Yearbook 2010 Jamaica. According to COUNTRYAAH, Jamaica has a population of 2.935 million (2018). Violent clashes broke out in Kingston in May between security forces and supporters of drug king Christopher “Dudus” Coke. Over 70 people were killed during four days of fighting, including three soldiers. The violence erupted since the authorities issued an arrest…
Category: North America
STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE
The US agricultural economy has shown considerable regional and structural dynamics over the past few decades. The focus of cattle fattening was originally on small and medium-sized farms in the former Corn Belt. The number of livestock per farm was relatively low there. The feed required for fattening was produced on our own land. A completely different production model was pursued in the west of the Great Plains with the establishment of feedlots. In the meantime, the number of feedlots has decreased significantly overall, at the same time the size structure has shifted in favor of very large units and the spatial focus has shifted to the states of the southern plains.
Various innovations were decisive for this development. Automatic feeding systems and vaccines, which considerably reduced the risk of epidemics in large animal populations, favored keeping large herds. Large-scale irrigation farming made it possible to produce animal feed on a large scale in the southern states of the Great Plains. The practical implementation of these innovations was only possible in large companies with efficient management due to the capital required. The capital requirement was met by industrialists and freelancers who were interested in investing in the agricultural sector through tax regulations.
Since larger fattening farms can better meet the year-round demand for a constant number of animals on the part of the slaughterhouses and the necessary investments in large plants are more likely to pay off, increasingly extensive feedlots have emerged – also through takeovers and mergers. They were mainly built in the western and southwestern parts of the country. There was sufficient space available there, and due to the lower settlement density there were fewer requirements for environmental protection.
The Great Plains extend as a strip up to 500 kilometers wide east of the Rocky Mountains. They are about 5.5 times the size of Germany and one of the central agricultural areas in the USA. The focus is on the cultivation of maize, soy, wheat and millet as well as cattle breeding. When it comes to the production of corn, soybeans and beef, the USA occupies a leading position worldwide.
The map shows the spatial structures of land use in the Great Plains in connection with natural vegetation. Their distribution is determined by the amount of precipitation decreasing from east to west. A zonal sequence in crop cultivation running from east to west is therefore clearly recognizable. For more information about the continent of North America, please check thesciencetutor.org.
Honduras 2010
Yearbook 2010 Honduras. On January 27, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, winner of the 2009 presidential election, was sworn in as Honduras new president. According to softwareleverage, one of his first measures was to issue a general amnesty for all those involved in the military coup on June 28, 2009, when the incumbent President Manuel Zelaya was…
Haiti 2010
Yearbook 2010 Haiti. According to COUNTRYAAH, Haiti has a population of 11.12 million (2018). The year turned dramatic for poor Haiti. On January 12, the country was hit by a powerful earthquake that claimed nearly a quarter of a million people’s lives. More than 300,000 were injured and more than one million became homeless. Eight…
Guatemala 2010
Yearbook 2010 Guatemala. During the year, as well as its closest neighbors, the country struggled with the growing violence and rising murder rates, in Guatemala nearly 50 murders per 100,000 residents. According to COUNTRYAAH, Guatemala has a population of 17.25 million (2018). The fight against crime was not made more effective by the fact that…
Grenada 2010
Yearbook 2010 Grenada. According to COUNTRYAAH, Grenada has a population of 111,454 (2018). Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Patrick Manning, signed an agreement in April on the delimitation of the sea between the two countries. The agreement, which came into force at the end of the month, would, according to…
Greenland 2010
Yearbook 2010 Greenland. The research reports on the melting Greenland ice sheet were numerous during the year. An American study in February showed that increasingly warmer seawater eats into the ice beneath the surface of the water and bursts from the Greenland ice cover. According to COUNTRYAAH, Greenland has a population of 56,025 (2018). However,…
El Salvador 2010
Yearbook 2010 El Salvador. According to COUNTRYAAH, El Salvador has a population of 6.421 million (2018). The power measurement between the government and organized crime continued during the year. In June, members of one of the largest crime leagues (“maras”) fired a bus on the outskirts of the capital, San Salvador, and set fire to…
Dominican Republic 2010
Yearbook 2010 Dominican Republic. According to COUNTRYAAH, Dominican Republic has a population of 10.63 million (2018). The ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) won a convincing victory in the congressional and municipal elections held on May 16. In the Senate, the party won all seats except one, which went to the main competitor, Partido…
Dominica 2010
Yearbook 2010 Dominica. According to COUNTRYAAH, Dominica has a population of 71,625 (2018). Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit presented his new government in early January, following the election victory the month before. The Labor Party (Dominica Labor Party) began a third term with a series of new ministerial names. Other ministers were given changed responsibilities. Both…
Cuba 2010
Yearbook 2010 Cuba. A dialogue between the Cuban government and dignitaries from the Catholic Church in Cuba on human rights began in May and led to somewhat improved conditions for Cuba’s imprisoned political dissidents. In July, it was announced that 52 prisoners would be released over the following months. The origin of the government’s new…
Costa Rica 2010
Yearbook 2010 Costa Rica. On February 7, for the fifth time in the history of Latin America, a woman was elected president. According to COUNTRYAAH, Costa Rica has a population of 4.999 million (2018). Laura Chinchilla of the ruling party PLN (Partido de Liberación Nacional) clearly won by 47 percent of the vote, twice as…
Canada 2010
Yearbook 2010 Canada. In February, a dispute about shrimp fishing arose between Canada and the Danish islands of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea accused the Greenlandic and Faroese fishermen of overfishing shrimp on international waters off Canada’s east coast. According to the Minister, fishermen do not follow the quotas set…
Belize 2010
Yearbook 2010 Belize. At the beginning of the year, the government of Belize, together with the governments of Guyana and Barbados, decided to recognize the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the country’s highest judicial and appellate court. The decision was in line with Belize’s general policy of expanding cooperation within the Caribbean (CARICOM), which…
Barbados 2010
Yearbook 2010 Barbados. At the turn of the year, Prime Minister David Thompson withdrew due to unidentified illness. He had previously told of stomach pains. Deputy Prime Minister Freundel Stuart took over as acting chief of government, and later announced that Thompson was being cared for in New York for pancreatic cancer. In October, he…
Bahamas 2010
Yearbook 2010 Bahamas. According to COUNTRYAAH, Bahamas has a population of 385,640 (2018). The oil spill that went on in the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months caused concern in the tourism-dependent Bahamas. Concern was high that oil that leaked after a wreck on an oil platform would float eastward during the hurricane season….
Antigua and Barbuda 2010
Yearbook 2010 Antigua and Barbuda. In June, according to softwareleverage, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) granted Antigua and Barbuda an emergency loan of close to USD 118 million over three years. The already strained financial situation in the country had become acute due to the global crisis. Fewer tourists and less money sent home from…
North America and Central America
List of North American countries and their capitals The following information is from AllCityCodes. Countries Capital Continent Canada Ottawa North America United States Washington DC North America Mexico Mexico City North America → More developed and less developed countries in North America The North America is formed by Canada, United States and Mexico. Undoubtedly, these…