Essays on Agricultural

In countries around the world, children are suffering and dying from malnutrition, disease, and poverty secondary to drought or flooding. Changes in climate create many risks to the lives of children and their families as they struggle to survive in areas where food is difficult to grow and workers are poorly paid. Due to the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer scarcity of clean water with the result of perilous diseases and health complications. Disasters and humanitarian crises may bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational, health, ...

Introduction

For understanding how the corn industry and the industry of water, I have interviewed with the marketing professionals from these two industries. Considering that marketing departments monitor the demand conditions, they can give us adequate information about their market.

Interviewer: What type of industry are you operating in? Marketing Professional 1: Producing corn requires using large lands, machinery, and knowledge of cultivating corn. Therefore, a company needs to have a high amount of financial resources to enter this market. Also, producing corn requires having the scientific knowledge for agricultural production. Changing climate and worse environmental conditions force us to ...

Climate change poses many risks to the lives of children. Because of the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer from food and water scarcity and perilous diseases and health complications. More disasters and humanitarian crises would bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational and economic activities (UNICEF, p.8). Given this situation, the future of children at the worldwide scale remains under peril. Governments and other agencies concerned on the welfare of children must do something to address this worsening situation, or the children will pay the price. Climate ...

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Global Breakout

In the overall context, the revenue per day has grown 9.066% from $96,976 to $105,768. The contribution of revenue from Domestic segment has increased by 9.98% while the International segment grew by only 2.4%. On a quarter to quarter growth basis, the JFM quarter revenue for 2016 is $66,119,977 and the April to June quarter ...

Introduction

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The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups Influences of the Protestant Church Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church Current Economic and Cultural Development Cultural Development Introduction Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

The concept of free trade has indeed presented some industries as more appealing to the consumer than others. For instance, the standard practice is that most agricultural food processing and manufacturing industries are liked and loved by the public while the agricultural non-food processing industries such as the tobacco industry have been continuously subjected to criticism and unjustified treatment from the larger public. The tobacco industry, in particular, has been subjected to excessive taxation, stringent operational rules and regulations and publicly portrayed as a health hazard primarily because tobacco smoking and usage is associated with liver cirrhosis and some ...

The human civilization started from the bottom of the hierarchy among the species and becomes the most supreme or influential specie in the modern times. People have greatly changed the world. The grasslands and forests became cities and agricultural lands. The natural environment has been useful for humans and provides people almost everything they need to survive on earth. The natural environment provided the oxygen, water, food, materials and other resources to humans (Muir 37). However, instead of being thankful to the environment, people have been destroying it in order to acquire additional benefits such as additional land use ...

Discussion 2

Californios? Manifest destiny was a concept used by the Americans as a vision to enhance the expansion of their country regarding its exceptional behaviour, its size and regarding the general importance of the country globally. California began growing rapidly when deposits of gold were found in it. Many people came to California to trade for gold in the gold rush, and in the process, California turned from a remote, deserted land to a busy growing place. For example, San Francisco substantially grew from a small settlement of about 800 people to a big city of about hundred thousand people ...

Volatile Prices of Primary Goods Preventing Economic Development in LDCs

Background The primary goods refer to the products that are obtained directly from agricultural activities and are not subjected to the process of manufacturing. The most important primary products in an economy include those that are obtained from the sector, such as the fishing, agricultural, forestry, and mining industries. In terms of the least developed nations, which are mainly located in Africa, Asia, and the Latin America, the trade characteristics of their economies include the dependence on the developed, industrialized nations, and, significantly, the reliance on primary products. Accordingly, in international trade, the least developed nations’ exports are primary ...

Franklin Roosevelt

According to Franklin Roosevelt, the main cause of the problems experienced in the United States during that period was a lack of a firm belief in the American ideology leading to a situation where most people abandoned the need for empowerment in the country. To help deal with the issue of unemployment, Roosevelt (1933) suggested the need for commitment towards direct employment from the government itself. In addition, he suggested the requirement for a reorganization and stimulation of projects focusing on the country’s natural resources to help drive some form of economic empowerment. On the other hand, Roosevelt ...

