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Author : Kusum Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608094862
Author : Kusum Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035605315
Monograph on the behaviour of farmers in the context of the green revolution and its impact on agricultural development in India - narrates interviews with agricultural workers as well as rich and poor farmers in bihar and punjab, outlining the psychological aspects and sociological aspects which oppose rationality in the adoption of new technologys, and indicates the agricultural policy to be followed to overcome them. Bibliography pp. 145 to 152, glossary, map and statistical tables.
Author : Amos Nadan
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674021355
Challenging the claim that Palestine's peasant economy progressed during the 1920s and 1930s, Amos Nadan skillfully integrates a wide variety of sources to demonstrate that the period was actually one of deterioration on both the macro (per capita) and micro levels. The economy would have most likely continued its downward spiral during the 1940s had it not been for the temporary prosperity that resulted from World War II. Nadan argues that this deterioration continued despite the British authorities' channeling of funds from the Jewish sector and the wealthier Arab sectors into projects for the Arab rural economy. The British were hoping that Palestine's peasants would not rebel if their economic conditions improved. These programs were, on the whole, defective because the British chose programs based on an assumption that the peasants were too ignorant to manage their farms wisely, instead of working with the peasants and their own institutions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134116317
Author : Natalia Gutkowski
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503637733
Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications. Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency. Through investigations of wetland drainage in Galilee, transformations in olive agriculture, sustainable agrarian development, and regulation of the shmita biblical commandment, the "year of release" for agricultural fields, this work highlights how Palestinian citizens' agriculture has become a site for the state to settle and mediate time conflicts to justify its existence. As Struggling for Time demonstrates, time politics will take on ever greater urgency as societies and governments plan for an uncertain future in our era of climate change.
Author : Coralie Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429728495
This is the first text to focus on the problems and processes involved in organizing, implementing, and managing programs and projects aimed at relieving poverty and underdevelopment in the Third World. During the 1970s there was a shift in development assistance programs toward a greater concern for equity and the basic needs of the poor. The auth
Author : Meghnad Desai,Susanne Hoeber Rudolph,Ashok Rudra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520053699
Economic policy analysis of the relationship between the political power of local government and productivity in the agricultural sector in South Asia - analyses the impact of social change on sugar cane agricultural production, as well as historical aspects of power structures in India; examines economic implications of local level power configurations, esp. As regards farm-level decision making; discusses determinants and varieties of rural mobilization. References, statistical tables.
Author : Marc R. Tool
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585296043
The volume appraises, refines, and extends the institutionalist's evolutionary theory of political economy in six different areas of inquiry: (a) the provision of a fresh and comparative overview of institutional economics in general; (b) the presentation and refinement of pragmatic methods of inquiry; (c) the exploration of extensions and clarifications of instrumental value theory; (d) the distillation of an emergent institutionalist theory of labor markets; (e) the explication of a culture-based theory of economic development; and (f) the formulation of an analytical design that provides direction for institutional policy making. Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy appears at an especially opportune time, when there is widespread and accumulating analytical dissatisfaction with received economic doctrine. The traditional neoclassical and Marxist views of how to explain, order, and operate a political economy are now in question throughout the world. Appeals are being made for more relevant and pragmatic, less doctrinaire and dogmatic, approaches to economic inquiry and problem solving. This volume provides fresh theoretical underpinnings for such problem solving efforts.
Author : Dr Tom Brass,Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317827351
Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.
Author : Marc Reed Tool,Warren J. Samuels
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412837782
This collection of articles taken from the Journal of Economic Issues offers both a fresh perspective and a persuasive diagnosis on economic methodology. It simultaneously presents institutional economists' approaches to economic inquiry and policy, as well as a running critique of conceptual flaw and inadequacies of the traditional orthodox neoclassical approach that dominates college curriculums and media.
Author : Jonathan Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136307461
How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘green revolutions’ in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers. This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the late nineteenth century through its fate under National Socialism. Harwood uses this historical case study in order to argue that peasant-friendly research has an important role to play in future Green Revolutions.
Author : Jeffrey Burds
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822974994
Examines how peasant migration—the movement of males to cities for wage labor—affected villages before the Bolshevik revolution. New Russian sources are utilized.
Author : Michael Lipton,Richard Longhurst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136891564
First published in 1989, this book deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third World, specifically ‘Modern Varieties’ (MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics and nutrition science, the authors seek to pinpoint what has been achieved, what has gone wrong and what needs to be done in future. Although the technical innovations of MVs mean more employment, cheaper food and less risk for small farmers, the reduction in crop diversity increases the risk of danger from pests and though MVs enlarge cereal stocks, many are too poor to afford them. The book concludes that technical breakthroughs alone won’t solve deep-rooted social problems and that only new policies and research priorities will increase the choices, assets and power of the rural poor.
Author : Elisabeth Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317911425
This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures vastly reduced poverty alleviation schemes, price supports for poor farmers, and opened India’s economy to the unpredictability of global financial fluctuations. During this same period, the All India Democratic Women’s Association, which directly opposed the ascendance of neoliberal economics and policies, as well as the simultaneous rise of violent casteism and anti-Muslim communalism, grew from roughly three million members to over ten million. Beginning in the late 1980s, AIDWA turned its attention to women’s lives in rural India. Using a method that began with activist research, the organization developed a sectoral analysis of groups of women who were hardest hit in the new neoliberal order, including Muslim women, and Dalit (oppressed caste) women. AIDWA developed what leaders called inter-sectoral organizing, that centered the demands of the most vulnerable women into the heart of its campaigns and its ideology for social change. Through long-term ethnographic research, predominantly in the northern state of Haryana and the southern state of Tamil Nadu, this book shows how a socialist women’s organization built its oppositional strength by organizing the women most marginalized by neoliberal policies and economics.
Author : Ahmed Munir,Andrew Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351759205
This title was first published in 2003. he public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization, claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan), this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing, the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery, focusing on participatory approaches, education theory and pluralism.
