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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Elizabeth R. Williams Abstract In 1905 the establishment of the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA), the forerunner to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, created a forum for bureaucrats and technocrats from around the globe to exchange information about...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 44–53.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Himalaya: An Overview,” in O.P. Singh, ed., The Himalaya: Nature, Man and Culture . New Delhi, Rajesh Publications. Tripathi , R.S. ( 1987 ). Investment, Income and Employment Pattern of Hill Farming in Tehri Garhwal Himalaya . Ranichauri, Tehri Garhwal: Agricultural Economics Section, Hill...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 70–84.
Published: 01 August 1992
... . “Agriculture, Employment and Poverty”, Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. XXI , Nos. 39 and 39 (September 20–27), pp. A90 –A100). Djurfeldt , Göran , and Staffan Lindberg, 1975 . Behind Poverty: The Social Formation in a Tamil Village , London: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Benjamin Siegel In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty. Drawing on Western modernization theory...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 86–102.
Published: 01 May 2017
... to manage the volatility of industrial agriculture (from monocultures, perpetual genetic erosion, cropping intensification, and so on). The movement of agroexport farms into arid regions has been part of these processes of biosecuritization. This analysis of the socioecological conditions of expanded...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Shahnaz Rouse Copyright 1983: Regents, University of California 1983 Accelerated Capital Penetration Into Agriculture
And Changing Class Formation:
A Case Study From A Large Landlord-Dominated Village...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 15–30.
Published: 01 August 1983
... of the Sahyadri range of hills. It has only moderate rainfall, but the rain is well distributed over the year and allows for reliable, rainfed agricultural cultivation of diverse crops. For a case study that refers to the attrition of in-kind payments in two villages in Maharashtra, one of which is Sugao, see...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 12–25.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Kalpana Bardhan Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 REFERENCES Ahluwalia , M.S. “Rural Poverty and Agricultural Performance in India” Journal of Development Studies April 1978 . Alagh , Yoginder , and G.S. Bhalla Performance in Indian Agriculture: a districtwise study...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Nozomi Sawada Despite the predominance of commercial activities in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, the press began to devote more space to agriculture and traditional industry from the end of the nineteenth century. By examining early Lagos newspapers for descriptive patterns...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 109–118.
Published: 01 August 1995
... conducted by the scientists of the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), this paper shows that the net effect of the Green Revolution technology was not impressive even in the research stations. However, an analysis of the discourses on, and the policies of, agricultural development in Kerala shows...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 57–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Andrew Herscher Abstract Emerging in British agricultural discourse in the seventeenth century, the term blight moved from agriculture to culture, and so from countryside to city, in the context of the industrializing American city of the early twentieth century. This city housed increasingly large...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 239–256.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 440–453.
Published: 01 December 2014
... on the British textile spinning and weaving sector and the carbon fibers it extended to Egypt’s agricultural periphery and urban centers. Instead of the advent of a new energy regime, coal inserted itself into existing systems and changed them from within. This rearrangement was characterized, surprisingly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 191–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Istanbul. The state also wanted to facilitate agriculture and commerce. Apart from these general concerns, many aspects of the Trabzon-Bayezid road project related to local needs and demands rather than the central government’s desire to modernize the country. These needs gave rise to both collaboration...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 71–87.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-El-Al portrayed rational development of water resources and agriculture as an organic expression of national identity. These efforts cultivated a critical and technically literate reading public that favored statism and shaped how that public understood their national subjectivity and relationship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... improvement through the development of agricultural and botanical expertise at the advent of British colonial rule in the province, focusing on the materialization of this work in the society's gardens in Lahore. Foregrounding the contingencies of everyday garden making and maintenance, the article posits...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
... these arid entanglements, I show how Almarai's purchase of the Vicksburg farm is part of a genealogy of exchanges between Saudi Arabia and Arizona that dates to the early 1940s. The history of Al Kharj and the decades-long agricultural connections between Arizona and Saudi Arabia sheds light on how specific...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 May 2017
... toward consuming “mixed” bread and toward the black market and military courts themselves. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Egypt World War II food agriculture colonialism The research for this article was made possible by support from a US State Department Bureau of Educational...
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in Primary Materials: Reading Lahore's Disobedient Landscape
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 5. Excerpt from the Punjab Agri-Horticultural Society's Garden Report for 1877–78 discussing plans to clear and drain a part of the garden with “rank vegetation” and “a very offensive smell.” Miscellaneous Report: Lahore; Agricultural-Horticultural Gardens Reports 1875–91 MR/169, folio 5
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 20–26.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Karamat Ali Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988)
Technological Change and Its Impact
on the Rural Structure of Pakistan
Karamat Ali
The evolutionary process of agricultural modernization result, there has been...
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