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Summary Report 1

What factors contributed to the problem? Volcanic activity is a major contributing factor to the issue of climate change. The eruption of volcanoes leads to the release of large quantities of water vapor, ash, dust, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. In the atmosphere, these sulfur dioxide molecules will react with water vapor leading to the formation of sulfuric acid, which is then spread all over the world through winds. The sulfuric acid formed in the atmosphere can significantly affect the amount of solar radiation entering the Earth’s surface and thereby the ...

Introduction

Every parent envisions a future where their children and grandchildren live in a rich and resourceful environment that essentially provides them with everything that they need to survive. However, what if parents were informed of a pending doom where their children will live in an extremely toxic environment where there aren't enough basic resources such as fresh drinking water or where the climate is comprised of harsh conditions that threaten their lives on a daily basis? What if they were informed that by the time their children are adults, a diverse range of the existing species of animals will ...

Introduction

The Aral Sea is located in Central Asia and was the fourth largest saline lake in the world containing 10grams of salt per liter before its water supply was interrupted (Rama, 2002). In 1960, the Soviet government undertook a diversion project for the rivers that fed the sea. This was an attempt to irrigate the desert region surrounding the sea to support agricultural activities. This led to the transformation of the desert into cotton farms among other forms of farms. Diversion of the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers led to environmental, social, and economic effects felt by ...

It is one of the ironies of history that the “old west” was actually the last area of the north American continent to be settled. By 1860, for example, San Francisco, California was a booming city of 56,802 persons making it the 15th largest city in the nation (San Francisco Population). Kansas City, meanwhile, had a population of 4,418 (U.S. Census Bureau). Denver, Colorado was already the “Queen City of the Plains” with a population of 4,749 (Population of Denver, CO). These three communities are important since Denver and Kansas City represent the western and eastern ...

Introduction

The victory of the allied powers in the Second World War was highly associated with the American entry into the war. The United States of America brought with them a military muscle consisting of state of the art mechanization and strategic military geniuses. The citizens of the United States of America had been through the most devastating economic depression in their history as the nation was followed by the ensuing regimentation just before the war started. The Second World War is probably the most mechanized and dreaded war in the history mainly due to its outcome and effects on ...

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through central Chile on the fateful morning of 27th February 2010. The epicenter was 100 kilometers north-northwest of Chile. The devastation was massive and economic and ecological impacts were debilitating. This paper attempts to present a detailed report on the aftershocks of the earthquake. A comprehensive discussion is expected to impart a holistic understanding of various consequences of this natural disaster. Chilean earthquake, marked as the 5th strongest earthquake since 1900, significantly altered geographical boundaries. The city of Concepcion shifted around three meters to the west, and the capital Santiago moved eleven inches ...

First Entry: My name is John Claude a thirty five years old male working as a Parish Priest of the First Estate. I have not married and I am not expected to marry because as a career priest I have vowed to abstain. We as the members of the First Estate believe that the Third Estate need to be taxed because they do not have power, they are in the lowest rank of the social scale and they consume significant resources. However, we cannot be taxed because people look at us for religious growth and education and we heavily ...

The trade and investment relationship between Australia and China demolishes the theory of comparative advantage. According to Adam Smith and Ricardo, it makes sense for a country to focus on the production of goods and services it can do efficiently and purchase goods and services it produces less efficiently from other countries. When this theory is applied to the trade relationship between Australia, a rich country and China, a poor country, we arrive at a paradoxical outcome. The introduction of a free trade regime resulting in Australia-China trading relationship implies that Australian consumers will pay lower prices for imported ...

