Peasants And The Art Of Farming

Author : Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 1853398772

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Peasants and the Art of Farming by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Pdf

Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto focuses on the structure and dynamics of peasant farms and the historically highly variable relations that govern the processes of labour and production within peasant farms. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg argues that peasant agriculture can play an important, if not central, role in augmenting food production and creating sustainability. However, peasants today, as in the past, are materially neglected. By building on the pioneering work of Chayanov, this book seeks to address this neglect and to show how important peasants are in the ongoing struggles for food, food sustainability and food sovereignty. Full Text - Short description/annotation (Text)

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781603588003

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Farming for the Long Haul by Michael Foley Pdf

Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience

Author : Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher : Van Gorcum Limited
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9023238923

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The Virtual Farmer by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Pdf

The virtual farmer guides us towars a better understanding of the associated identities and practices that make up the agricultural sector. In this book the author developes a new and integrated view of agriculture and the countryside - a perspective that combines historical, economic, social, cultural and political dimensions with the technological. At the same time he attempts to identify new developments that might provide the bases for reestablishing public's confidence in the country's agriculture - a reconciliation that is urgently needed.

Author : Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136552939

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The New Peasantries by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Pdf

This book explores the position, role and significance of the peasantry in an era of globalization, particularly of the agrarian markets and food industries. It argues that the peasant condition is characterized by a struggle for autonomy that finds expression in the creation and development of a self-governed resource base and associated forms of sustainable development. In this respect the peasant mode of farming fundamentally differs from entrepreneurial and corporate ways of farming. The author demonstrates that the peasantries are far from waning. Instead, both industrialized and developing countries are witnessing complex and richly chequered processes of 're-peasantization', with peasants now numbering over a billion worldwide. The author's arguments are based on three longitudinal studies (in Peru, Italy and The Netherlands) that span 30 years and provide original and thought-provoking insights into rural and agrarian development processes. The book combines and integrates different bodies of literature: the rich traditions of peasant studies, development sociology, rural sociology, neo-institutional economics and the recently emerging debates on Empire.

Author : Michael Collinson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429696275

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Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture by Michael Collinson Pdf

First published in 1972, Farm Management in Peasant Agriculture remains the only detailed discussion of on-site research techniques for economists working on the development of small-holder agriculture in Africa. Part 1 describes the conditions of the agricultural sector within which the African peasant farmer must operate, and then outlines an approach to farm management tailored to those conditions. Part 2 sets out the research planning and investigation tasks implied by the approach. Survey techniques, as well as the value of a pre-survey for understanding general attributes of a farm system, are reviewed, and alternative data-collection methods are elaborated. Part 3 shows how research data can be used in planning content for extension programs. Dr. Collinson concludes with the details of a planning method that interpolates changes in farm practice into a model of the existing farm system and that projects a sequence of changes, representing a sequence of extension content, on the basis of farmer acceptability.

Author : Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351628501

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The New Peasantries by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Pdf

When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire and globalization was creating new forms of peasantry. This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a reorganization of chapters and several new chapters added. It includes a new chapter on China, based on the author's extensive fieldwork there, and much more information on Brazil. It integrates and critically reviews the many publications on peasants, peasantries and peasant modes of agricultural production published in recent years. The theoretical discussion is enriched with more attention to the seminal work of Chayanov. Greater attention is also paid to the construction of new markets – a theme that will remain a major issue in the coming decade. It combines and integrates different bodies of literature: the rich traditions of peasant studies, development and rural sociology, neo-institutional economics and debates on empire and globalization. The original book has been used in several international postgraduate courses. The experience and feedback thus obtained has been used to simplify the structure of the book and make it more accessible as a textbook for students.

Author : Del Sweeney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512807776

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Agriculture in the Middle Ages by Del Sweeney Pdf

Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.

Author : Chris Smaje
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603589024

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A Small Farm Future by Chris Smaje Pdf

A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon, locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically. Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints, A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies, effective self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth. Perfect for readers of both Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshing, new outlook on a way forward for society—and a vital resource for activists, students, policy makers, and anyone looking to enact change.

Author : Lev Timofeev
Publisher : Telos Press, Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCSC:32106007043943

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Soviet Peasants, Or, The Peasants' Art of Starving by Lev Timofeev Pdf

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860786

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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Author : Robert E. F. Smith
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521209129

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Peasant Farming in Muscovy by Robert E. F. Smith Pdf

This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farming account for Russian backwardness during this period. Part I classifies and describes the range of agrarian activities carried on in Muscovy - arable farming, hayfields, livestock, and gathering from the forest - and presents a model of a hypothetical farm unit; Part II examines three regions -Moscow, Toropets and Kazan - which stretch across central European Russia; and Part III provides a chapter on the relationship between peasant farming and the state.

Author : Craig Pearson,Judith Nasby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773578371

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The Cultivated Landscape by Craig Pearson,Judith Nasby Pdf

By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present. Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. The Cultivated Landscape ends with a discussion of the complex issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity between agriculture and our environment, and options for the future.

Author : Akram-Lodhi, A. H.,Dietz, Kristina,Engels, Bettina,McKay, Ben M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788972468

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Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies by Akram-Lodhi, A. H.,Dietz, Kristina,Engels, Bettina,McKay, Ben M. Pdf

Exploring 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.

Author : Dana James,Evan Bowness
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773635101

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Growing and Eating Sustainably by Dana James,Evan Bowness Pdf

The industrial food system, from production to consumption and waste, is a major contributor to environmental, social and economic problems. A few powerful multinational corporations have consolidated control of agricultural markets and wealth while many farmers struggle to make a living and millions of people go hungry every day. Consumer access to healthy and culturally appropriate food remains largely an option for only those who can afford it. Responding to these destructive practices, global agrarian movements are calling for a transition to agroecology. Agroecological farming follows ecological principles for growing food in a way that respects diverse sociocultural contexts, connects urban eaters and rural growers and attends to power dynamics. Growing and Eating Sustainably shines light on the process of agroecological transition by showcasing the experiences of growers and eaters in southern Brazil, a country where agrarian movements have long been at the forefront of pushing for more sustainable and just food systems. Through stories and photographs of people, landscapes, farms and farming practices, and urban spaces, this book communicates how to advance systems-level agroecological transitions by linking rural and urban areas and connecting diverse agroecological experiences.

Author : Tony Waters
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739107682

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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture by Tony Waters Pdf

The 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.