Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development
Author | : Clifton R. Wharton |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0202369358 |
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Author | : Clifton R. Wharton |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0202369358 |
Author | : Jr. Wharton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351487698 |
One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become commercial farmers, producing more and more for sale in the marketplace. Although subsistence farms occupy 40 percent of the worlds cultivated land and support half of mankind, facts about them and programs to increase their output are scattered. Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development provides a unique overview of these difficulties and their significance to economic development. It is the first book to subject subsistence agriculture to rigorous multi-disciplinary examination and to bring to light new theory and empirical evidence directed toward solving the problem.This volume contains original chapters by forty leading social scientists and agricultural specialists who summarize contemporary theory, fact, and policy on the problems of developing agriculture from subsistence to a commercial basis. Each contributor speaks from one or more of the relevant standpoints of economics, sociology, agronomy, political science, anthropology, and social psychology. There emerges a clear, meaningful picture of the subsistence farmer and the problems involved in changing his attitudes, methods of production, and economic and social environment.Broad in scope, documented with pertinent case studies, and far-reaching in its guidelines for future research and policy, this work should be read by all concerned with increasing food production and with economic development. This is an area of special concern in the uses of food products as the basis for new energy resources - an issue of increasing importance in the advancing use of ethanol as a fuel drawn from corn products.
Author | : Joachim Von Braun |
Publisher | : International Food Policy Research Insitute |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.
Author | : Friedhelm Goeltenboth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783823611578 |
Author | : Friedhelm Goeltenboth |
Publisher | : University of Papua New Guinea Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9789980945761 |
Author | : Benson, Todd |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0896294056 |
Author | : Tony Waters |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780739107683 |
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
Author | : Clifton R. Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781315130408 |
"One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become commercial farmers, producing more and more for sale in the marketplace. Although subsistence farms occupy 40 percent of the worlds cultivated land and support half of mankind, facts about them and programs to increase their output are scattered. Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development provides a unique overview of these difficulties and their significance to economic development. It is the first book to subject subsistence agriculture to rigorous multi-disciplinary examination and to bring to light new theory and empirical evidence directed toward solving the problem.This volume contains original chapters by forty leading social scientists and agricultural specialists who summarize contemporary theory, fact, and policy on the problems of developing agriculture from subsistence to a commercial basis. Each contributor speaks from one or more of the relevant standpoints of economics, sociology, agronomy, political science, anthropology, and social psychology. There emerges a clear, meaningful picture of the subsistence farmer and the problems involved in changing his attitudes, methods of production, and economic and social environment.Broad in scope, documented with pertinent case studies, and far-reaching in its guidelines for future research and policy, this work should be read by all concerned with increasing food production and with economic development. This is an area of special concern in the uses of food products as the basis for new energy resources - an issue of increasing importance in the advancing use of ethanol as a fuel drawn from corn products."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Leigh Brownhill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2016-01-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1317596587 |
Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and multi-scalar. The gendered resilience framework, illustrated here with detailed case studies from semi-arid Kenya, is shown to be suitable for use in analysis in other geographic regions and across disciplines. The book examines the importance of gender equity to the strengthening of socio-ecological resilience. Case studies reflect multidisciplinary perspectives and focus on a range of issues, from microfinance to informal seed systems. The book’s gender perspective also incorporates consideration of age or generational relations and cultural dimensions in order to embrace the complexity of existing socio-economic realities in rural farming communities. The issue of succession of farmland has become a general concern, both to farmers and to researchers focused on building resilient farming systems. Building resilience here is shown to involve strengthening households’ and communities’ overall livelihood capabilities in the face of ongoing climate change, global market volatility and political instability.