Subsistence And Economic Development

Author : Jr. Wharton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351487696

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Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development by Jr. Wharton Pdf

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.

Author : Clifton R. Wharton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202369358

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Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development by Clifton R. Wharton Pdf

Author : Clifton R. Wharton,Wharton, Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1315130408

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Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development by Clifton R. Wharton,Wharton, Jr Pdf

"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 : Ronald E. Seavoy
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0275967816

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Subsistence and Economic Development by Ronald E. Seavoy Pdf

Seavoy insists that development economics is a failed discipline because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference between subsistence and commercial social values. Seavoy demonstrates that commercial labor norms are essential for producing assured food surpluses in all crop years and an assured food surplus is essential for sustaining the development process. The commercialization of food production is a political process, as in the term political economy. If peasants have a choice, they will not voluntarily perform commercial labor norms. Central governments must overcome peasant resistance to performing commercial labor norms by various forms of coercion. The most historically effective coercions are deprivation of peasant control of land use by foreclosure and eviction for excessive subsistence debts. Landless peasants are forced to become supervised paid laborers. Coercion is most effective when it is linked to money rewards for peasants who voluntarily transform themselves into yeomen cultivators or farmers. These commercially motivated cultivators and storekeepers become the resident commercializing agents in peasant villages who administer the central government's coercive and inducement policies. Based on extensive examples and field observation, this book is designed for use in courses that explore problems of economic development. Scholars and government policy makers will find the analysis equally provocative.

Author : Colin Clark,Margaret R. Haswell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970-09-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781349153909

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The Economics of Subsistence Agriculture by Colin Clark,Margaret R. Haswell Pdf

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89097328801

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The Sociology of Subsistence by Michael Quinn Patton Pdf

Author : Clifton R. Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89042674960

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The Economic Meaning of "subsistence" by Clifton R. Wharton Pdf

Author : Alain Lefebvre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136806049

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Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan by Alain Lefebvre Pdf

International migration is favoured by the governments of many poorer countries despite often well-publicized abuses affecting individual migrant workers. Not only is local unemployment reduced but also it is expected that the migrants will learn new skills, with many even becoming entrepreneurs on their return home. Meantime they are seen as a source of foreign remittances, providing needed capital for economic development. Such is the attitude in Pakistan from where thousands of migrant workers leave every year for the Gulf states especially. An anthropological study approaching this issue from a local (village) level, this book focuses on two areas of the Punjab. Describing the historical passage of rural life from pre-colonial times to the present, it shows how the rural economy of the Punjab was not transformed by the green revolution - on the contrary, it is still a subsistence economy. The resulting poverty combined with Pakistan's labour-market policies forces many Punjabi men to seek work abroad, in turn bringing changes to the economic role of the women left behind. Remittances from abroad have brought further changes on the economic and social life of the villages but not, as expected, to bring economic development let alone capital or entrepreneurialism to the area.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000506729

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Subsistence Economy by Fouad Sabry Pdf

What is Subsistence Economy A subsistence economy is an economy directed to basic subsistence, the provision of food, clothing, shelter rather than to the market. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Subsistence economy Chapter 2: Society Chapter 3: Gift economy Chapter 4: Hunter-gatherer Chapter 5: Subsistence agriculture Chapter 6: Economic system Chapter 7: Pastoralism Chapter 8: Agrarian society Chapter 9: Surplus product Chapter 10: Pastoral farming Chapter 11: Adaptive strategies Chapter 12: Mumun pottery period Chapter 13: Economy Chapter 14: Nutritional anthropology Chapter 15: Spheres of exchange Chapter 16: Kwegu people Chapter 17: Peasant economics Chapter 18: Political economy in anthropology Chapter 19: Jeulmun pottery period Chapter 20: Subsistence pattern Chapter 21: Economy of Prehispanic Mexico (II) Answering the public top questions about subsistence economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of subsistence economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of subsistence economy.

Author : Hla Myint (U.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCAL:B4358403

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The Economics of the Developing Countries by Hla Myint (U.) Pdf

Development economics, development theory, economic theory, study of different types of developing countries at different stages of economic development - covers economic policy, population growth, poverty, dual economy, economic structure, agricultural market expansion, wage policy for mines and plantation workers, migrant workers, input output, banking, investments, trade, monetary policy, disguised unemployment and underemployment. References.

Author : Hla Myint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Economics of the Developing Countries by Hla Myint Pdf

Author : Fan, Shenggen,Brzeska, Joanna,Keyzer, Michiel,Halsema, Alex
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896295582

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From subsistence to profit by Fan, Shenggen,Brzeska, Joanna,Keyzer, Michiel,Halsema, Alex Pdf

This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges. Main Findings Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities in the agricultural sector, others should be supported in exiting agriculture and seeking nonfarm employment opportunities. For smallholder farmers with profit potential, their ability to be successful is hampered by such challenges as climate change, price shocks, limited financing options, and inadequate access to healthy and nutritious food. By overcoming these challenges, smallholders can move from subsistence to commercially oriented agricultural systems, increase their profits, and operate at an efficient scale—thereby helping to do their part in feeding the world’s hungry.

Author : Lord Peter Tamas Bauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400824649

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From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays by Lord Peter Tamas Bauer Pdf

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings have been quite astonishing." This collection of Bauer's essays reveals the full power and range of his thought as well as the central concern that underlies so much of his diverse work: the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. The papers here cover pressing and controversial issues, including the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the reputed correlation between poverty and population density, the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty, the often counterproductive results of foreign aid, and the effects of egalitarian policies on individual freedoms. Bauer addresses these and other matters with clarity, verve, and wit, combining his deep understanding of economic theory and methodology with keen insights into human nature. The book is a penetrating account of how to develop a prosperous economy alongside a free and fair society and a stimulating introduction to the work of a man who has done so much to shape our modern understanding of developing economies and of the relationship of economics to the other social sciences. "This selection of essays will give readers a wonderful opportunity to learn about the rich world of cognizance and analysis erected by one of the great architects of political economy. I feel privileged to be able to offer this letter of invitation."--From the introduction by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in economics

Author : Garth Massey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000313536

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Subsistence And Change by Garth Massey Pdf

Focusing 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 : Jr. Wharton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351487689

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Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development by Jr. Wharton Pdf

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.