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• Introduction The Role of Agriculture in Kenya's Political Economy in the Era of Transition and Independence Western Kenya's Region, People, and the Origins of Population Density Chavakali Secondary School: A place of learning and farming Doing Their Part': 4-K Farmers Clubs Friends and Acres: The Friends Africa Mission Stewardship Program "Home is Home": The Lugari Settlement Scheme and Maragoliland.
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After more than fifty years of development, why have interventions and aid failed to yield greater poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did the agricultural development projects that were transpiring in places like Kenya during the "development era" of the 1950s and 1960s not take-off? Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era explores these questions and others that continue to drive the research agendas of international aid agencies and development scholars in the twenty-first century. The book centers on four agricultural development projects unfolding in a densely populated rural area of western Kenya during the country's transition to independence and its first few years under de facto one-party rule. Drawing on an array of primary sources and oral interviews, Saeteurn argues that the project of agrarianism failed to germinate in places like western Kenya because of competing interests, conflicting agendas, and structural problems inherent in the process of development at the international, national, and local level. Cultivating Their Own is a timely reminder of the importance of paying attention not only to local people's aspirations but also to the realities of rural life when creating projects that mobilize agriculture for poverty reduction. MUEY C. SAETEURN is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Merced.
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• Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction
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• 1. The Roots of the Soy Model
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• 2. Revolution in the Pampas
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• 3. The Elephant in the Field
• 92
• 4. Against the Grain
• 112 Conclusion
• 139 Notes
• 151 Bibliography
• 177 Index.
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In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops. Its soybeans-which have been modified to tolerate being sprayed with herbicides-now cover half of the country's arable land and represent a third of its total exports. While soy has brought about modernization and economic growth, it has also created tremendous social and ecological harm: rural displacement, concentration of landownership, food insecurity, deforestation, violence, and the negative health effects of toxic agrochemical exposure. In Seeds of Power Amalia Leguizamon explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates. She reveals how agribusiness, the state, and their allies in the media and sciences deploy narratives of economic redistribution, scientific expertise, and national identity as a way to elicit compliance among the country's most vulnerable rural residents. In this way, Leguizamon demonstrates that GM soy operates as a tool of power to obtain consent, to legitimate injustice, and to quell potential dissent in the face of environmental and social violence.
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In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage; storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the links between the scales of farmer and state.
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• Elusive prosperity: Rights, emigration, and displacement in Honduras
• Agricultural modernization in Honduras
• Agricultural competitveness, sustainable landscapes and markets: Challenges for Honduran agricultural value chains

This compilation first details the ways the Plan for the Alliance for Prosperity in Honduras sought to generate sources of employment, develop human capital, improve citizen security and access to justice, and strengthen institutions. The authors go on to explore the transformation of the Honduran agricultural sector in the context of the modernization process of the past four decades. A framework for discussion on agricultural value chains, competitiveness, sustainable landscape and markets is proposed in closing.
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"What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world, the Midwestern US seems ideally situated for the coming challenges of climate change. But it also sits at the epicenter of a massive economic collapse that many of its citizens are still struggling to overcome. The question of what the Midwest is (and what it will become) is nothing new. As Phil Christman writes in this idiosyncratic new book, ambiguity might be the region's defining characteristic. Taking a cue from Jefferson's grid, the famous rectangular survey of the Old Northwest Territory that turned everything from Ohio to Wisconsin into square-mile lots, Christman breaks his exploration of Midwestern identity, past and present, into 36 brief, interconnected essays. The result is a sometimes sardonic, often uproarious, and consistently thought-provoking look at a misunderstood place and the people who call it home."--Amazon.com

• Amendment 1
• 2. State office procedure for the disposition of adjustment applications, undelivered checks, lost checks and refunds of grant payments under the Agricultural Conservation Program
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• 3. State office procedure for deducting amounts due the United States from payments under the Agricultural Conservation Program
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• Introduction: America's Reflexivity
• Part 1: The Decomposition of America
• The America of the Reporters
• The Decomposition of Links Between Statistics and Politics
• Part 2: Expression of Random America: On the Rural Front
• From the Political Representative to Statistical Representativeness
• Probable Error
• The Administration and University
• Areal America
• Part 3: Expression of Random America: On the Urban Front
• The Paradoxical Decomposition of Unemployment
• How to Transform the Victims of the Depression into Enumerators?
• From Participationism to a Government of the Masses

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool: representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies. Didier shows that their methods were not just simple enumeration; these new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy even as the New Deal shaped the evolution of statistical surveys. Didier explains how statisticians had to become detectives and anthropologists, searching for elements that would help them portray America as a whole. Representative surveys were one of the most effective instruments for their task. He examines pre-Depression survey techniques; the invention of the random sampling method and the development of the Master Sample; and the application of random sampling by employment experts to develop the "Trial Census of Unemployment.".
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