Plantations
A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations are located. Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire, which produced large quantities of grain, wine and olive oil for export. Plantation agriculture grew rapidly with the increase in international trade and the development of a worldwide …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
of the Tiétar River, there are huge tobacco plantations that give you an idea of what the climate in …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English
All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …
towards the sustainable use of mangrove forest plantations. Wetl. Ecol. Manag. 19: 397–407. 43. McNally …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
mass starvation. From the time of the British plantations in Ireland in the sixteenth century and throughout …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 10 September 2024 English
Harold Rhenisch’s poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties laid out in couplets that move between English and …
water, against the buildersof industrial apple plantations. These are songs for the sandhill cranes, who … builders of water schemes and industrial apple plantations, their mothers conceived them. Behold, you desire …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout …
occurred in Sumatra where commercial palm oil plantations had replaced large tracts of primary rainforest … cash crops, especially coffee, the largest plantations still owned by foreigners, and from mining operations …
Canada Council for the Arts · 20 August 2024 French
Publié aussi en anglais sous le titre : Annual report on the activities of the PLR Commission and of the PLR Program. Publié par le Conseil des arts du Canada.
POUR TOUS ET TOUTES Un éclairage doux, des plantations abondantes et l'utilisation de matériaux organiques …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 19 August 2024 English
Adapting to the impacts of climate change requires changing behaviour on an individual and a collective level, from how households make a living to how communities manage ecosystems, as well …
was first introduced in Fiji in the sugarcane plantations in the 1950s (Truong & Creighton, 1994). It … for our riverbanks and slopes as well as our plantations. We want to continue with vetiver but also want …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 9 August 2024 English
This case study analyzes the extent to which a small agribusiness in Rwanda complies with international standards for responsible investment in agriculture.
using my money from the job on the Mahembe plantations and from my coffee to pay for them.” (Mahembe …
BC Forest Practices Board · 30 July 2024 English
Audit results of forestry planninng and operations of BCTS Boundary TSA portion of the Kootenay Business Area.
confirmed BCTS met free-growing obligations and plantations looked healthy and vigorous. ARC266 – BCTS: BOUNDARY …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …
hemispheres.22 Supplying the slave trade and plantations became an important part of the business of many …