scholarly journals Paradise in Peril: Dams, Development and Domination

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1641-1645
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
The World ◽  
Dump Yard ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Capital Intensive

Damming rivers is often seen as the panacea of the neo-liberal development paradigm. It is believed to be the fit all solution to problems of agricultural production, flood control, irrigation in arid and semi –arid regions, electricity generation as well as urban development. The industrialization of the world and the adoption of a capital intensive, mechanized and marketoriented production process has dramatically altered the environment as resource-extraction and resource consumption increased manifold. Nature, in fact, became a source of supply of raw materials for feeding the ever growing needs of modernization and development as well as a dump-yard for material waste, slowly heading towards a perilous condition. The paper, therefore, seeks to explore and investigate the issue of damming rivers as a domineering force over nature explicating the power of science over nature.

Labor Acquisition and Social Conflict on the Colombian Frontier, 1850–1936

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine LeGrand
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The World

Exporters of raw materials under Iberian rule, the nations of Latin America continued to perform a similar role in the world economy after Independence. In the nineteenth century, however, a significant shift occurred in the kind of materials exported. Whereas in colonial times the great wealth of Latin America lay in her mineral resources, particularly silver and gold, aster 1850 agricultural production for foreign markets took on larger importance. The export of foodstuffs was not a new phenomenon, but in the nineteenth century the growth in consumer demand in the industrializing nations and the developing revolution in. transport much enhanced the incentives for Latin Americans who would produce coffee, wheat, cattle, or bananas for overseas markets.

scholarly journals Modelling the material and energy costs of the transition to low-carbon energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 00018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Vidal ◽  
Hugo Le Boulzec ◽  
Cyril François
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Generation ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Metal Consumption ◽  
Primary Metal ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Carbon Energy ◽  
Expected Increase

The evolution from 2000 to 2050 of the needs in concrete, steel, aluminium and copper to build the infrastructure of electricity generation is modelled for the scenarios of García-Olivares et al. (2012), Ecofys-WWF (2012) and the blue map scenario of the IEA (2010). A simple dynamic model is used to estimate the primary production, recycling and lost flows as well as the cumulative stocks of material to be produced, to go into the infrastructure and to be lost. The energy of material production is also estimated. When compared with the expected evolution of global material and energy demands, the modelling results suggest that i) the transition to low-carbon energies implies a substantial increase of raw materials and energy consumption, ii) the shorter lifetime of wind and solar facilities and the loss of recycling implies that the total amount of metal to be produced during the deployment of the infrastructure of energy is significantly higher than their amount stocked in the infrastructure, and iii) the needs in materials and energy will occur in a period of expected increase of primary metal consumption at the world scale and limited potential of recycling

scholarly journals Lunar resources

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Economic Interest ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

There is growing interest in the possibility that the resource base of the Solar System might in future be used to supplement the economic resources of our own planet. As the Earth’s closest celestial neighbour, the Moon is sure to feature prominently in these developments. In this paper I review what is currently known about economically exploitable resources on the Moon, while also stressing the need for continued lunar exploration. I find that, although it is difficult to identify any single lunar resource that will be sufficiently valuable to drive a lunar resource extraction industry on its own (notwithstanding claims sometimes made for the 3He isotope, which are found to be exaggerated), the Moon nevertheless does possess abundant raw materials that are of potential economic interest. These are relevant to a hierarchy of future applications, beginning with the use of lunar materials to facilitate human activities on the Moon itself, and progressing to the use of lunar resources to underpin a future industrial capability within the Earth-Moon system. In this way, gradually increasing access to lunar resources may help ‘bootstrap’ a space-based economy from which the world economy, and possibly also the world’s environment, will ultimately benefit.

scholarly journals Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan after the peak of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 03024
Author(s):  
Bakhodir Sultanov ◽  
Lochinbek Amirov ◽  
Mavluda Askarova ◽  
Barna Rakhmankulova ◽  
Maftuna Tosheva
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
World Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
To Come