Introduction

Climate change is a major environmental problem, causing concern to various corners of our ecosystem. It is a result of global warming, environmental pollution and inefficient use of our natural resources. Climate change has affected almost all living organisms, including plants, animals, microorganisms and undoubtedly, man. It poses a serious threat to our ecosystem and is listed as a major concern in the Grand Challenges of the U.N. for Millennium Development and Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Garrett 490). A wide variety of its implications, have made climate change, an important topic for researchers. There has been more awareness among researchers ...

The Impact of the Guaranteed Price Policy on the European Sugar Market

Sugar industry is one of the most dynamic in the structure of the food industry and plays a significant role in the economies of several countries. The European Union leads the five largest importers of sugar. Sugar production in the EU is expected to grow by 10% in the 2017/18 season. The production may reach 18.3 million tons, but still will be lower than the record 2014/15 season (19.4 million tons). Sugar production growth is expected in France (up to 5.5 million tons) and the UK (up to 1.4 million tons). However, despite the increase in production, the EU ...

Eutrophication is the phenomenon caused by the increasing amount of nutrients in the water bodies which results to the decrease in the oxygen concentration and death of aquatic animals. The main nutrient which commonly caused eutrophication in some of the water bodies is the phosphates. In this process, nutrients from soil are carried to the water bodies through erosion (Chislock et al., 2013). The high amounts of nutrients in the water bodies results to the increase in aquatic plants and algae such as the phytoplankton. The decay of these plants and algae converts oxygen to other by-products resulting to ...

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Introduction China is home to the most ancient and enduring human civilization. This civilization flourished for thousands of years and have survived through many succession of rulers and dynasties. The study of China’s civilization is important in order to understand China’s contemporary society. Chinese civilization can be categorized into three broad historical periods: ancient China, Imperial China and modern China. These periods, however, only serves as an imaginary partition in order to identify a certain time in the history of China. But in reality, Chinese civilization is continuous and was never interrupted even through there ...

Before 1790, the American economy started to grow due to Alexander Hamilton’s activity. The most evident developments appeared within the domestic sector. His policy included funding of the internal, foreign, and state debts, as well as the foundation of the First Bank of the US. He also managed to establish a decent credit basis. However, during 1790-1860, such factors as alterations in transportation, communications, and agricultural production lead to tremendous growth in the whole US economy. Agriculturalists, land speculators, and merchants were considered as the main investors in transportation corporations. While merchants and speculators were investing money with ...

Pollution from agricultural runoff has brought great danger to both human beings and the organisms that live in water. Various chemicals used in crop production are dragged into water sources, poisoning the water (Kennen & Kirkwood, 2015). This poses a danger to the existence of living organisms. Consumption of contaminated water by humans leads to waterborne diseases such as cryptosporidiosis which causes diarrhea, vomiting, fever, weight loss, and stomach cramps (Lichtfouse, 2009). The essay below describes significant ways in which this form of pollution can be prevented. First, fencing of livestock grazing areas at about 100 meters from water sources ...

My Relationship with the Environment

“You look at that river gently flowing by [] it's peaceful. And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this.”” – Al Gore, The Inconvenient Truth (2006). The environment. Since our birth to the world, anything that happens to it affects us in so many ways. We hear it being mentioned in a lot of our current events - something is wrong with it, and that something must be resolved soon. The thing about the environment is that all the problems related to it ...

The institutional affiliation

It should be emphasized that sometimes globalization of fast food can have risks to local culture and economy. It is true to say that a lot of Asian nations are going through impetuous changes in the economy and society, which lead to drastic alterations in the lifestyle and dietary habits. The abundance of fast food in Asian countries instantiates the extensive impact of complex food marketing that works on globalization and the growing wealth of the area (An Pan, 2012). Food corporations have spent a good deal of money to promote Americanization of fast food with moderate directive or ...

