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Anthony Shea Interview
MAJ Anthony Shea served in the Air Force from 1985-1994 as a security forces specialist, was an officer with the chief computer support section, wide area network program manager, internet protocol engineer, chief military telephone command and control, and Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies for Air Force ROTC, Virginia Military Institute. This interview covers his Air Force career from 1985 - 200
Men playing Lebanese musical instruments
Photograph shows Anthony R. Ferris, Sr., M. K. Hage, Sr., and William Shea with musical instruments
Anthony Lister in the studio of friends and fellow artists, Joseph Allen Shea and Paul Davies, Surry Hills, New South Wales, 31 March 2011 /
Title devised by cataloguer based on information supplied by photographer, see file NLA12/558.; Part of the collection: Portraits of prominent Australians, 2005-2012.; Artist Anthony Lister photographed in the Surry Hills studio of Joseph Allen Shea and Paul Davies before painting a mural on a nearby wall on 31 March 2011.--Information from photographer.; Mode of access: Online
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
Anthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
Anthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Determinants of Shea Nut Marketing Arrangements in Northern Uganda.
This study assessed factors influencing shea nut actors’ choices of shea nut marketing arrangements in northern Uganda. An understanding of these factors is vital in influencing the choice of the different marketing arrangements. Cross-sectional data was collected from a sample of 325 shea nut actors. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and a multinomial logit model. The shea nut actors in this study were composed of 78% collectors, 16% traders, and 7% processors. About 73% and 43% of shea collectors and traders, respectively, sold their shea nuts and/or products through spot markets, while, 45% of the processors sold their shea nuts and/or products through informal contracts. A formal contract was the least common marketing arrangement among all the actors. The probability of choosing each marketing arrangement was influenced by several factors including experience, education, income level, access to extension, training, access to credit, awareness of innovations in the shea value chain, awareness of value addition supporting institutions, main occupation (farming), distance to the market, access to information and means of transport used (head portage). Efforts to increase formal contract participation should focus on providing extensions and creating
awareness about institutions that support value addition. There is a need for a location and actor-specific approach in
promoting the different market arrangements in shea products marketing
Determinants of shea nut marketing arrangements in northern Uganda
Abstract This study assessed factors influencing shea nut actors’ choices of shea nut marketing arrangements in northern Uganda. An understanding of these factors is vital in influencing the choice of the different marketing arrangements. Cross-sectional data was collected from a sample of 325 shea nut actors. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit model. The shea nut actors in this study were composed of 78% collectors, 16% traders and 7% processors. About 73% and 43% of shea collectors and traders, respectively, sold their shea nuts and/or products through spot markets, while, 45% of the processors sold their shea nut and/or products through informal contracts. Formal contract was the least common marketing arrangement among all the actors. The probability of choosing each the marketing arrangement were influenced by several factors including experience, education, income level, access to extension, training, access to credit, awareness of innovations in the shea value chain, awareness of value addition supporting institutions, main occupation (farming), distance to the market, access to information and means of transport used (head portage). Efforts to increase formal contract participation should focus on providing extensions and creating awareness about institutions that support value addition. There is need for a location and actor specific approach in promoting the different market arrangements in shea products marketing
An Assessment of the Competitiveness of Shea Actors in the Shea Nut Value Chain of Northern Uganda
Shea nut is an economically important parkland tree species found in parts of northern and eastern Uganda. In northern Uganda, the shea nut value chain consists of collectors, traders, and processors. Whereas the collectors form the bulk of the actors in the chain, it is not clear whether the scale of operations of actors above the chain makes them less competitive. This study assessed the competitiveness of shea actors along the chain. Cross-sectional primary data was collected using a respondent-driven sampling approach. A total of 252 collectors, 51 traders, and 22 processors were included in the study. Results showed that the average market share of the collectors, traders, and collectors is 0.4%, 1.9%, and 4.5%, respectively. Using the concentration ratio (CR4) which measures the market share of the four largest players, results showed that for both collectors and traders, the CR4 was less than 40% (collectors =10%; traders=15%). This finding suggests that, individually, each collector and trader are too small to influence the outcome of the shea market transaction but can only do so collectively. However, for the processors, the CR4 was 65%, implying that for the processors, the 4 largest players control up to 65% of the market. This suggests an oligopolistic tendency among shea processors, with the few large processors able to individually influence both collectors and traders. These findings suggest the need to regulations to protect both the trader and the collectors from unfair competition that may come from the few processor
Economic empowerment among female shea actors: the case of Savelugu District, Ghana
The shea industry is a catalyst for the economic empowerment of women engaged in this sector. However, we do not know the extent to which women actors are economically empowered along this value chain, and the factors impeding their empowerment. Addressing this is crucial to developing policies in advancing the economic empowerment of female shea actors. This study aims to assess the extent to which the shea industry economically empowers female shea actors. We utilized a convergent mixed-methods approach, gathering quantitative data from 384 female shea actors (including producers, collectors, and marketers) and qualitative data from 12 experienced older women in the industry, making an overall sample of 396. The qualitative data underwent thematic analysis, while the quantitative data were subjected to the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test to compare the level of economic empowerment among the three groups of shea actors. We found significant differences among the three groups of shea actors (χ2 (2) = 75.266, p = 0.000). Collectors had a mean rank of 236.60, marketers had a mean rank of 131.24, and producers had a mean rank of 205.31; showing economic empowerment varies among the shea actors. However, they face challenges of inaccessibility to land, finance, and markets, as well as inadequate storage facilities that affect their operations. We recommend that the shea actors join or form groups to increase their access to loans, and control over prices, while development agents (both statutory and non-statutory) must improve access to lands, finance, and storage facilities
Letter from Anthony Brummelkamp to Mrs. G. Groen van Prinsterer
In a letter to Mrs. G. Groen van Prinsterer from Rev. Anthony Brummelkamp, the author is clearing up some statements of Rev. Budding and chiding Rev. Hendrik Scholte for having an arrogant and sharp tone. A foonote to the letter mentions the school operated by Rev. Brummelkamp and Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte in Arnhem.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1193/thumbnail.jp
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