1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464626703321

Autore

Houmy Karim

Titolo

Agricultural mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa : guidelines for preparing a strategy / / by Karim Houmy [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rome : , : Plant Production and Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, , 2013

ISBN

92-5-107763-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

Integrated crop management, , 1020-4555 ; ; 22-2013

Disciplina

338.161

Soggetti

Farm mechanization - Africa

Agricultural machinery - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).

Nota di contenuto

""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1 Agricultural mechanization strategy formulation: Definitions and principles""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""1.2 SOME TERMINOLOGY USED IN AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION 1.2.1 Agricultural mechanization""; ""1.2.2 The different levels of agricultural mechanization""; ""1.3 SCOPE OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION""; ""1.4 AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT""; ""1.5 FORMULATING A STRATEGY FOR AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION""; ""1.5.1 Formulation of a strategy: A general definition""

""1.5.2 The purpose of formulating a strategy for agricultural mechanization""""1.5.3 Approaches to formulating an agricultural mechanization strategy""; ""CHAPTER 2 Overview of agricultural mechanization in Sub-Saharan African countries""; ""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES""; ""2.3 THE CURRENT STATUS OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES""; ""2.4 FACTORS LEADING TO LOW LEVELS OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION""; ""2.5 DETERMINANTS OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION: LOW DEMAND""



""2.5.1 Unfavourable physical environment""""2.5.2 Unfavourable business environment""; ""2.5.3 Inadequate and insufficient infrastructure""; ""2.5.4 Lack of farmer skills""; ""2.6 CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRIVATE SECTOR""; ""2.6.1 Agricultural machinery importation and distribution""; ""2.6.2 Manufacturing of farm tools and machinery""; ""2.6.3 Maintenance and repair services""; ""2.6.4 Hire services""; ""2.7 NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION DEVELOPMENT""; ""CHAPTER 3 Fundamental requirements for the development of agricultural mechanization""; ""3.1 INTRODUCTION""

""3.2 FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION DEVELOPMENT""""3.3 INCREASING THE DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION""; ""3.3.1 Financing investment in agricultural mechanization""; ""3.3.2 Capacity building""; ""3.3.3 Development of local organizations""; ""3.4 INCREASING AND DIVERSIFYING THE SUPPLY OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY""; ""3.4.1 The manufacturing level""; ""3.4.2 Importation""; ""3.4.3 Machinery contract hire""; ""3.5 CREATING AN ENABLING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT""; ""3.5.1 Exchange rates""; ""3.5.2 Price intervention""; ""3.5.3 Policies on land tenure""

""3.5.4 Infrastructure policy""""3.6 STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT""; ""3.6.1 Public sector departments of mechanization""; ""3.6.2 Research and development""; ""3.6.3 Testing""; ""3.6.4 Extension""; ""3.6.5 Education and training""; ""CHAPTER 4 Strategy formulation: Process and tools""; ""4.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""4.2 PRE-CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMULATION OF A MECHANIZATION STRATEGY""; ""4.3 STEPS TO BE TAKEN""; ""4.4 PREPARATION""; ""4.4.1 Institutional location""; ""4.4.2 Designation of a Project Coordinator""; ""4.4.3 Establishment of a Project Team""

""4.4.4 Elaboration of a Project Plan of Action""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783299503321

Titolo

Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-59875-012-7

1-280-09220-3

0-520-92782-6

9786613520371

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KoDorothy <1957->

HaboushJaHyun Kim

PiggottJoan R

Disciplina

305.4/0951

Soggetti

Women - China - History

Women - Japan - History

Women - Korea - History

Confucianism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONVENTIONS -- Introduction -- 1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan -- 2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō -- 3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography -- 4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China -- 5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China -- 6. Propagating Female Virtues in Chosŏn Korea -- 7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety -- 8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan -- 9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China -- 10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China -- 11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives -- GLOSSARY --



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Sommario/riassunto

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century.