Introduction

Firms in different industries across Australia operate in varying market structures including oligopoly, monopoly, and monopolistic markets. Monopoly firms include Telstra, a telecommunications company that has over the years proved to be the dominant supplier of the internet and mobile services. Grocery supermarkets including Aldi, Woolworths, and Coles operate in oligopoly structures where they have dominance over smaller grocery retailers. Firms operating in the monopolistic structure include restaurants and hairdressing shops where firms aim at expanding their market share through product differentiation. The paper, therefore, uses examples drawn from Australian markets to discuss various market structures.

Oligopoly market structure in Australia

The grocery retail ...

The Hershey Company was founded in 1894, and is an international leader in superiority and non-chocolate confectionary and chocolate associated grocery in the Northern American industry. The company also has a good reputation and is a leader in the gum and mint industry. The company’s leading rivals are Purdy’s, Nestle and Meiji. Hershey employs a number of strategies which have continued to ensure that the company remains ahead of its competition. These strategies include a competitive advantage, international markets, and measures of cost, productivity and opportunities. The company can steer its growth by seizing opportunities with the ...

Industry Environment

According to the U.S. Dairy Export Council (2015), there were 9.3 million cows which produced 93.4 million tons of milk in the United States in 2014. The country has about 50,000 farms under dairy farms which are majorly family-owned (U.S. Dairy Export Council, 2015). Dairy farming is practiced in all the 50 states as well as in Puerto Rico, and it is the leading agricultural business in Arizona, California, Michigan, Idaho, New York, New Hamshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 74 percent of dairy farms in the country have less than 100 cows, and the average ...

Abstract

A sandstorm is characterized as one that whips up extraordinary loads of sand into the air, forming a dense cloud above the ground in the process. While most of the sand will rise higher than 50 cm, some sand particles can even ascend to the height of 2 meters. According to Wikipedia, the average diameter of the particles carried by such dust storm winds will vary between 0.15 and 0.30 mm. Wind speeds such during sandstorms have been recorded at up to 16 km per hour and more, while most storms continue to blow for between three hours to ...

Introduction:

Description: The court case deals with a dispute over an easement given on a car park's property. At the time of the trial, the respondent had been attempting to limit the amount of time that the easement was allowed to be used while a tavern owner contended that the patrons of their business would be unable to take full advantage of the area during important hours. The limitation of five hours on the parking area’s use would profoundly limit the access that their customers have to parking. The rights of the easement as expressed by the grantee have ...

Question 1

One of the UN global compact issues is sustainable food growth to ensure food security for all human population. The issue of food security is prevalent in several parts of the world with Africa being the worst hit (Williams and Oliver 755). A great percentage of the African population is unable to feed themselves despite the continent being largely agricultural. According to Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, which is a constituent of the UN, as of 2015, more than 239 million Africans were faced with hunger with the figures expected to rise in the future. The UN categorises food ...

Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

A00493777 Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States

Introduction

According to a recent presentation by The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength and stamina, and it is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health ...

Introduction

The Warehouse Group Limited is one of New Zealand’s largest retailers. It has deals on an array of products like clothing, entertainment, grocery, technology and many more. The company is officially termed as TW Group. It was founded by Stephen Tindall in 1982. It maintains 92 stores in New Zealand with an employee base of around 9,000 people (The warehouse official site). Multiple services subsidiaries including but not limited to Warehouse Stationery, Warehouse Group Financial Services and Waikato Valley Chocolates constitute the total TW Group. The Warehouse operates in retail industry selling wide range of grocery and ...

St Louis and New Orleans were the furthest points in the West in 1860. San Francisco was not in existence, and the whole of the population was composed of native tribes that were cut out from active participation in the national economy. There was no transport system, and the farthest point of the railroad was in St Louis while the area between Chicago and San Francisco was largely untapped for economic activities like mining and agricultural production. There were more than forty native tribes, but their population did not cross the 100,000 mark. The population grew very fast ...

North Potomac is an unincorporated and a census-designated city that was created from the peripherals of Rockville and Gaithersburg. The city is located in Maryland in the United States. North Potomac City has a population of about 24,410, 6,867 families, and 8,040 households according to the 2010 census. Additionally, the census data shows that the city has a population density of about 3,552 people in a unit square mile (US Census, 2010). This paper will characterize various aspects of the city.

