Technology And Social Change In Agriculture

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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Social Change in Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Arises Out Of A Seminar Organized By All India Kissan Sabha - Contains 15 Papers Which Seek To Analyse And Assess The Social Changes Brought About By New Technology In The Arena Of Agriculture. Eminent Persons Participated In The Seminar, The Papers Relate To Technological Changes - Right To Work, Land Reforms - Commercialization & Agriculture Among Other Subjects. Without Dust Jacket.

Author : Stephen Sherwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315440067
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food, Agriculture and Social Change written by Stephen Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in homes and on the streets. Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, this book explores how development and social change in food and agriculture are fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable. In viewing development in food as a socio-political-material experience, the authors find new objects, intersubjectivities and associations. These reveal a multiplicity of processes, effects and affects largely absent in current academic literature and public policy debates. In their attention to the contingency and creativity found in households, neighbourhoods and social networks, as well as at the borders of human–nonhuman experience, the book explores how people diversely meet their food needs and passions while confronting the region’s most pressing social, health and environmental concerns.

Author : Gene F Summers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314111
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology And Social Change In Rural Areas written by Gene F Summers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility of nuclear war, the failure of the Green Revolution, the capabilities of genetic engineering, and other actual and potential effects of technological innovations have created demands for a more humane application of technology. Addressing this issue, Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas is a clear assessment of the current state of affairs. The book begins with a discussion of the changing paradigms of technology adoption and diffusion, the dynamics of public resistance, and the question of social responsibility in an age of synthetic biology. In subsequent sections, the contributors assess the revolutionary effect of technology on agriculture worldwide and conclude that radically new public policies are essential; expose the transformations of rural life and communities that result from the localized effects of technology and its use as a weapon in world-system politics; and critically examine the appropriate technology movement. The essays are presented to honor Professor Eugene A. Wilkening for his many pioneering and lasting contributions to the study of technology and rural social change. The book includes an intellectual biography of Professor Wilkening written by his long-time colleague and friend, William H. Sewell.

Author : Gigi M Berardi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000305481
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Consequences And Challenges Of New Agricultural Technologies written by Gigi M Berardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although formal social impact assessment of changing technologies in U.S. agriculture is still in its infancy, scholars have been documenting the effects of new technology throughout the twentieth century. In this collection, Prcfessors Berardi and Geisler bring together historically relevant research and a carefully chosen cross section of contemporary work. Their review of the literature is followed by an evaluation of the effects of mechanization on labor and production, written in 1904, which provides a backdrop for papers from the 1940s and 1950s examining the mechanization of agriculture in the South, in the Midwest, and in rural areas in general. Subsequent chapters offer present-day insights on such topics as the socioeconomic consequences of automated vegetable and tobacco harvesting, center-pivot irrigation, and organic and no-till cultivation. The authors also look at compensation and adjustment programs for displaced labor, the relationship between technology and agribusiness growth, and the effectiveness of university programs that prepare students to perform social impact assessments in agriculture. The edited proceedings of a spirited roundtable discussion on new directions for the study of the social impacts of farm technology and the political economy of agriculture provide the thought-provoking conclusion to this overview of the field.

Author : Satyajit Majumdar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132220714
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Innovation for Social Change written by Satyajit Majumdar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tension exists between technologists and social thinkers because of the impact technology and innovation have on social values and norms, which is often viewed as damaging to the cultural fabric of a nation or society. Since the global business environment is the context in which implementation of technology and innovation takes place, it is widely accepted as the major reason for such conflicts. In this backdrop, this edited book integrates independent research from across the globe. It deals with the nature and significance of technology, innovation and social change as well as the relationships between them, and discusses the significance of social entrepreneurship from social innovation and technology perspectives. Research areas covered are related to the development and deployment of technology, innovation and knowledge in social change, capabilities of institutions, models, role of government and corporate social responsibility and community involvement. Multiple aspects of social change are discussed in the context of India, Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Nigeria and other African countries. But society does not silently accept technologically enforced changes; sometimes technology is seen as an enemy of inclusive growth and for many, economic development is an anti-thesis of social change. Selected case studies on sector-specific technologies, such as the use of genetically modified seeds in agriculture, which has impacted the market and society, are critically analyzed to develop insights into the adoption of technology and its impact. At the same time it examines policy related issues, without any bias in favor of, or against, a specific technology.

Author : J. Paul Leagans
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioral Change in Agriculture written by J. Paul Leagans and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of papers on concepts and strategies for behavioural change in agricultural development - includes discussions on political aspects, agricultural research and technology, agricultural extension, agricultural economics, administrative aspects, rural sociology, the role of social psychology and the social sciences, etc.

Author : Joseph J Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000002462
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transferring Food Production Technology To Developing Nations written by Joseph J Molnar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social, economic, and policy problems associated with introducing new agriculture and aquaculture technology to developing nations as a means for expanding food supplies and increasing well-being. The contributors examine three general facets of planning for technology transfer and consider methodologies that enable effective

Author : Mary E. Lassanyi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social, Structural and Technological Changes in Agriculture, 1977-85 written by Mary E. Lassanyi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Frederick Lionberger
Publisher : Iowa State Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption of New Ideas and Practices written by Herbert Frederick Lionberger and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications to educational programs, review of research studies.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004617833
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Farming and Technology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three planned volumes which deal with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th century. The focus of this first volume is Scandinavia, the British Isles, Northern Germany, the Low Countries and Northern France. The volume discusses methodological approaches and their limitations, the development of medieval agriculture in terms of the transmission of technological ideas, improvements in productivity, regional variations, social responses to agricultural technology, and those common trends that unite the Northwest European region. The volume integrates material derived from the great advances made in medieval archaeology and the historical study of landscapes during the past 30 years and has a supranational character. It will be of interest to all those working on the social, economic and political history of Northwest Europe in the medieval and early modern periods as well as to those undertaking research in the specific field of the history of technology.