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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UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English
The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …
allowed for the “confscation” of the white-owned plantations of southern insurrectionists, with land being …
Fraser Institute · 5 April 2024 English
Canada, as with many other environmentally conscientious governments, is pursuing an agenda of an energy transition: away from fossil fuels, and toward a society increasingly driven by wind power, solar …
Fossil fuels extraction 15 0.01 Forest and tree plantations 3,000 2.3 Rights-of-way (pipelines, HV lines) …
AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 31 March 2024 English
The success of the Quebec pilot, combined with the identified need across the agriculture sector for more training opportunities for women led to the expansion of the program Canada-wide and …
state to leave and become day labourers on sugar plantations, said the report by the International Institute …
BC Forest Practices Board · 11 March 2024 English
Audit results of Tolko Industries Ltd. forestry planning and practices on timber licence T0816.
requirements within the required time frames. Plantations were healthy and met the stocking standards contained … requirements within the required time frames. Plantations were healthy and met th... Tolko submitted annual …
Agricultural Policy Research Networks · 11 March 2024 English
3.0 Results and Discussions Socio-Economic Characteristics of Palm Oil producers in the study area The result of socio-economic characteristics of Palm Oil producers in the study area are presented in …
derivatives, primarily from smallholder farms and plantations clustered in the tropical southern regions (Food … in the study area depend on the ownership of plantations as their primary source of processing materials … research work has to do with the aging of existing plantations. In the past, Delta state government and even … beneficiary. This scheme helped in replanting of old plantations across the state. Recent budgetary provisions … plantation. Government and indeed big estate plantations should improved on the existing programme so …
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Canada · 2 March 2024 French
Le projet permettrait d’améliorer le chauffage et le refroidissement des logements sociaux et à loyer plafonné, de prévenir Modernisation les maladies et les problèmes de santé liés à la chaleur …
de flux de naturalisés, des ponceaux et des plantations indigènes. Le projet ajouterait des actifs naturels … les entreprises, le secteur privé, les des plantations de réhabilitation naturelles afin de créer un …
AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 2 March 2024 English
Women Biomass Producers: Energy’s Largest and Largely Invisible Workforce While much of the attention regarding the energy sector is paid to the workers (predominantly male) who labor in the oil …
When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to …
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 29 February 2024 English
NPRB directs research towards species, processes, and dynamics in the marine ecosystems of Alaska, including the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands, and the Chukchi and Beaufort …
towards the sustainable use of mangrove forest plantations. Wetl. Ecol. Manag. 19, 397–407 (2011). 43. McNally …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 28 February 2024 English
This report explores the latest consumption and production trends in the soybean sector and examines what is needed to develop effective incentives that reward soybean farmers for adopting more sustainable …
Reaction Research, 2020, 2022). Ensuring that new plantations occur on degraded land instead of natural lands … resilience and advance climate action in soybean plantations. These practices include prohibiting or prescribing …
SPI: Smart Prosperity Institute · 27 February 2024 English
Precision is required in the manufacturing of mass timber products.114 The scale of mass timber manufacturing the components of a mass timber building (as the building struc- — which involves …
nature-based setting, workers in this ond-growth plantations, which are planted following the removal occupation …