Social Spaces

A social space entails any virtual or physical space where people come together and ...

Business Case

It is my hope that this finds you well. I am writing to report the case of a broken electrode. The broken electrode is a component of a pH meter belonging to the Soil Science Center (“The Agricultural Institute mystery: The case of broken electrode”). The pH meter was borrowed on Monday morning on the date of this email. The Insect Diagnostics Laboratory and the Soil Science Center have for a long time been sharing the equipment. Consequently, the borrowing of the equipment on this particular day was in the ordinary conduct of business in the two laboratories. The ...

The American civil war in the West: Grant’s River War

Introduction The American Civil War is among the majorly discussed wars in the history of the United States. Ideally, Civil War is considered a central event in the U.S historical civilisation. While it is evident that the revolution that occurred in 1776-1783 facilitated the establishment of the United States, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 provided a suitable platform for the determination of the future of the United States (Doyle, 2014). Fundamentally, it offered the solutions to two major questions initially created by the revolution, and these included whether the United States was going to be transformed into a ...

The Association between Physical Activity and Level of Depression among Youths in the United States proposal

Introduction According to a recent presentation by The Center for Disease and Control and Prevention, frequent physical activity among youths and adolescents is an important factor in enhancing strength, stamina and is helpful in building healthy bones and muscles (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). It was also discovered that physical activities are a critical factor in reducing stress and depression among the youths. Failing to engage in regular physical activity has been established to cause obesity and overweight as well as other health related complications (Azevedo Da Silva et al., 2012). Thus implementing a regular physical activity ...

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Executive Summary Deere is a company that deals in the manufacturing and distribution of a diverse range of agricultural, commercial, consumer, construction, and forestry equipment. Lately, the company’s margins in the gatherer chain have been reducing. This chain constitutes one of the most popular products sold by the company’s Agricultural Products Division. The diminishing margins were mainly attributed to increased market competition and the increasing purchase cost of the chain from Saunders. This paper aims at evaluating this issue and, subsequently, providing solutions to the problem. Deere operates in a market that is highly competitive. As such, ...

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Introduction Wheat (Triticum sp.), an extensively adapted crop, is one of the primitive and primary staple food crops in the world. Wheat is cultivated from temperate; dry to irrigated or rain-fed areas, to warm, humid or cold conditions. Such a high adaptability is attributed to its intricate genome (Acevedo et al., 2002). Wheat cultivation covers more land area compared to other commercial crops and endures to be an essential food grain for humans (Curtis, 2002). Estimations reveal that by 2050, the population of the world will reach 9.1 billion (34 percent greater than today); correspondingly, the food requirement and ...

Globalization is defined as a social, economic, and political process that makes it easier for people, goods, ideas and capital to travel around the world at an unprecedented pace. Globalization makes the world look and feel much smaller. It can be also described as a process of complex interconnections between various societies, cultures, individuals and institutions that happens worldwide. Though globalization itself is not absolutely new and novel, its rapid development is mostly associated with the introduction of new modern technologies. Very often globalization is considered to be a modern or very contemporary phenomenon, and is associated mostly with ...

Introduction

The African diaspora has resulted in a wave of “migration” of Africans from the African continent to other parts of the world. The main reason for this is the slave dispersal that moved Africans from Africa to America, the Middle East and even to the Far East. The dispersal that took place is thought to be one of the greatest forced migrations in the history of humankind (Britannia Academic: Slavery). There is always the ideology that all Africans, no matter where they find themselves around the world, are bound together by their traditional cultures and diasporic experiences. This paper ...

Introduction

Climate change is among the significant factors impacting ecological diversity on a worldwide scale. The growth of industries and the increasing human population globally have resulted in a rise in the volume of greenhouse gasses, which scientists have argued are the greatest contributors to the menace. The Florida Keys is one of the ecological treasures of the U.S. that continues to be impacted negatively by climate change and anthropogenic activities. This ecological treasure, which is located at the tip of the state of Florida, comprises about 1,700 islands that stretch for more than 200 miles to the west ...

