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Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts
Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca And Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Bolivia in the 1980s was wracked by monetary inflation approaching levels of the German Weimar Republic. Immediately following this time of great financial crisis in Bolivia, the U.N. founded a project through the U.N.D.P. to encourage peasant farmers in Bolivia to switch from growing coca (the plant used manufacture cocaine) to growing other cash crops for market. This crop substitution and development program, called the Agroyungas Project, lasted from 1985 to 1991 and is the focus of this study. While many U.N. pundits and journalists considered the program’s initial small successes promising, it has been considered since its conclusion to …
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
Vision Of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (On Less Than Two Acres!), Madeleine K. Charney
University Libraries Publication Series
A Montague, Massachusetts family relishes their traditional homesteading lifestyle.
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
Athol Slaughterhouse Rises From The Ashes, Madeleine K. Charney
University Libraries Publication Series
Plans for rebuilding the Athol slaughterhouse destroyed by fire in 2006.
Conference Keynoter Defends Practices Buried In New England’S Agricultural History, Plans For Future, Madeleine K. Charney
Conference Keynoter Defends Practices Buried In New England’S Agricultural History, Plans For Future, Madeleine K. Charney
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Brian Donahue, environmental historian, debunks the myths of early New England farming practices.
Laotian Agricultural Statistics, Joel Halpern
Laotian Agricultural Statistics, Joel Halpern
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
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