With respect to alternative accession arrangements, as we move from full CAP to two-tier CAP to no CAP, we are simultaneously decreasing price supports and tariffs while we increase moneys targeted to public goods. This movement corresponds to increase in output decreases in commodity prices, and a dramatic increase in agricultural social welfare. Thus, in…

Controls in this sense straddle the nature-culture divide, seeking to offer a more balanced analytical hinge between two literatures – STS and postcolonial studies – that do not always endeavor to take their dialogue into greater theoretical depths. Finally, all this can, and should, be applied reflexively. As I was writing these concluding pages, one…

As the first project coordinator recounted, since the project’s preparatory missions the focus was on the possibilities for technical cooperation with the research institutes, rather than finding solutions to the cotton sector at large. However, even if the local research institutes were not formally submitted to the cotton companies, and neither were the latter the…

In other words, the sheer existence and full-fledged operation of a public research institute was portrayed not as something to be taken for granted, but as the outcome of an active, continuous work of persuasion and building the right alliances with political groups and constituencies, both domestically and abroad. Those in African institutes did perform…

As the video comes to a close and one hears increasingly loud background music playing the Brazilian national anthem in samba rhythm, the narrator concludes during a shot of Embrapa employees wearing white coats with hands on their hearts: “And it is for this country, a star and master player in tropical agriculture, that we…

The five soil heat flux measurements collected over the vineyard interrow were corrected to represent a surface approximation by accounting for the heat storage in the overlying soil layer. Once G observations were corrected to the surface level, the individual half-hourly measurements of the soil heat flux were averaged to produce a representative G flux for each vineyard .ETa…

In the Brazilian public sphere, there hasn’t been much debate on its growing status as a provider of cooperation – even if, as one of my interlocutors in diplomacy claimed, there is always a press that will “pick on whatever the government does”. Indeed, in the national media, Congressional debates and in informal conversations with…

The survey data set provides data over a five-year period from 1987 to 1991, and State Controller financial data is available over this same time period. A pooled-time series analysis would likely provide a richer view of how districts manage their finances over a longer period, particularly given the apparent large fluctuations in net income and…

Under agroecological management coffee and cacao can be designed to mimick the surrounding natural landscape to promote wildlife friendly practices that enhance synergetic interactions between organisms and provide sustainable food products that increase food sovereignty for local communities . In the case of shade-grown coffee this management is reflected in habitat provision for wildlife, increased…

Because of these findings and our previously reported positive associations between AChE activity and neurobehavioral performance in boys and transient alterations in neurobehavioral performance in relation to a peak pesticide spray season , we hypothesized that children living near greenhouse floricultural production sites, assessed during the same time period with respect to harvest season, had worse…