Introduction

Brazil is one of the fascinating developing economies, which economic and social progress over the period of 2003-2014 lifted over 29 million people from extreme poverty. Based on the World Bank (2015) statistics, the inequality rate in the country fell by 11% with the income level of the poorest 40% of the population rose by as much as 7.1% over the same period. At the same time, global financial crisis and political instability in the country over the past few years have had its negative impact on the economy as a whole, reflecting stagnation in inequality reduction and deterioration ...

Introduction

In spite of the contribution of urbanization to the economic growth in Zhejiang, its adverse effects far much outweigh the positives since sustainability of the ecosystem and the society is at stake. Environmental concerns, particularly air pollution, are real threats to the ecosystem since they lead to increased atmospheric temperatures which in turn result in climate changes. Urbanization contributes to pollution through higher energy consumption and motorization that have resulted in higher volumes of greenhouse gasses emitted in the air. The shrinking of natural resources is another consequence of urbanization where there is the rampant destruction of natural habitats, ...

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Introduction The extensive scarcity of food is known as famine, which causes a high extent of mass starvation in the region. The prevalence of famine has been observed in every continent of the world, however, some countries like Sub-Sahara Africa still encounter with the drastic effects of famine (Baro and Deubel 522). The current paper enlightens the causes and effects of famine and presents the preventive measures to reduce the prevalence of famine.

Causes

The scarcity of food is observed to be caused by the ineffective distribution of food or imbalance in the demand and supply of food. ...

Influence of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 2

Economic growth of countries outside the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development 4 Bric: Brazil, Russia, India and China 5 Trade between non-OECD countries 5 Climate Change Policy 7 The greenhouse effect 7 Strengthening the greenhouse effect 8 Global climate change 8 Oil reserves in the world 10 Influence of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) OPEC long ago lost its hegemony in the world oil market but remains a major influence on prices against the formidable challenge of US oil shale. OPEC decided she decides to continue producing in abundance not to give more ground to ...

INTRODUCTION

Many countries rely on agricultural crops for the food security of their citizens and the stability of their economy. Cultivating crops allowed humans to meet their increasing demands for crops and continue to prosper. Without agricultural products, civilizations would have been different or would have failed to exist. People would have relied on gathering crops and end up exhausting every available resource there is. Nevertheless, as societies and their demands for agricultural crops advance, more strain are put into the environment. People have cultivated crops continuously and some have done it without much regards to the environment. There have ...

Abstract

After the 9/11 event agro-terrorism has continually been recognized as a national security threat. It aims at depriving citizens off the confidence they have in the government. The act also endangers human life as the contaminated food is unhealthy. Agriculture has much vulnerability and although it does not have the shocking factors as other terrorist strategies it may be used as a secondary target. The US not having been a victim of a large-scale, successful agro-terrorism attack is not a guarantee that the nation’s agricultural and food processing systems are secure. Many policies have been implemented and initiatives ...

Applying the knowledge of microeconomics in practice allows solving various issues that producers are facing. The importance of microeconomic analysis becomes more evident during the periods of economic slowdown like the current one. As the economic activity decreases, prices fall and firms have to find ways in order to remain profitable. This issue is crucial for agricultural producers, that currently facing the simultaneous decrease in prices and increase in input costs, as indicated by the recent news article (Hawkes, 2016 July 19). The author believes that the USDA program would help to reduce variable costs in the crop industry. ...

Mao ruled China for the period from 1949 to 1976. During his leadership, Mao oversaw several initiatives that aimed to put across the progress of the country. Several of these revolutionary changes captured the attention of the media and received intensive debate from professionals and members of the Republic. Among the initiatives that received media attention is the five-year plan that was published in the first week of August 1955. The information in the extracts of the China Mainland Press indicated that the plan was drafted to happen between the years 1953 to 1957 (Pong, 2009). The five-year plan ...

