Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation
Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation

Author: John W. Mellor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3319652591

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development. Listed as a Best Books of 2017: Economics by Financial Times.

Unequal Partners
Unequal Partners

Author: Thomas Balogh

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A little girl's experiences when her grandmother spends some time in a nursing home help her to have a better feeling about those helping places.

Cultivating Knowledge
Cultivating Knowledge

Author: Andrew Flachs

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0816539634

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.

The Agricultural Transformation
The Agricultural Transformation

Author: C. Peter Timmer

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Research paper, agricultural development, role in economic development, structural change in the agricultural sector - theoretical aspects, decision making, agricultural production production factors, farm households, agricultural technology issues, agricultural policies for speeding up modernization, etc. Graph, references, tables.

The Conditions of Agricultural Growth
The Conditions of Agricultural Growth

Author: Ester Boserup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1351484532

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results. It starts on firm ground rather than from abstract economic theory. Upon its initial appearance, it was heralded as "a small masterpiece, which economic historians should read--and not simply quote"--Giovanni Frederico, Economic History Services. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth remains a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development. In linking ethnography with economy, developmental studies reached new heights. Whereas "development" had been seen previously as the transformation of traditional communities by the introduction (or imposition) of new technologies, Ester Boserup argues that changes and improvements occur from within agricultural communities, and that improvements are governed not simply by external interference, but by those communities themselves Using extensive analyses of the costs and productivity of the main systems of traditional agriculture, Ester Boserup concludes that technical, economic, and social changes are unlikely to take place unless the community concerned is exposed to the pressure of population growth.

The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation
The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation

Author: Célestin Monga

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 0198793847

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Oxford Handbook provides a critical assessment of the history, patterns, and strategies of economic transformation. It deals with major themes including policy issues, illuminating country experiences, and important debates on the respective roles of the market and the state.

The Role of Productivity, Transportation Costs, and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation
The Role of Productivity, Transportation Costs, and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation

Author: Cem Karayalcin

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1484350057

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The process of economic development is characterized by substantial reallocations of resources across sectors. In this paper, we construct a multi-sector model in which there are barriers to the movement of labor from low-productivity traditional agriculture to modern sectors. With the barrier in place, we show that improvements in productivity in modern sectors (including agriculture) or reductions in transportation costs may lead to a rise in agricultural employment and through terms-oftrade effects may harm subsistence farmers if the traditional subsistence sector is larger than a critical level. This suggests that policy advice based on the earlier literature needs to be revised. Reducing barriers to mobility (through reductions in the cost of skill acquisition and institutional changes) and improving the productivity of subsistence farmers needs to precede policies designed to increase the productivity of modern sectors or decrease transportation costs.

Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

Author: Finn Tarp

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 019879696X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides in-depth evaluation of the development of rural life in Viet Nam over the past decade, combining a unique primary source of time-series panel data with the best micro-econometric analytical tools available.

Agricultural Revolution in England
Agricultural Revolution in England

Author: Mark Overton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-04-18

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521568593

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. It combines new evidence with recent findings from the specialist literature, to argue that the agricultural revolution took place in the century after 1750. Taking a broad view of agrarian change, the author begins with a description of sixteenth-century farming and an analysis of its regional structure. He then argues that the agricultural revolution consisted of two related transformations. The first was a transformation in output and productivity brought about by a complex set of changes in farming practice. The second was a transformation of the agrarian economy and society, including a series of related developments in marketing, landholding, field systems, property rights, enclosure and social relations. Written specifically for students, this book will be invaluable to anyone studying English economic and social history, or the history of agriculture.