Comparative Farming Systems
Language: English
Published by Guilford Publications, Incorporated, 1987
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pp. xiv + 428, Maps, Index.
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- Title
- Comparative Farming Systems
- Publisher
- Guilford Publications, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1987
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- Hardcover
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- English
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Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, this volume offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture. The 12 farming systems explored here encompass the broad array of environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions in which agriculture exists--from Amazonian swidden to Hungarian cooperative farms. B.L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush have provided a three-part classification of the systems based on output intensity, technology employed, and production goals. The contributors bring to their case studies the perspectives of anthropology, economics, geography, and rural sociology. Farming Systems will be a valuable reference work on individual farming systems, a rich source of comparative data for researchers, and a text for advanced courses in farming systems and world agriculture.
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I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Purpose, Classification, and Organization, Turner & Brush.
2. Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change, Brush & Turner. II. PALEOTECHNIC AND CONSUMPTION-ORIENTED SYSTEMS.
3. Amazonia Swidden, Beckerman.
4. The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Peasant Economy of Yucatan, Ewell & Merrill-Sands.
5. Swiddeners in Transition: Lua Farmers in Northwestern Thailand, Kunstadter.
6. Upland and Swamp Rice Farming in Sierra Leone: An Evolutionary Transition, Richards.
III. MIXED TECHNIC AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.
7. Agricultural Ecology in the Mid-Hills of Nepal, Ashby & Pachico.
8. Irrigation, Mechanized Agriculture, and the State: The Case of an Upper Egyptian Village, Hopkins.
9. Intensification in Peasant Farming, Punjab in the Green Revolution, Leaf.
10. Intensive Paddy and Garden Agriculture in Bangladesh: Change in Shyampur Village, Ali.
IV. NEOTECHNIC AND COMMODITY-ORIENTED SYSTEMS.
11. Dryland Wheat Farming in the Central Great Plains: Sedgewick County Northeast Colorado, Spaeth.
12. Growing against the Grain: Rice Farming in the Sacramento Valley, Pudup & Watts.
13. Mechanized Cooperative System in Southeastern Hungary, Karacsony, Szathmary, & Szucs.
14. High Tech Farming Systems in Champagne, France: Change in Response to Agribusiness and International Controls, Dorel.
1. Purpose, Classification, and Organization, Turner & Brush.
2. Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change, Brush & Turner. II. PALEOTECHNIC AND CONSUMPTION-ORIENTED SYSTEMS.
3. Amazonia Swidden, Beckerman.
4. The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Peasant Economy of Yucatan, Ewell & Merrill-Sands.
5. Swiddeners in Transition: Lua Farmers in Northwestern Thailand, Kunstadter.
6. Upland and Swamp Rice Farming in Sierra Leone: An Evolutionary Transition, Richards.
III. MIXED TECHNIC AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS.
7. Agricultural Ecology in the Mid-Hills of Nepal, Ashby & Pachico.
8. Irrigation, Mechanized Agriculture, and the State: The Case of an Upper Egyptian Village, Hopkins.
9. Intensification in Peasant Farming, Punjab in the Green Revolution, Leaf.
10. Intensive Paddy and Garden Agriculture in Bangladesh: Change in Shyampur Village, Ali.
IV. NEOTECHNIC AND COMMODITY-ORIENTED SYSTEMS.
11. Dryland Wheat Farming in the Central Great Plains: Sedgewick County Northeast Colorado, Spaeth.
12. Growing against the Grain: Rice Farming in the Sacramento Valley, Pudup & Watts.
13. Mechanized Cooperative System in Southeastern Hungary, Karacsony, Szathmary, & Szucs.
14. High Tech Farming Systems in Champagne, France: Change in Response to Agribusiness and International Controls, Dorel.
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