Joseph Stalin was a ruthless dictator and the ruler of the early Soviet Union whose main agenda was to gain total control over the economy of the Soviet economy. His ability to maintain power was founded on the forceful seizure of millions of farms previously owned by private individuals and also by terrorizing millions of the Soviet citizens including the communist party members. Given full control of the Soviet economy, Stalin started a modernization plan by establishing the Five Year Project plan. The five-year plan had totally despicable goals for everything ranging from each sector of the economy to ...

Essay & Discussion

The Politics of Food, Nutrition and the Environment The family farm system has been suggested to be a solution to the increasing demand for food, which is expected to grow extensively by 2050 (AGree, 2014).Such projections are based on population growth which then inform the food needs on a global scale(AGree, 2014). Agricultural resources required to meet this demand are heavily reliant on policy and economic growth. Concerns of the negative consequences of the current agricultural system which relies heavily on technology and methods of production which harm our health and environment(Schlosser, 2012), has led to ...

Disease and Type of Prevention Method

The disease that is being studied is the Rice Blast disease. It is one of the most serious diseases related to rice which is caused by the bacteria Magnaporthe grisea. It could result to a loss of about 10 to 20 % of rice production. It is a common agricultural problem around the world and it could reduce the global rice production of up to 40 to 50%. The rice blast disease also attacks large amounts of rice fields in China during the 1990s (Peng et al., 2016). In the study, the rice blast in Nanchong City was studied and ...

Marchant (2013) wrote the article Management Accounting in the 21st Century: A Profession for Which the Time Has Come, about the growing importance of management accountants in the new century. The author indicates that the twenty-first century has witnessed the emergence of an economy based on the information age, in which knowledge is a primary source of competitiveness. As the boundaries of traditional industries become a blur, there is a new level of demand for the skills of today`s accountants (Marchant, 2013). Marchant (2013) underline the importance of developing an analytical ability, by assembling a team of professionals ...

The journey towards the European Union (EU) integration has experienced several turnings. This section of the essay will detail some of the core turning points in the EU integration. Establishment of a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was a major turning point in EU integration. The Treaty of Rome defined the specific objectives of the CAP. The CAP was introduced in 1962 (Folmern.p). The establishment of the CAP was enshrined to the state of food shortages after World War II. The aim of the CAP was to build a common European Community market and to cut off tariffs on agricultural ...

In January 2014, Congress passed an act that would promote reform of agricultural programs in the United States which would become known as the Farm Bill (GPO.gov, 2014) and it was signed into law in February 2014 (NIFA.usda.gov, 2016). In addition to agricultural programs, the bill supports employment and research within the industry (YouTube, 2014). It also relegates funding for tribal institutions for Native Americans and black institutions such as Central State University in Ohio.

Evolution

The origin of the farm bill began in the 1920s as farmers faced drastically lower crop prices at the end of World War I ...

Women and oppression

The idea of oppression of women has two dimensions. First, before the advent of the working economy when women were pressured to work, they undertook roles within the family set up that promoted subservience to men. On the other hand, men worked hard to provide for the woman and their families. One view about this would be that women were relegated to the second position in the power chain in the family and society, while men were the overall power holders. On the other hand, when the working economy came into place, circumstances pushed women to join formal employment, ...

The article presents the application of nuclear technologies in agriculture, medicine and industry. The numerical characteristics of the nuclear technologies in the US economy are presented. The general concepts of sterilizing medical equipment with radiation, the principles of drug testing using radioisotopes, as well as the diagnostic techniques are discussed. The therapeutic application of radiation for cancer treatment and arteria-venous malformation are described. In agriculture, radiation is applied for higher crop production, to improve animal health, and eradicate the pests. The industrial application of radiation are process control, plant diagnostics, material development and testing (Waltar, 2003). The article opens ...