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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Despite increasing modernization in agriculture globally, the majority of people in developing countries are still dependant on low input, limited technology smallholder farming for their food and livelihood. The 2007-2008 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)In spite of the numerous interventions put in place by the Government of Ghana, international development agencies and other relevant bodies such as Fairtrade to eradicate child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector, it ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Since the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in 2000, Zimbabwe has changed from being mostly maize self-sufficient to being dependent on maize imports to provide food for the country. The FTLRP is seen as largely to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The global market is incredibly interconnected and interdependent. However, massive inequalities in wealth and poverty exist throughout, with the richest 1% gaining 82% of the wealth produced last year, while the poorest ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)The labour-centred development (LCD) approach emphasizes that development can only be brought about through the collective struggle of the labouring classes. Supporters of LCD undergird their argument by referring to the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) has contributed significantly to maize production and productivity and national food self-sufficiency, and has been coined as “one of the most successful smart subsidies of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Ghanaian cocoa farmers confront many social and economic challenges and are unable to pursue needed farm improvements because of insufficient and dwindling income. The income of farmers is too low for them to generate ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This paper investigates the strengths and challenges of state-supported agricultural programmes in the eastern Caribbean island state of St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG). The state-supported agri-processing corporation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Arab countries attempts at regional integration started in the 1950s, but the goal of integration has produced very little substantive political or economic results. This lack of progress has blocked Arab countries from ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)E-commerce is repeatedly recommended as a means of poverty reduction for rural artisans. However, presenting e-commerce as easily attainable ignores the many barriers and trivializes the value that less complex ICTs offer. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Although the world produces more food than ever before, close to one billion people remain hungry worldwide. This problem is especially critical in the Global South, where the majority of the population are food producers. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Regional Integration as a means of development is a topic that is being explored today. Many countries, of which the Caribbean is no exception, have attempted to utilise this route to serve their economic developmental ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Coffee, as a globally traded primary commodity, has historically been and continues to be one of the most valuable economic resources that is exported from the Global South. Vietnam has become the second largest and one ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Developing countries are commonly known for economic dependence on raw commodities sold at low and fluctuating prices. For this reason, the concept of selling value-added commodities with higher profit margins seems ...
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