Peasants Farmers And Scientists
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Peasants Farmers And Scientists
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Author : H.J.W. Mutsaers
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-09-04
Peasants Farmers And Scientists written by H.J.W. Mutsaers and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This is the story of tropical agricultural science and agricultural development in the 20th century, focusing on the African farmer and African farming methods. It describes successes as well as fads and failures, many based on the author’s first-hand observations during more than 40 years in tropical agronomy-related fields. Moving into the 21st century, the book explores the rise of computer modeling of crops and crop production.
Red Revolution Green Revolution
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Author : Sigrid Schmalzer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-01-20
Red Revolution Green Revolution written by Sigrid Schmalzer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-20 with Science categories.
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side. In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and “educated youth.” The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing increasing production over equitable distribution of food and labor have been felt as strongly in China as anywhere—and yet, as Schmalzer shows, Mao-era challenges to technocracy laid important groundwork for today’s sustainability and food justice movements. This history of “scientific farming” in China offers us a unique opportunity not only to explore the consequences of modern agricultural technologies but also to engage in a necessary rethinking of fundamental assumptions about science and society.
Farmers Scientists And Plant Breeding
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Author : David Arthur Cleveland
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Farmers Scientists And Plant Breeding written by David Arthur Cleveland and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Agricultural extension work categories.
The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding.
Agroecology
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Author : Peter Rosset
language : en
Publisher: Practical Action
Release Date : 2017
Agroecology written by Peter Rosset and has been published by Practical Action this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING categories.
Introduction : why agroecology? -- The scientific principles of agroecology -- The scientific evidence for agroecology : can it feed the world? -- Scaling up agroecology : social process and organization -- The politics of agroecology -- Conclusions : conform or transform?
Agroecology
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Author : Peter Rosset
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Agroecology written by Peter Rosset and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Science categories.
"Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems. After decades of being dismissed by mainstream institutions and defended in obscurity by grassroots movements and farmers, agroecology is suddenly in fashion. The UN Food and and Agriculture Organization, government ministries and even corporations are jumping on the bandwagon. But, are they pushing the same agroecology as developed by pioneering farmers and scientists and pushed for by peasant social movements, or are they seeking to co-opt the concept and give it different content? Rosset and Altieri, two of the world's leading agroecologists, outline the principles, history and currents of agroecological thought, the scientific evidence for agroecology, the social aspects of bringing agroecology to scale and the contemporary politics of agroecology."--
A V Chayanov On The Theory Of Peasant Economy
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Author : Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Chai︠a︡nov
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1986
A V Chayanov On The Theory Of Peasant Economy written by Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Chai︠a︡nov and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Business & Economics categories.
The work of A. V. Chayanov is today drawing more attention among Western scholars than ever before. Largely ignored in his native Russia because they differed from Marxist-Leninist theory, and neglected in the West for more than forty years, Chayanov's sophisticated theories were at last published in English in 1966. That trenchant is reprinted in this Wisconsin paperback edition, which includes a new introduction by the sociologist Teodor Shanin, of the University of Manchester, one of the world's leading Chayanov scholars. The Wisconsin edition will be essential reading for political scientists, anthropologists, and all whose interests include peasant studies, Third World development, and women's studies. "The past two decades have seen the emergence of a whole new field called 'peasant studies' and, along with those of Karl Marx, Chayanov's ideas have been central to its development. . . . The publishers are to be commended for re-issuing the book with both old and new introductions and making it available as an affordable paperback for students. The work is a classic."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Research For Peasant Farmers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Research For Peasant Farmers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Rural Communities Under Stress
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Author : Jonathan Barker
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1989
Rural Communities Under Stress written by Jonathan Barker and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
African Society Today: Peasant farmers and the state in Africa: Disaster in rural sub-Saharan Africa has become a regular, almost annual event in recent years. In 1985 it was estimated that 10 million Africans left their homes and fields because they were unable to support themselves and that an additional 20 million were reported to be at risk of debilitating hunger.
Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture
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Author : Michael Collinson
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-03-04
Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture written by Michael Collinson and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with Science categories.
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.
China S Agrarian Transition
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Author : René Trappel
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-12-18
China S Agrarian Transition written by René Trappel and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-18 with History categories.
More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return to smallholding in the People’s Republic of China. Today, agriculture in China is changing again. In many villages smallholder farming is giving way to large agricultural enterprises. This book explores this latest transformation of Chinese agriculture. It traces how the peasantry’s frustration with the farming conditions, the priorities of national and local political agents and the changes in the management of collective land since the return to family-based farming have paved the way for a unique Chinese agrarian transition. The argument is based on careful analysis of agricultural politics since the early 1980s and data gathered in three field trips to Shandong, Sichuan, and Guizhou Provinces between 2008 and 2010. The findings highlight the importance of institutional path-dependencies and strategic government intervention (or its absence) for economic transformation. China’s Agrarian Transition is one of the first comprehensive accounts of the latest developments in agriculture in the People’s Republic and will provide a stimulating read for political scientists, sociologists, economists, and experts on China interested in the ongoing transformation of China’s countryside.