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Essays On Malawian Agriculture: Micro-Level Welfare Impacts Of Agricultural Productivity; Profitability Of Fertilizer Use; And Targeting Of Fertilizer Subsidy Programs, Francis Addeah Darko

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation comprises of three essays that address different aspects of agriculture in Malawi using a two-wave panel data collected by the National Statistical Office of Malawi with support from the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) program. Each essay stands alone as an independent study because of differences in research questions and the methodologies used in addressing the questions.

The first essay analyzes the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop …

The Decline Of Agriculture And The Rise Of Republican Party Strength In The South, John Marshall Dickey

Doctoral Dissertations

In recent decades, there has been an extensive examination of the resurgence of the Republican Party in the American South in the period after World War II. There were many events that occurred during this time period that might have helped the Republican Party achieve increased success at getting Republican candidates elected in the South. One of the relationships that should be explored is the relationship between the decline of agriculture as the primary provider of jobs and economic prosperity, and the increased ability of the Republican Party to win election to public office. The purpose of this project is …

Reconstructing Late Holocene Fire, Agriculture, And Climate From Sediment Records In Costa Rica And The Dominican Republic, Erik Nicholas Johanson

Doctoral Dissertations

We use multiple proxies from sediment cores to identify periods of climate stress during the late Holocene across the circum-Caribbean region and to determine how fire activity and signals of Pre-Columbian agriculture coincide with these arid periods. We examine evidence of aridity from stable carbon isotope ratios and shifts in elemental composition, along with pollen and microscopic charcoal, at Bao Bog in the highlands of Hispaniola. We infer two major periods of aridity (3600–2300 and 1040–850 cal yr BP), with the later period associated with the late phase of the Terminal Classic Drought. A third, less marked interval of aridity …

Using Gis To Detect Land Use Changes In The Salinas River Valley From 2001 And 2011, Brian Strukan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) to explore, analyze, and interpret our environment is a relatively new technology with exciting new advances emerging each day. GIS can be used along with satellite imagery to detect changes on Earth’s surface (Delavar, 2015). With the human population growing rapidly, it has become very important to monitor when, where, and how we are changing the planet. Using the theory of land economics, coupled with land classification maps from 2001 and 2011, I will explain how cities are changing in the Salinas River Valley, a prime agricultural zone in central California. Are …

Enhancing And Expanding Intersectional Research For Climate Change Adaptation In Agrarian Settings, Mary Thompson-Hall, Edward Carr, Unai Pascual

Sustainability and Social Justice

Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of …

1919 And 1920, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

Agricultural Trade Publications And The 2012 Midwestern U.S. Drought: A Missed Opportunity For Climate Risk Communication, Sarah P. Church, Tonya Haigh, Melissa Widhalm, Silvestre Garcia De Jalon, Nicholas Babin, Stuart Carlton, Michael Dunn, Katie Fagan, Cody L. Knutson, Linda Stalker Prokopy

Department of Forestry & Natural Resources Faculty Publications

The Midwestern United States experienced a devastating drought in 2012, leading to reduced corn and soybean yields and increased instances of pests and disease. Climate change induced weather variability and extremes are expected to increase in the future, and have and will continue to impact the agricultural sector. This study investigated how agricultural trade publications portrayed the 2012 U.S. Midwestern drought, whether climate change was associated with drought, and whether these publications laid out transformative adaptation measures farmers could undertake in order to increase their adaptive capacity for future climate uncertainty. We performed a content analysis of 1000 media reports …

1921 And 1922, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1923 And 1924, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1925 And 1926, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1927 And 1928, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1909 And 1910, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1907 And 1908, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1911 And 1912, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1913 And 1914, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1915 And 1916, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1917 And 1918, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1881 And 1891, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1899 - 1902, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1903 And 1904, California State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1883 And 1884, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1885 And 1886, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1887 And 1888, State Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Description: Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1889 And 1890, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1893 And 1894, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1891 And 1892, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1895 And 1896, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1897 And 1898, California Board Of Equalization Report

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

1905 And 1906, California Board Of Equalization Reports

California Board of Equalization Reports

Written report concerning activities of Board of Equalization and statistical tables specific to California agricultural, livestock and viticulture for each county. (To view complete report containing all statistical tables, see URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100187327 or https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007150404.)

James Meadows, Diseños Glo No. 284, Monterey County, Diseños And Associated Historical Documents.

Monterey County

Diseños - Hand-drawn Spanish-Mexican map demonstrating the physical boundaries of land granted to Mexican citizens by the Spanish or Mexican.

Expediente – Hand-written Spanish-Mexican land grant document issued to Mexican citizens in Alta California for land in Alta-California.

Work Progress Administration Abstract (WPA Abstract) – A summary document prepared in 1938 under the Work Progress Administration program detailing the history of a rancho beginning with the Spanish-American land through the U.S. patenting process.

Hoffman Notes -- Summary of information concerning claims made for the Rancho lands from the Appendix listing Table of Land Claims in the Reports of Land Cases …