Commodity
prices, growth and inflation
The U.S. economy, formerly the growth engine of the world, has been sputtering recently. That's causing most economists to push back their targets for the strong, self-sustaining recovery that was supposed to have started already...
Business & Peace: Conference Final Report Too many economists in America possess an extraordinary ingenuity to discard the greatest imbalances in the economy as irrelevant. Record-high trade deficits, record-low savings and record-low profits do not matter in their eyes. It is, by definition, an economy that cannot have serious problems.
A real-life REAL ESTATE BUBBLE
"The Florida boom was the first indication
of the mood of the Twenties that God intended the
American middle class to be rich."
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Great Crash
Scientists Fear Irreparable Loss of Peanut Crop Biodiversity for World Food Supply
New Pipeline in South America delays search for wild peanut ancestors critical to producing drought and disease resistant crops
Just how far are bananas from extinction?
The world’s most popular fruit and a basic staple food for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world – the banana – is under severe threat from virulent pests and diseases. An article in the 16 January edition of the New Scientist magazine has warned of the risk of shoppers finding the shelves empty when they go to buy their weekly bunch.
For the first time in the more than 50 years since World War II, the world is in the grips of a synchronized global economic downturn. This has but one precedent in history: the Great Depression of the 1930s.......
It's the end of the world as we have known it
We're not joking. But we're not complaining either. We were never fans of the Information Age, the New Economy or the bubble on Wall Street. They were all mountebanks and shysters and we're glad to be rid of them.
Buenos Aires Cereal Market
Rosario Cereal Market
Liniers (BUE) Cattle Markets
Buenos Aires Future Exchange
Rosario Future Exchange
One Third of World's Population 2.7 Billion People Will Experience Severe Water Scarcity By 2025
One third of the world's population will experience severe water scarcity within the next 25 years according to a new study by a leading global water organization.
And the Next Big Thing Is ... the Third World?
Like technology, emerging markets continue to offer an enticing vision of growth, despite a discouraging recent history.
farm income
This new multimedia briefing from ERS highlights important facts in our latest farm income forecast. Farm sector equity is expected to increase in 2003.
As World Fish Stocks Decline, Researchers Turn to an Untapped Resource—Women
From backyard ponds in Bangladesh to the deep-water fisheries off Africa's Atlantic coast, women's role as "fisher folk" is fast changing one of the most tradition-bound segments of the world's food supply chain.
Honey Business
Is Sweet--and Sour
California beekeepers managed to pump out enough
nectar last year to reestablish the Golden State as the nation's top honey
producer. But at honeybee farms throughout the state, there has been little
comfort in recapturing the crown.
Consumer Spending Rises, Incomes Flat
Free-financing, especially on cars, discounted merchandise and other incentives motivated shoppers to spend.
Wheat
Suggestions
for classifying wheat by quality
Fruits
The
kiwi, a commercial success that still didn't consolidate in the productive
zone
Corn
Answer to the
fertilization sulfurated in exploratory fringes
Bovine
Managing
the upbringing of calves after the weaning
Other
crops
When is time
to slow for the silo
Pork
Aujeszky
illness
Beekeeping
Pollen
content on Argentinean honeys
Horticulture
The
tomato cultivation and comsumption of covered water first floor
Poultry
Handling
programs for the breeding of reproductive ducks
Technical
Inform
on alarm systems for plagues
FAO Courses
Thoughts and ideas
"If there any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought-not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1928
Education as an Input in Agricultural Production: Argentina
This paper deals with human capital and firm-level performance in agriculture. In this sector firms are comparatively small. Management, capital provision and labor supply are concentrated on one individual and his immediate family.
BOLIVIA:Country strategy paper 2002
Bolivia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (2001) represents an important change in public policy for poverty reduction, centred on five key themes: enhancing opportunities, human development, social protection, social integration and institutional development.
Rural finance and natural resources
These guidelines aim to provide RNRKS programme managers and project managers with sufficient information on rural finance to judge the extent to which project design may have to take it into account.
BRAZIL: Country strategy paper
Brazil is one of the world’s top ten economies, with a population of 160 million and GDP of over $700 billion. It is an upper middle-income country, but has a highly inequitable income distribution and large numbers of poor people.
Better
Agriculture Advances Fight against Global Warming
Farmers in developing countries are helping nature store away vast amounts of atmospheric carbon by growing high-yielding, land-efficient food crops that save room for forests, according to a report recently released by the 16 Future Harvest research centers
Better livelihoods for poor people: The role of Agriculture
In the year 2000 some 149 countries signed up to the Millennium Development Goals the foremost of which is the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger.
Improving
livelihoods for the poor: the role of literacy
Speech by Clare Short, Ministerial Roundtable on Trade and
Least Developed Countries, London. A speech by Clare Short, Secretary
of State for International Development
UK Bushmeat Campaign Conference at The Zoological
Society of London 28 May 2002
This Background Briefing examines the way in which
literacy features in different sectoral programmes
supported by DFID.
Free Internet: Get What You Pay For?
Many free
services have fallen by the wayside because the companies running them
could not adapt their business models quickly enough to the changing economic
environment.
If it is true that you get what you pay for, is free Internet access really
worth nothing?
more internet news >>>>>>>
The environment ministers of the nations of the Caribbean and Latin America gathered in Rio de Janeiro recently to discuss an agenda for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. A major theme of next year's World Summit in Johannesburg—also known as Rio + 10—will be the critical issue of poverty in conjunction with conservation.
Harness the Gene Revolution to Help Feed the World
With the help of modern science, the increase in food production in recent decades has outpaced the rate of growth in population in most parts of the world. Such progress has been possible through the synergy between technology and public policy.
Cattle raising,
agriculture and mining
Opportunity in Cuyo(San Juan): 93.455 hectares optimum for integrated
production.
"Moon Valley" Field (Ischigualasto)
Mankind Patrimony
Current: