Impacto del algodón en surco estrecho sobre la problemática del empleo en el sector algodonero del sudoeste chaqueño

Desde hace seis años, se está incorporando una nueva forma de producir algodón, que recibe el nombre de `surco estrecho. Esta nueva forma de trabajo, a semejanza del término `siembra directa`, implica un ´paquete´de varias tecnologías interdependientes, que van mucho mas allá del acercamiento de distancia entre líneos. Luego de la introducción de la cosecha mecánica, en forma `irreversible`aunque no en el 100 por ciento de la superficie, el cultivo del algodón no podría haber resistido el embate de la soja, si no hubiese incorporado otros elementos que permitiesen mejorar sensiblemente sus márgenes económicos, los cuales buscan en lo esencial, llegar al momento de la cosecha, con un algodón apto para ser recolectado con cosechadoras 'stripper`, de marcado menor costo por sus sistemas operativos y origen nacional. Es así como llegamos a esta nueva campaña de algodón, con una fuerte apuesta al surco estrecho desde las instituciones privadas y estatales, incorporando saberes de hace treinta años, con otras de muy reciente data, con un importante reordenamiento en las tareas y funciones de las personas que trabajan en la actividad, algodonera. En este trabajo, intentaremos describir los cambios producidos en la cantidad de puestos de trabajo y en la calidad del mismo, debido a la adopción del surco estrecho, en la producción del algodón.-

Sector agroindustrial y transferencia de tecnología : el caso del arroz y el de la cebada cervecera

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Functional food production from the prymary sector : prospects and opportunities

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Reflexiones sobre la política agraria y sus consecuencias para el sector agropecuario en el período 1989 - 2008

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Diagnóstico del sector primario citrícola de Entre Ríos

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Formas de coordinación en el sector porcino Argentino

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The private sector in water in 2009

A critical survey of the impact on public water of water multinationals, local private companies, and water-consuming multinationals.

Thinking inside the box: the World Bank position on the private and public sector

An analysis of how the World Bank has maintained a position supportive of mutlinational strategies for privatisation of water. (Brief version).

Corporate policies in the EU energy sector

This report examines the corporate policies of the major European energy companies, including the major developments in 2008.

Leadership and management standards in the UK Lifelong Learning sector

Leadership and Management Standards in the UK Lifelong Learning Sector. Presentation on research findings on leadership and management in the LLS sector, in the context of UK government policy changes introducing the 2007 Principals' Qualifying Programme (PQP) delivered by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL)/Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS). Discusses the role of standards in leadership and management professional practice and development and sums up the history of development of standards in relation to the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Leadership and Management, based on the UK Management Standards Centre (MSC) Institute for Leadership and Management Standards. Discusses the Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) Benchmark Role Specification for Principals in FE, Sixth Form and Specialist Colleges and the fact that the LSIS PQP has adopted those as part of its programme for Principal development. In the context of the implementation of standards for leadership and management, discusses the importance of values-based and research-informed leadership and the development of trust in lifelong learning sector institutions, given the multiple challenges facing vocational education and training (VET) institutions and the relative lack of recognition and support for the difficult roles taken on by Principals and senior leaders.

Can evidence-based healthy housing interventions be put into practice in the UK's private housing sector?

The UK’s public health agenda has encouraged enhanced housing and health interventions. The private housing sector (privately rented and owner occupied) is the favoured and majority UK tenure, but is it seen as a primarily health promoting environment, or a commercial asset? There has been a growing interest in integrating health and housing policy in recent years. However, housing and public health fall under separate government departments and funding regimes. Partnership working has sought to overcome silo working and encourage evidence-based practice, yet is particularly challenging for interventions in the private housing sector, with an increased emphasis on ‘personal responsibility’ for conditions. Strategic public health frameworks are in place, but barriers remain and there is pressure for organisations to revert to core activities. An accessible, continually updated evidence base specific to private sector housing is recommended, to help estimate health gain arising from interventions to prioritise activities and address inequalities.

Trade credit linkages along the supply chain: evidence for the Italian textile sector

We examine the trade credit linkages among firms within a supply chain to reckon the effect of such linkages on the propagation of liquidity shocks from downstream to upstream firms. We choose a sample appropriate for this task, consisting of a large data set of Italian firms from the textile industry, a well known example of a comprehensive manufacturing cluster featuring a large number of small and specialized firms at each level of the supply chain. The results of the analysis indicate that the level of trade credit that firms provide to their suppliers is positively related to the level of trade credit granted to their clients: when the level of trade credit granted to clients divided by sales goes up by 1, the level of trade credit provided to suppliers divided by cost-of goods-sold goes up by an amount that varies between 0,22 and 0,52. Since all firms along the chain are linked by trade credit relationships, an increase in the level of trade credit granted by wholesalers generates a liquidity cascade throughout the chain. We designate the overall increase in the level of trade credit among all firms in the chain as a result of a unitary impulse in the level of trade credit granted by wholesalers as the multiplier effect of trade credit for the industry chain. We estimate such multiplier to vary between 1.28 and 2.04. We also investigate the effect of final demand on the level of trade credit sourced by firms at various levels of the chain and, in particular, whether such effect is amplified for firms further up in the chain as a result of liquidity propagation via trade credit linkages. We uncover evidence of such amplification when the links of liquidity transmission along the chain are individually modeled and estimated. An unitary increase in wholesalers’ sales is found to produce an effect on trade payables among firms at the top of the chain (i.e., Preparers and Spinners) that is more than twice as big as the corresponding effect among firms at the bottom of the chain (i.e., Wholesalers).

The illusions of competition in the water sector: a response to the OFWAT/Cave consultations on introducing competition in the water sector in England and Wales

The paper provides a critical review of the role of liberalisation and competition in the water sector, based on empirical evidence from the UK and internationally. The paper is submitted as evidence to the official reviews of competition in water sector in England and Wales.