69 research outputs found
Prospects for global food security: a critical appraisal of past projections and predictions
Full text linkDuring the last half century, a number of individuals and institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI, have engaged in projections of future food demand, supply, and related variables. In this brief, Alex McCalla and Cesar Revoredo compare projections with real-life outcomes. Projections forecast outcomes on the basis of certain underlying factors. If such forecasted outcomes are undesirable, changes may be made in the underlying factors so that the projections may not, in fact, come to pass. Many projections serve this precise goal. Therefore, the success of projections may not be that they match actual outcomes but that they avoid such outcomes by promoting action to change underlying variables. Unlike predictions, which are successful only if they match actual outcomes, projections that differ from actual outcomes may reflect either poor projection models or changes in underlying variables, possibly caused by the projections themselves.Food consumption., Food security.,
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE U.S. FRESH PRODUCE INDUSTRY
Full text linkCrop Production/Industries,
Trade Update Notes; Report of the Task Force on The Aggregate Measure of Support: Potential Use by GATT for Agriculture
Full text linkInternational Relations/Trade,
[Book reviews]
No full textReviews of Canadian Economic History, ed. M. H. Watkins and M. H. Grant, and Perspectives on Canadian Economic History (2nd edition), ed. D. McCalla and M. Huberman, and Farm, Factory and Fortune, ed. K. Inwoo
Conringia orientalis (Hare's-ear Mustard) : Hare's-ear Mustard
No full textClass: Dicotyledoneae
Family: Cruciferae
Genus: Conringia
Species: orientali
Applying the agent metaphor to learning content management systems and learning object repositories
No full textThis paper presents a systems approach to facilitate effective learning object acquisition through the use of communications, modeling, and the agent metaphor. By changing the emphasis that is usually placed on metadata creation and interpretation (which can be problematic) we instead focus on the pragmatics of end use data facilitated through agent negotiation
Calamintha vulgaris (Wild Basil) : Wild Basil
No full textClass: Dicotyledoneae
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Calamintha
Species: vulgari
Caribbean Report 06-07-1993
No full textHeadlines with anchor Debbie Ransome (00:33).1. The US based National Coalition for Haiti Refugees is not impressed by President Bill Clinton’s announcement to tighten the embargo against Port Au Prince. Jocelyn McCalla, Executive Director for the Coalition of Haitian Refugees in an interview with Debbie Ransome believes that Clinton’s decision had been based on domestic politics (00:34 -03:05).2. Forty-seven Haitian artists in Europe have used one hundred and five paintings in and exhibition Paris to bring about change regarding the de facto regime in Haiti. Artists Barbara Prezzo and Edouard Duval-Carrié both express their opinions on the potential impact of their political paintings in the exhibition - Leslie Geoff reports (03:06 - 05:56).3. CARICOM is considering inviting its overseas officers to key meetings to ensure that Heads of Government decisions are properly implemented abroad. Byron Blake, CARICOM Secretariat Director responsible for the environment and development explains why a stance was not taken against the code for the transport of nuclear waste (05:75 - 09:18).4. A Caribbean health promotion charter has been formulated for the region – for future review by Caribbean health ministers. Sir George Alleyne, Assistant Director of the PAHO stressed that the charter is not a medical plan nor a prescription to cure all the Caribbean’s health services ills. Ricky Singh, President of the Caribbean Association of Media Workers is not too confident about the implementation of the Charter. Clarence Charles, Medical Director of the University of Guyana also expressed his reservations about certain aspects of the charter – Sandra Baptiste reports (09:19 -12:07).5. In Belize, with general elections close at hand the perceived threat from Guatemala and the economy are seen as the key issues by the majority. David Price, Political Lecturer in Belize explains which campaign he thinks is using the Guatemalan issue more and his analysis of the political climate and issues – Debbie Ransome reports (12:08 -14:47)
The way to the Sabbath of rest, or, The soul's progress in the work of the new-birth /
No full text"Brief account of the author": p. 122-124."Reprinted from the edition of 1759"--T.p.Mode of access: Internet
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