In recent decades, Japan's growth rate gradually declined and now lags behind those of other advanced economies and other Asian nations. Japanese government's plan to revitalize the nation's economy stresses population decline and population aging as factors that undermine natio…
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Economic indicators (price, income, taste, and preference) and non-economic (information, time and equipment, food quality and safety) indicators are key elements of the food environment that need further investigation in developing countries. The main objective of this thesis i…
Political economy theory has a long, well-documented history of both theoretical and practical overlap. With the growing polarization of American voters, as well as those abroad, there is mounting concern about how best to apply these theories without arguments devolving into id…
The establishment of the South Dakota Farmers’ Holiday Association challenges many assumptions about the state. The commodity strike and foreclosure protests of the Farm Holiday movement captivated much of the state as the condition of agriculture worsened. Disgruntled agrarians…
The practice of mindfulness has a long history in research, particularly psychological studies. In this paper I examine the effects of a short mindfulness intervention on healthy food purchases. Specifically, I developed an online survey and recruited 634 participants via Prolif…
This dissertation analyzes how technological and institutional changes influence economic development. Chapter 1 quantifies the long-term effect of refrigeration on agricultural production. Mechanical refrigeration greatly reduced transportation cost for perishable products but …
This dissertation seeks to explain the highly uneven pattern of economic development in Brazil during the 20th century. Stark development differences between the northern and southern regions of the country have long been a problem of concern to scholars and policymakers and hav…
Coloradans have changed their fundamental views on illegal substances since the decriminalization of cannabis in Colorado. Since the legalization of medical cannabis in 2014, state-sold dispensary cannabis products have straddled the line between legal and illegal network system…
Seg´un datos de la CASEN 2017, la pobreza rural es el doble de la urbana. La pobreza multidimensional urbana es de 18.3 %, mientras que la rural es de 37.4 %. Tal Brecha ha sido patente a lo largo de la historia, lo cual es evidencia de que existen diferencias en las condiciones…
The main argument advanced in my research is threefold: (1) to address the impact of gender and gendered participation in family farm business to expose women’s invisibilities and exclusions from full participation in rural family business, (2) to further knowledge of the positi…
In 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and Mexican government collaborated in the creation of the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) to boost the production of hybrid corn and wheat in Mexico. The Mexican government supported the creation of the MAP because it desired higher a…
Legalization of cannabis has accelerated over the past decade, with more than a dozen U.S. states legalizing adult-use or “recreational” cannabis, dozens more permitting medical use, and varieties low in THC (“hemp”) legal nation-wide. However, legalization does not mean the end…
A business history of select activities of the Mahogany Association, a business interest association (BIA) in the United States active from 1918 to 1964. Several competing companies in the mahogany trade came together to form the Mahogany Association, which acted as a self-regul…
O presente trabalho pretende ser uma leitura sobre a .rticipação feminina na vida económica, social e familiar das roças de S. Tomé e Príncipe, desde 1950 a 1999, um intervalo temporal que inclui dois importantes momentos da história do país. O primeiro, sob domínio colonial e o…
Aquifers are an important water source that continue to sustain populations internationally. These populations are supported by a wide range of water uses for livestock grazing, household use, and commercial demands. In regions that are heavily aquifer-dependent, the aim to both…
A massive transition of land ownership is currently underway in the U.S. as an increasing proportion of farmers near retirement age with no successor in place. The question of who will replace them has come to the fore as policy makers and food justice activists alike contemplat…
Intercropping is the practice of growing multiple crops together in the same field. This is not commonly implemented in Midwest agriculture - instead, current monoculture practices have garnered attention because of the negative environmental impacts of monoculture farming. For …
The COVID-19 pandemic signals both the unique yet all too familiar reality of global isolation for the Haitian nation-state. Yet, even as the pandemic threatens the Haitian people with a tumultuous economic recession and an ongoing political crisis, it also offers them a new opp…