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FINANCIAL PROFITABILITY OF MALI-SUD BAS-FOND RICE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
No full textThe high costs of rehabilitating and/or expanding government-managed irrigated schemes in Mali (Office du Niger) has prompted policy-makers and researchers to explore the potential for the underdeveloped farmer-managed bas-fond to contribute to ensure an adequate rice supply and increase rural households' incomes. Because little is known about nas-fond rice production in Mali, this paper analyzes its financial profitability based on data collected from a random sample of 221 farmers. Data analysis revealed that there are numerous rice production systems in the bas-fond. Budget analysis showed that the four most common bas-fond production systems yield higher returns than the opportunity cost of labor and they are more profitable than the main upland crops competing with rice for farmers labor (cotton, sorghum/millet, and maize). Within a given bas-fond system, however, profitability varies considerably across farms.Agricultural Finance, Crop Production/Industries,
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
"The day of the great writer is gone for ever": Author surrogacy in Martin Amis’s Money and J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime.
No full textThis study focuses on the use of author surrogacy in the novels Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis and Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee. It addresses the connection between their use of author surrogacy and their comments on what scholars classify as the postmodern cultural condition. Both authors have written themselves into their novels with a different purpose but both used strikingly similar themes to incorporate this purpose, although the stress on these themes varies. Authorial power, the distinction between the real and the imagined, and the fading line between high- and lowbrow culture are examples of the topics discussed in this study with regards to author surrogacy and the postmodern cultural condition. This study concludes that, through their use of author surrogacy, J.M. Coetzee mainly aims to critique, while Martin Amis satirises postmodern culture.
Keywords: Amis, author surrogacy, authorial power, Coetzee, fact-fiction distinction, high- and lowbrow culture, postmodern cultural condition
J.M. Léotard , LG. Straus et M. Otte L'abri du Pape. Bivouacs, enterrements et cachettes sur la Haute Meuse belge : du Mésolithique au Bas Empire Romain
No full textRozoy Jean-Georges. J.M. Léotard , LG. Straus et M. Otte L'abri du Pape. Bivouacs, enterrements et cachettes sur la Haute Meuse belge : du Mésolithique au Bas Empire Romain. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 97, n°4, 2000. pp. 674-676
Informe sobre la campaña realizada por los investigadores del Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras San-Feliu y Bas en el Banco Sahariano durante el mes de marzo de 1970
No full textInforme sobre la campaña realizada durante el mes de marzo de 1970 en el Banco Sahariano por los investigadores J.M. San Feliu y Carlos Bas del Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras (IIP-CSIC).-- 19 pagesDe antaño es conocida la importancia pesquera del banco sahariano,
Este elevado potencial pesquero se mantiene gracias a las especiales características oceanograficas que permiten la existencia de una alta capacidad de producción marina y consecuentemente posibilita una elevada explotación pesquera. [...] Merluccius merluccius, Merluccius senegalensis, espáridos, pulpo, cefalópodos, jibia, sepia, calamar, sepión [...]Peer reviewe
O doświadczeniu obcości języka w twórczości J.M. Coetzeego. Słowo wstępne
No full textThe present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek.The present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek
Étude hydrogéologique par prospection électrique du cône de déjection de l'Andlau (environs d'Andlau, Bas-Rhin)
No full textL'étude hydrogéologique du cône de déjection de l'Andlau a été effectuée par la méthode du sondage électrique. Les résultats ont montré que les alluvions présentaient des qualités hydrologiques médiocres. Un écorché géologique a permis de mettre en place un forage productif alimenté par la nappe des grès triasiques.Denozière P., Hirtz J.M., Astier J.L., Millot G., Simler L. Étude hydrogéologique par prospection électrique du cône de déjection de l'Andlau (environs d'Andlau, Bas-Rhin). In: Bulletin du Service de la carte géologique d'Alsace et de Lorraine, tome 14, n°2, 1961. pp. 27-37
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