When studying the topic, the author analyzes the implementation of reforms and their impact on the development of the agricultural sector of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Special attention is paid to the pandemic crisis that has affected all spheres of the economy and the life of the population. The importance of the actions taken by the state in relation to the improvement of the agricultural sector, not only through the production of agricultural raw materials, but also in other ways, is revealed. One of these ways is the production of products that can compete on the world market, the production of semi-finished products, and others. Methods of analysis, synthesis, grouping, observation, and deduction were used in the study of the material. Using these methods, the authors were able to come to a better conclusion, and make suitable conclusions and suggestions. In conclusion, the ways to improve the efficiency of agricultural production, through the introduction of resource-saving technologies, innovative technologies, and especially the removal of state attention to the agricultural sector, are revealed. The article also focuses on the state of agriculture during and after the pandemic, and compares it with other countries of the world. The authors made proposals that are most suitable for the development of agriculture, ensuring food security and independence of the population.

scholarly journals Food security of the Republic of Belarus: achievements and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-41
Author(s):  
A. V. Pilipuk ◽  
G. V. Gusakov ◽  
N. V. Karpovich ◽  
L. T. Yonchik ◽  
L. A. Lobanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Prepared Food

The role and importance is growing fast in the world for international trade, technology transfer, interstate financial cooperation, cooperative and integration, interdisciplinary, regional and international cooperation, including the one in agriculture and food security fields. At the same time, the cases of food insecurity due to situation changes in foreign markets for agricultural raw materials and prepared food are becoming frequent. Access to food becomes a lever of foreign policy influence, and the weight of food expenditures in the structure of consumer spending takes a decisive role in ensuring food security. In this regard, the problem of hunger and malnutrition is still relevant in many regions due lack or deficiency of population income. The paper presents a comprehensive research of modern aspects for ensuring food security at global and national levels, including the current state of agricultural production and its development prospects, international assessment of food security level in countries and regions of the world, global trends in world agricultural trade of raw materials and prepared food, assessment of physical and economic affordability of foodstuff, nutrition level, welfare and public health. The results of assessing the environmental sustainability of agricultural production are presented. The level of public awareness in the field of food security is analyzed. It was determined that in general, there are prospects for Belarus for more efficient food security gaining due to qualitative parameters, for instance, increasing efficiency of resource potential, growth of consumer purchasing power, expansion of domestic market by increasing the proportion of safe functional nutrition for specific population categories according to occupation, age, health status, etc.

World setting: large estates and capital-intensive enterprises

1986 ◽  
Vol 316 (1537) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Capital Intensive

Capital-intensive irrigation schemes occupy only a small percentage of the irrigated land in the world, but their contribution to total production is out of all proportion to their size. Examination of the development of irrigated agriculture in the recent past can help in recognizing the most promising trends, so that world agricultural production can be given a chance o f keeping pace with the increasing demands. Capital-intensive schemes may point a way ahead, by identifying research needs and providing a proving ground for new technology as it becomes available. The worldwide transfer of this technology is the main hope for the future. Scientists and engineers have a vital part to play in developing and applying the new technology that is so urgently needed.

scholarly journals Activity of agroholdings in the world market of agricultural products in the context of globalization

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
World Market ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Agroindustrial Complex

Modern processes of reforming the agroindustrial complex of Ukraine in the conditions of globalization of world economic processes in the agricultural market requires from the domestic agroholdings the improvement and rational management of production activity. So the tendencies of development of agroholdings and other agroformations in modern socio-economic conditions are relevant. In order to study the mechanism of their development, models of interconnection between the components of production of the main types of products of agricultural holdings and the availability of agricultural raw materials are constructed. The main approaches are the multivariate regression modeling of the dependence of production of agricultural holdings on components of agricultural production. The subject of the study in the article is the development of the agroholdings. The goal is researching of the tendencies of development of agroholdings and other agroformations in modern socio-economic conditions. Objectives: research of dynamics of the development of agroholdings of Ukraine in terms of its components in the conditions of globalization of world economic processes in the market of agricultural products. Common scientific methods are used: system analysis for to determine the peculiarities of the development of the agro-industrial production in Ukraine; the regression analysis for calculating of the dependence of production of agricultural holdings on components of agricultural production. The following results: on the basis of the analysis of the dynamics of changes in the main indices of domestic agricultural production were obtained analytical interdependence of factors influencing on development of agroholdings. Conclusions: the multivariate regression model of the dependence of production of agricultural holdings on components of agricultural production is calculated; obtained researchings are expedient to use in foreign economic activity as recommendations for definition of the strategy of Ukraine on the world market of agricultural products.

scholarly journals The Nature of the Firm: Towards an Ecocultural History of Business

