Author: Robert Dale StevensPublisher: Iowa State Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Tradition and Dynamics in Small-farm Agriculture
Author: Robert Dale StevensPublisher: Iowa State Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Tradition and Dynamic in Small-farm Agriculture
Author: R. D. StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Traditional agriculture; Dynamic of small-farm agriculture; Accelerating production on small farms.
Agroecology & Small Farm Dev
Author: Susanna B. HechtPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The physical and social context of small farm agriculture. Small farm development approaches. Production systems. The dynamics of traditional agriculture: case studies.
The Economics of Agricultural Development
Author: George W. NortonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134710291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Persistent problems with poverty, rapid population growth and malnutrition in many developing countries are among the most serious issues facing the world today. This book examines the causes, severity and effects of these problems, as well as potential solutions. The authors consider the implications of globalization of goods, services and capital for agriculture, poverty and the environment; and identify linkages in the world food system, stressing how agricultural and economic situations in poor countries affect industrialized nations and vice versa. Focusing on the role that agriculture can play in improving economic and nutritional wellbeing and how that role might be enhanced, this book is essential reading.
Agricultural Economics Research
Author: The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
Author: James W. WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108882730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines how traditional farming practices interact with demographic processes such as childbearing, death, and family formation. It includes topics such as household nutrition, physiological work capacity, health and resistance to infectious diseases, as well as reproductive performance and mortality. The book argues that the farming household is the most informative scale at which to study the biodemography and physiological ecology of preindustrial, non-commercial agriculture. It offers a balanced appraisal of the farming system, considering its strengths and limitations, as well as the implications of viewing it as a 'demographic enterprise' rather than an economic one. A valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, natural resource management, agriculture and ecology.
The Small Farmer in Jamaican Agriculture, an Assessment of Constraints and Opportunities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Milkfish Production Dualism in the Philippines
Author: Kee-Chai ChongPublisher: WorldFish
ISBN: 9711022109
Category : Aquaculture
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Peasant Economics
Author: Frank EllisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521457118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.
Family Agriculture
Author: David G. FrancisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000868230
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Originally published in 1994, this book examines the importance of family agricultural systems in both the developed and the developing worlds. Throughout the world, and throughout history, the family unit has been at the heart of agricultural systems. Working together, families not only furnish their own needs, but form the basis for society itself: they provide the labour, population, resources and the market to maintain much of the world’s economic and social development. But the global race for financial prosperity, with its large-scale intensive farming techniques, is increasingly undermining the family’s role in food production and social cohesion. This book explores both traditional and modern farming techniques and looks at their different consequences for national agricultural resources and for rural societies. Finally, it suggests ways in which technology can be harnessed to meet the needs of the family rather than undermine it, in order to achieve a viable and sustainable agriculture for the future.