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ItemCuba under Raul Castro: Assessing the Reforms(Wiley, 2018-01-01)
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ItemState-Society Trust in Sino-Brazilian Agriculture(Springer, 2015)As Chinese cities edge toward projections of one billion residents by 2025, they are generating unprecedented demand for food. Ambitions to meet this demand with domestic production are still far from reality, prompting Chinese agriculture enterprises to buy and invest overseas. This article examines the consequences for Brazil, which in 2013 provided 45 % of China’s soybean imports. It finds that diverging traditions of state-society trust have provoked Brazilian uncertainties about the objectives and management practices of investing Chinese actors. It concludes that successful “South-South” relations between China and Brazil will require fresh approaches to trust between state and society that break with previous development theory and practice.
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ItemLa Franja y la Ruta: gestión y desafíos en Sudamérica y Australia(AsiaLink - America Economia, 2019-08-06)
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ItemTourism and the Many Faces of Havana’s Chinatown(Duke University Press, 2019)The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians.
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ItemChinese Investment in Australia: Sustainable Diversification?(Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2019-07-01)
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ItemTrust: A Critical Ingredient for Urban Food Security(China Architecture and Building Press, 2018)
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ItemBeanstalks and Trust in Chinese and Brazilian Food Systems(University of Texas Press, 2018-07-01)The growth of Chinese cities to an expected 860 million people has generated unprecedented demand for Latin American agriculture products, but the intensification of industrial farming has provoked shortages of safe and healthy food in both regions. For Brazil, the deficiencies result from the loss of rural livelihoods to export-oriented soy and cattle farming, resulting rural-urban migration, and the consequent destruction of peri-urban family farms as cities grow. For China, agricultural industrialization has involved greater reliance on chemical inputs and contamination with pollutants, provoking widespread public distrust in the safety of food. Through case studies from Beijing and Rio de Janeiro, the article examines efforts to address these concerns through localized urban food programs that build trust between producers, consumers, and governments. I call the protagonists behind these initiatives beanstalks, arguing that they represent a new variety of globally networked intermediary. Like the fabled beanstalk climbed by Jack, they link local realities to a wider universe of promise and peril.
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ItemChina and Cuba(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-04-27)This volume illustrates the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro.
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ItemFood Systems and the Role of Local Government(SUSTAIN: The Australian Food Network, 2017)
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ItemChina y Cuba. 170 años y mirando hacia el futuro(Clasco, 2017)
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