Prospects for the agricultural sector in the Netherlands, Economic and technological explorations

The Dutch agricultural sector is greatly influenced by the global economy; the sector is very much focused on international trade. Every year, the agricultural sector generates an extensive positive export balance of over €20 billion (€23 billion in 2007). The proportion of agricultural products and food in total Dutch exports of goods and services is also fairly high (17%). A large proportion (around 70%) of the activities of the agro-complex is related to foreign sales, so there is heavy dependence on international trade

Get Out of That Chair: How Fat Professionals Fit in Student Affairs

In the authors’ experiences as fat, queer, people of color, they exist in a student affairs bubble that reminds them that their bodies are abject. They are forced to sort out when is it their sexualities, their skin, or their size that is the reasoning for their silence in higher education. They force themselves to ask, “when is it about just being fat?” while questioning if their fatness can be separated from their brownness and queerness. “Get Out Of That Chair: How Fat Professionals Fit in Student Affairs” creates a dialogue and discussion about how bodies are policed in the higher education and student affairs job search processes through performative writing. It demands that “normal” bodies get out the way to finally make it about fat people and seeks to exist freely regardless of the discomfort of others

'Houd bij korting rekening met ongelijke verdeling'

Het LEI analyseerde de huidige verdeling van het GLB-budget over de lidstaten, en bespreekt opties voor de verdeling in de toekomst. Als na 2013 gekort wordt op het GLB-budget, zou er rekening gehouden moeten worden met wat lidstaten krijgen voor directe inkomenstoeslagen en plattelandsbeleid. In de politieke onderhandelingen speelt het totale saldo van ontvangsten en afdrachten een belangrijke rol

Stoomcursus Europees beleid

Mensen meer laten begrijpen van de Europese Unie. Dat willen de auteurs van het boek EU-beleid voor landbouw, voedsel en groen. "Er is veel onbegrip over de EU", zegt Huib Silvis, één van de samenstellers, "maar we kunnen niet zonder. Zaken als de voedselvoorziening, milieu en natuur ontstijgen nou eenmaal het nationale niveau

Alternative instruments for the CAP?

With parallel negotiations taking place on enlargement of the EU and a new WTO agreement, EU's Common Agricultural Policy is facing further reforms. This report addresses the issue of whether any alternatives can be found for the instruments of this policy, and looks at decoupled payments, a net income stabilisation fund, risk insurance programmes and export credits. It is concluded that the policy instruments in question are directed at widely varying objectives. They could prove to be a useful supplement to the existing instruments. In general, however, they do not (yet) present satisfactory alternatives for the current EU agricultural polic

Landbouw in 2020: duurzamer én grootschaliger

Grootschaliger en duurzamer. Dat zijn de belangrijkste trends in de agrosector de komende tien jaar, voorziet het LEI. Het aantal agrarische bedrijven blijft dalen, maar ze worden groter en gaan intensiever produceren, en de productie zal mede onder invloed van het overheidsbeleid duurzamer moeten. De nieuwe kennis over efficiënter en duurzamer produceren kan een prima exportproduct worde

Hardware as a service - enabling dynamic, user-level bare metal provisioning of pools of data center resources.

We describe a “Hardware as a Service (HaaS)” tool for isolating pools of compute, storage and networking resources. The goal of HaaS is to enable dynamic and flexible, user-level provisioning of pools of resources at the so-called “bare-metal” layer. It allows experimental or untrusted services to co-exist alongside trusted services. By functioning only as a resource isolation system, users are free to choose between different system scheduling and provisioning systems and to manage isolated resources as they see fit. We describe key HaaS use cases and features. We show how HaaS can provide a valuable, and somehwat overlooked, layer in the software architecture of modern data center management. Documentation and source code for HaaS software are available at: https://github.com/CCI-MOC/haasPartial support for this work was provided by the MassTech Collaborative Research Matching Grant Program, National Science Foundation award #1347525 and several commercial partners of the Mass Open Cloud who may be found at http://www.massopencloud.org.http://www.ieee-hpec.org/2014/CD/index_htm_files/FinalPapers/116.pd