Peasant Economics Farm Households And Agrarian Development

Author : Frank Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521457118
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasant Economics written by Frank Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.

Author : Ellis Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasant Economics: Farm Households and Agrarian Development written by Ellis Frank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Harriss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100093361X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Development written by John Harriss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and arranged, and the editor has provided a general introduction and passages that link the papers, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts. The book provides a basis for the analysis of the processes that make rural societies and economies what they are and substantially determine the changes that take place within them. The papers help the reader to understand the nature of the phenomena with which rural development has to deal, and in doing so to begin to evaluate the interventions of agencies and planners.

Author : John Harriss
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Development written by John Harriss and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1982 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of agrarian change and rural development strategies; Structural analysis of agrarian change: capital and peasantry; Analyses or the peasant farm economy; Rural labour; The state and the peasantry.

Author : Doreen Warriner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136924051
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Peasant Farming written by Doreen Warriner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties. It shows an immense contrast between the well-capitalized commercial peasant farming of Western Europe and the poor subsistence farming of the remotest parts of Eastern Europe; and between these two extremes a wide range of variation in standards of living and farming efficiency.

Author : A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134064640
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasants and Globalization written by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social change in order to explore historical and contemporary processes of agrarian change and transformation and their consequent impact upon the livelihoods, poverty and well-being of those who live in the countryside. The book provides a critical analysis of the extent to which rural development trajectories have in the past and are now promoting a change in rural production processes, the accumulation of rural resources, and shifts in rural politics, and the implications of such trajectories for peasant livelihoods and rural workers in an era of globalization. Peasants and Globalization thus explores continuity and change in the debate on the ‘agrarian question’, from its early formulation in the late 19th century to the continuing relevance it has in our times, including chapters from Terence Byres, Amiya Bagchi, Ellen Wood, Farshad Araghi, Henry Bernstein, Saturnino M Borras, Ray Kiely, Michael Watts and Philip McMichael. Collectively, the contributors argue that neoliberal social and economic policies have, in deepening the market imperative governing the contemporary world food system, not only failed to tackle to underlying causes of rural poverty but have indeed deepened the agrarian crisis currently confronting the livelihoods of peasant farmers and rural workers. This crisis does not go unchallenged, as rural social movements have emerged, for the first time, on a transnational scale. Confronting development policies that are unable to reduce, let alone eliminate, rural poverty, transnational rural social movements are attempting to construct a more just future for the world’s farmers and rural workers.

Author : Christina H. Gladwin
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819173867
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Farm written by Christina H. Gladwin and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At no time in this century has there been such global uncertainty concerning the future stability of food and farm. While many Third World countries are unable to produce an adequate food supply for their inhabitants, the future of family farms in industrialized countries is jeopardized because food is overly abundant there.

Author : Boguslaw Galeski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429712618
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Farming In Europe And America written by Boguslaw Galeski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Colman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521336642
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Agricultural Economics written by David Colman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook addresses the main economic principles required by agricultural economists involved in rural development. The principles of 'micro-economics' or 'price-theory' are of relevance to economists everywhere, but this book reinforces the message of their relevance for rural development by explaining the theory in the specific context of the agricultural and food sectors of developing countries. Hypothetical and actual empirical illustrations drawn almost exclusively from such countries distinguish this book from other economic principles texts that draw their examples almost invariably from industrialised countries, and also from books more oriented to the issue of rural development. The first half of the book deals with the underlying principles of production, supply and demand. These are essential tools for the study and management of the agricultural sector and food markets. In the second half, supply and demand are bought together into a chapter of equilibrium and exchange. This is followed by chapters on trade and the theory of economic welfare. In the final chapter it is shown that much of the material in the earlier chapters can be combined by agricultural economists into a system for analysing and comparing the effects of alternative agricultural policies. The ability of agricultural economics to provide a consistent framework for the analysis of policy problems thus enables it to make a key contribution to rural development.

Author : Wallace C. Olsen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801426773
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology written by Wallace C. Olsen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.