Herbert S Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna

Feeding the World

Brazil's Transformation Into a Modern Agricultural Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9781108460972
• ISBN-10: 1108460976
• Artikelnr.: 54326717

Autorenporträt

Herbert S. Klein is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University and Research Fellow and Latin American Curator at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of graphs
List of tables
Introduction
1. Antecedents
2. The new agricultural economy post 1960
3. Causes for the modernization of Brazilian agriculture
4. Productivity, technology, and sustainability
5. Regional pattern of agriculture
6. The case of Mato Grosso
7. Rio Grande do Sul
8. São Paulo
9. The Agrarian question
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.