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Author : Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134122264
This book surveys the social conditions of family farming across the world and the conditions of its survival into the twenty-first century.
Author : Harold Brookfield,Helen Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134122257
Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses the manner in which family farmers have been able to operate with success in both developed and developing countries, using examples wherever these are illuminating. This book begins by reviewing theoretical arguments about agricultural structures, and defines family farming. This is followed by five vignettes about farming in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors analyse the conditions of access to land and water, labour, livestock, tools and seed and review marketing arrangements and how they have changed since 1900. A three-chapter review of evolving policies in the North Atlantic countries, in the communist states, and in the developing countries, leads to a discussion of the impact of neo-liberalism. New issues of the farmer as steward of the environment are explored, as well as modern ideas about de-agrarianization and a discussion of land reform, tracing the experience of Mexico and Brazil. In two final chapters the more positive approach of pluriactivity is discussed and followed by a review of organic farming as a principal modern innovation. New political organizations representing family farming are described and their demands are discussed with empathy, but in a sceptical manner. Family farming is an adaptable and resilient form of production organization, and these qualities have allowed it to survive. The future will be no easier than the past, yet family farming continues to flourish in most contexts. This book will be useful for researchers, students and lecturers interested in Development Studies, Rural Studies and Geography and Anthropology, as well as general readers who have an interest in farming.
Author : Harold Chillingworth Brookfield,Helen Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415414415
Author : Gregory McIsaac,William R. Edwards
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 0252021002
This timely collection provides a general overview and detailed discussion of social and technical issues related to moving toward a culture and practice of sustainable agriculture in the American Midwest. It develops the concept that because agriculture does not exist in isolation, sustainability must be understood within the context of the many dynamic natural and social systems characteristic of a particular region - from climate to culture. Scholars from diverse disciplines - ecology, geography, economics, agricultural engineering, anthropology, entomology, climatology - provide the historical and contemporary context for this vital discussion.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1772 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Family farms
ISBN : MINN:31951D00837510V
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Family farms
ISBN : MINN:31951D00275620G
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural credit
ISBN : LOC:00002976286
Author : Boguslaw Galeski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429712616
Much has happened since agricultural economists and rural sociologists met at the University of Chicago in 1946 to discuss family farming. The problems and issues related to the structure of agriculture have been intensified by current economic considerations, which promote the growth of larger-scale commercial farming operations and edge out many smaller farms owned, operated, and worked by families. In this book, contributors from eleven nations in Europe and North America provide a comparison of farm structure under different economic and political systems, including Poland as an example of a non-market economy. In addition to providing information on how local, state, and international policies have affected the agricultural enterprise, they look at the role of farmers' organizations in policy formulation and take note of changes in farm patterns and policies that have had an impact on farm production, off-farm work, and the welfare of farm families and rural communities.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Small business
ISBN : UIUC:30112102078653
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Land use
ISBN : MINN:30000010184640
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127330152
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3608361
Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000305616
The first decade of Soviet cultural life was marked by a pluralism unmatched in the subsequent history of the USSR. In many fields of art and science, Party and non-Party "proletarian" and "bourgeois" intellectuals worked side by side, vigorously debating questions of substance and method. In this first major study of a Soviet field of social science in the post-Revolution period, Dr. Solomon examines the controversy that divided social scientists studying the economy and society of the Soviet peasant during the 1920s. The intellectual disagreements in post-Revolution Soviet rural studies were exacerbated by social, political, and professional differences among the contending scholars. The infighting between the groups was bitter. Yet in contrast to recent studies of other Soviet professions in the 1920s, the author finds that in rural studies Marxists and non-Marxists had much in common. Her findings suggest that the coexistence of the "old" and the "new" in Soviet rural studies might have lasted for some time had not external political forces intervened in late 1928, acting as a pressure on the field and eventually causing its demise.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754078042813
Author : Granville Hicks
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0823223574
Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by spreading cities and suburbs. He eloquently tried to define the essential qualities of small town community life and to link them to the best features of American culture. The book sparked numerous articles and debates in a baby-boom America nervously on the move. Long out of print, this classic of cultural criticism speaks powerfully to a new generation seeking to reconnect with a sense of place in American life, both rural and urban. An unaffected, deeply felt portrait of one such place by one of the best American critics, it should find a new home as a vivid reminder of what we have lost-and what we might still be able to protect.
