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An agricultural value chain is the integrated range of goods and services (value chain) necessary for an agricultural product to move from the producer to the final consumer. The concept has been used since the beginning of the millennium, primarily by those working in agricultural development in developing countries , although there is no ...
Lionel Robbins' Essay (1932, 1935, 2nd ed., 158 pp.) sought to define more precisely economics as a science and to derive substantive implications. Analysis is relative to "accepted solutions of particular problems" based on best modern practice as referenced, especially including the works of Philip Wicksteed, Ludwig von Mises, and other Continental European economists.
Value chain representation. The term value chain was first popularized in a book published in 1985 by Michael Porter, [18] who used it to illustrate how companies could achieve what he called “competitive advantage” by adding value within their organization.
The campaign was an offshoot of the State Management Scheme set up during the war, and Robbins worked in Mecklenburgh Square, London for Mallon and Arthur Greenwood. [2] [8] In 1920, Robbins resumed studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he was taught by Harold Laski, Edwin Cannan and Hugh Dalton.
Books about agriculture, an activity which encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization , whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities .
In 1988, Wallace Olsen began the Core Literature Project at Mann Library. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Olsen assembled groups of scholars at Cornell University and across the US to determine what the core books and journals in the broad range of subjects relating to agriculture were, both current and historical. [1]
Kaplinsky, Raphael (2006), "How can agricultural commodity producers appropriate a greater share of value chain incomes?", in Sarris, Alexander; Hallam, David (eds.), Agricultural commodity markets and trade: new approaches to analyzing market structure and instability, Cheltenham, UK Northampton, Massachusetts: Food and Agriculture ...
Diet for a New America is a 1987 bestselling nonfiction book by John Robbins. [1] The book links the impacts of factory farming on human health, animal welfare and the environment, in an "animal-rights, pro-environment, vegetarian message." [1] In 1991, KCET produced it as the documentary, Diet for a New America: Your Health, Your Planet. [2]