Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture

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Author: Robert McC Netting

ISBN-10: 0804721025

ISBN-13: 9780804721028

Category: Agricultural Economics

“A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change.”—The Geographical Journal

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“A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change.”—The Geographical Journal

Tables and FiguresPrologue: An Ethnological Essay in Practical Reason11The Technology and Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices282The Farm-Family Household583Labor-Time Allocation1024Energy Inputs, Outputs, and Sustainable Systems1235Farm Size and Productivity1466Smallholder Property and Tenure1577Inequality, Stratification, and Polarization1898Chinese Smallholders2329Intensive Agriculture, Population Density, Markets, and the Smallholder Adaptation26110Peasant Farming and the Chayanov Model295Epilogue: Does the Smallholder Have a Future?320References Cited337Index379

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