Social Ecology & Agrarian Classes
Author: Syed Nadeem Fatmi
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Author: Henry Bernstein
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1565493567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.
Agroecology
Author: Peter Rosset
Publisher: Practical Action
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781853399947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies
Author: Akram-Lodhi, A. H.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 1788972465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation.
No Condition Is Permanent
Author: Sara S. Berry
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1993-09-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0299139344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers’ uses of income, Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete “successes” and “failures.” No Condition Is Permanent enriches the discussion of agrarian development by showing how multidisciplinary studies of local agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa’s recent economic crises.
Social Ecology State of the Art and Future Prospects
Author: Johanna Kramm
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2018-07-06
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 303842546X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Social Ecology. State of the Art and Future Prospects" that was published in Sustainability
Creating an Ecological Society
Author: Fred Magdoff
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2017-05-29
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1583676309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAiming squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Magdoff and Williams provide accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. They show that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. And possible--not one moment too soon--for society to change fundamentally and be brought into harmony with nature. --From publisher description.
Grassland Productivity and Ecosystem Services
Author: Gilles Lemaire
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1845938097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains 28 chapters with emphasis on the interactive nature of the relationships between the soil, plant, animal and environmental components of grassland systems, both natural and managed. It analyses the present knowledge and the future trends of research for combining the classical view of grasslands, as a resource for secure feeding of an increasing human population, with the more recent perspective of the contribution of grasslands to the mitigation of environmental impacts and biodiversity erosion as consequences of human society activities. The chapters are organized within five sections dealing with the different functions and the main ecosystem services expected from grasslands: (i) domestic herbivore feeding and animal production; (ii) the regulation of biogeochemical cycles and its consequences for the environment; (iii) dynamics of biodiversity hosted by grasslands; (iv) integration of grasslands within sustainable animal production systems; and (v) interactions of grassland areas with other land use systems at the landscape level.
Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras
Author: Kees Jansen
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
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Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies
Author: Ian Scoones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 1040013384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants. The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation — are affected by climate change, as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation, trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally, the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change, and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it, reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world. The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and, in particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters, the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.
