Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development
Author: Clifton R. Wharton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0202369358
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Author: Clifton R. Wharton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0202369358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jr. Wharton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1351487698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne 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: Colin Clark
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1970-09-17
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1349153907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clifton R. Wharton
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781315130408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Francisco José León Tello
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 481
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joachim Von Braun
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Insitute
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubsistence 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: Garth Massey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1000313530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsistence agriculture and development goals. Based upon survey and ethnographic research carried out among the Rahanweyn, the study pays particular attention to economic activities, linking them with environmental factors as well as with history, culture, the division of labor and women's roles, family structure, demography, and herding and agriculture. How change can best be introduced into such a society is the central question of the book. The meaning of subsistence and its relationship to self-sufficiency and a survival threshold are examined within the context of an externally imposed market system. The implications of rapidly induced market involvement in a traditional society are looked at in light of data on a range of subsistence societies. The author argues for a redirection of development practices, making a case for the viability of a mixed agropastoral system that diverges little from the traditional subsistence patterns, and for peasant-centered development compatible with subsistence production, balancing national and international interests.
Author: Tony Waters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780739107683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Benson, Todd
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2021-05-24
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0896294056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dale Weldeau Jorgenson
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 170
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