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"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the world’s largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Systematically comparing their stories in order to explain their paths, differences, ruptures and changes, the author reveals that the emergence of the two nations as leading producers of GM crops cannot be explained by technological superiority of biotechnology; rather, their trajectories are the results of political struggles surrounding agrarian development, in which social movements and the rural poor contested the advancement of biotechnologically-based agrarian models, but have been silenced, ignored, or demobilized by a network of actors in favo...
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Espacios y desarrollo rurales. Una visión múltiple desde Europa y Lationamérica es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo, llevado a cabo por trece profesores de diferentes universidades españolas y latinoamericanas. El germn del mismo ha sido la puesta en marcha de una Red Temática Docente, financiada por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacinoal, de título Desarrollo Rural: Aspectos Ambientales y Territoriales. Las universidades partícipes han sido seis. Tres españolas: la de Santiago de Compostela, con una función de coordinacora, la de León y la de Huelva. Tres latinoamericanas. la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (Colombia), la Federal de Bahía (Brasil) y l...