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Portuguese Agriculture in Transition / Scott R. Pearson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501746154
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/09469 19
LOC classification:
  • HD2027 .P67 1987
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Maps -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. Constraints, Methods, and Policies -- 1. Constraints on the Development of Portuguese Agriculture -- 2. Methods of Analysis -- 3. Commodity Policies -- 4. Agricultural Factor Markets -- PART TWO. Comparative Advantage in Portuguese Agriculture -- 5. Extensive Farming in the Alentejo -- 6. Intensive Agriculture in the Vale do Tejo -- 7. Dairying in the Azores -- 8. Intensive Agriculture in the Northwest -- PART THREE. Agricultural Change in the Northwest -- 9. Technical Change in a Northwest Parish -- 10. Patterns of Technical Change in the Northwest -- 11. Future Technical and Structural Adjustments in Northwestern Agriculture -- PART FOUR. Policies for Change -- 12. Future Commodity Policies -- 13. Future Policies Influencing Agricultural Factor Markets -- 14. Portuguese Agricultural Strategies -- Index
Summary: Portuguese Agriculture in Transition represents the synthesis of a six-year study undertaken by nine social scientists from the University of Arizona, Stanford University, Göttingen University, and the University of Lisbon, aimed at improving the efficiency and productivity of Portuguese agriculture. The fourteen essays seek to explain the constraints that affect the making of agricultural policy in Portugal, the sources of comparative advantage within the agricultural sector, and the technical innovations that have recently begun to change farming in the northwest of the country.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Maps -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. Constraints, Methods, and Policies -- 1. Constraints on the Development of Portuguese Agriculture -- 2. Methods of Analysis -- 3. Commodity Policies -- 4. Agricultural Factor Markets -- PART TWO. Comparative Advantage in Portuguese Agriculture -- 5. Extensive Farming in the Alentejo -- 6. Intensive Agriculture in the Vale do Tejo -- 7. Dairying in the Azores -- 8. Intensive Agriculture in the Northwest -- PART THREE. Agricultural Change in the Northwest -- 9. Technical Change in a Northwest Parish -- 10. Patterns of Technical Change in the Northwest -- 11. Future Technical and Structural Adjustments in Northwestern Agriculture -- PART FOUR. Policies for Change -- 12. Future Commodity Policies -- 13. Future Policies Influencing Agricultural Factor Markets -- 14. Portuguese Agricultural Strategies -- Index

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Portuguese Agriculture in Transition represents the synthesis of a six-year study undertaken by nine social scientists from the University of Arizona, Stanford University, Göttingen University, and the University of Lisbon, aimed at improving the efficiency and productivity of Portuguese agriculture. The fourteen essays seek to explain the constraints that affect the making of agricultural policy in Portugal, the sources of comparative advantage within the agricultural sector, and the technical innovations that have recently begun to change farming in the northwest of the country.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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