend on many factors. Growing income and transition to modern urban lifestyles will increase demand for all foods, but demand will shift toward meat and high-value products. WTO accession may increase openness of China's agricultural trade and allow more imports. An understanding of geographic variations of consumption, production, trade, and policy is critical to understanding the vast China market. Development of transportation infrastructure and market channels will make it easier for food products to reach consumers....
China's impact on world agricultural markets in coming decades will depend on many factors. Growing income and transition to modern urban lifestyles w...
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Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer
ISBN: 9781557532428 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assuming you don't want your cabinets, RTA furniture or other products made from plywood to smell like dirty diapers, a quick look at A hardwood plywood manual by Ang Schramm is in order. According to Schramm, South American Lapuna Sumauma wood has a high starch content that is susceptible to attack by anaerobic bacteria while sitting on the bottoms of holding ponds at the veneer plant. The byproducts, butyric acid and caproic acid, exude an odor that may not always be noticeable in properly dried wood in dry conditions, but becomes offensive when humidity increases. As can be expected,...
Assuming you don't want your cabinets, RTA furniture or other products made from plywood to smell like dirty diapers, a quick look at A hardwood plywo...
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Civic Agriculture – Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community
ISBN: 9781584654148 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community's social and economic development. Civic agriculture embraces innovative ways to produce, process, and distribute food, and it represents a sustainable alternative to...
While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward...
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The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
ISBN: 9781586482817 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin - is...
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journa...
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
ISBN: 9781591024507 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have spoken publicly about what s really taking place behind the closed doors of America s slaughterhouses.
In this new paperback edition, author Gail A. Eisnitz brings the story up to date since the book s original publication. She describes the ongoing efforts by the Humane... Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five ye...
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