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Meisner Rosen ◽  
Christopher C. Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Business History ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it easy to truncate, marginalize or altogether ignore the physical processes by which the stuff of nature—“raw” materials—was carved or coaxed out of mountains, forests, and deserts, channeled into factories and squeezed and cajoled into commodities. They scarcely considered the ever-changing varieties of “waste” generated by businesses and customers, which so often infiltrated, polluted, and otherwise altered the world beyond factory and office. They devoted equally little attention to the effects of resource extraction and use on plants, animals, land, air, or water, much less entire ecosystems and climate.

scholarly journals Problems of meat market in terms of ensuring world’s food security

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13039
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Kopteva ◽  
Irina Romanova ◽  
Svetlana Kulakova
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
Meat Market ◽  
High Uncertainty

The present paper focuses on key problems and specifics of ensuring food security and on state of agro-industrial complexes in different countries of the world. The authors defined the main aspects of state support for agriculture in advanced foreign economies and specified the challenges of food security ensuring. Agriculture is such an industry that brings prosperity to those who can work efficiently and make right decisions under high uncertainty, which may imply unsteady weather conditions, market environment, various production risks. Successful development of agriculture requires the ability to forecast and prevent unfavorable situations. In all countries, the main objective of agricultural production is to fully meet population’s demand for food using its own resources for manufacturing necessary food products. However, some countries do not have their own resources for agriculture, so they have to import finished products and raw materials for food production from other countries. For today, ensuring food security for all countries of the world is one of the most urgent problems of the mankind. Since the United Nations (the UN) was created, the international community has been paying close attention to the shortage of food. The issues of customs tariff regulation, plant and animal health care, administrative barriers – these are the priority tasks demanding systemic approaches, the fulfillment of which will stimulate the breakthrough inagriculture.

scholarly journals Place of agricultural production of Ukraine within the world-system concept

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Natalia Lagodiienko
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
World System ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Added Value ◽  
High Tech ◽  
System Concept ◽  
The World

Introduction. The article assesses the importance of agricultural production within the framework of a world-system concept, which is becoming increasingly relevant in the light of the acceleration of globalization processes. The development of foreign economic relations and trade has a positive effect on the agricultural production efficiency, but in order to prevent the raw materials formation only, it is necessary to look for new priorities. The purpose of the article is substantiation of the agrarian production place in Ukraine within the framework of the world-system concept. Within the limits of the purpose achievement the following tasks are distinguished: to investigate peculiarities and essence of the world-system theory, the countries of the center (nucleus); evaluate the terms of trade in Ukrainian agri-food products; to determine priorities for the development of foreign trade in Ukrainian agri-food products. Results. The index of agricultural exports diversification of Ukraine during the analyzed period worsened - the share of grain in its structure in some years reached 40 %. This testifies to its exceptional raw material orientation. Unlike food or feed grains, such export products as seed products, tree saplings, breeding cattle of high-yielding breeds, dairy products, flour and other semi-finished products and finished foods have a higher level of added value and therefore better price positions in the foreign market. With an increase in the share of such commodities in the structure of agricultural food exports, terms of trade improve, and vice versa. The predominance of such goods in the country's export testifies to high-tech agro-food production, focus on closed production cycle. The dominance in the export structure of Ukrainian agricultural products of food and feed grain indicates the breaking of technological chains in the national agro-industrial complex, the degradation of varietal and breeding business, the decline of livestock industries and so on. Conclusions. Within the framework of the world-system concept, which is becoming increasingly relevant in the acceleration light of globalization processes, Ukraine is deliberately consolidating the status of the country of the peripheral zone. To avoid this prospect, you must: 1) to change the structure of agro-food products export - to reduce the share of grain, seeds of oilseeds (rapeseed) and to increase the share of products with relatively higher added value. These are seed products, high-quality breeding cattle, tree and shrub saplings, primary processing meat, meat and dairy products, prepared foods, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and more. What, first of all, requires stabilization and transition to the cattle population growth, pigs, restoration of domestic breeding and breeding business, modern high-tech seed production, etc.; 2) to bring to the European standards the conditions of supply of dairy and meat raw materials; 3) to increase the capacities of the domestic market for agricultural and food products. Which needs to stimulate demand. Keywords: agrarian production, sustainable development, world-system concept, food security, foreign trade, production efficiency.

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