Comparative Farming Systems
Language: English
Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1987
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- Title
- Comparative Farming Systems
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 089862780X
- ISBN 13
- 9780898627800
- Item weight
- 1.753 pounds
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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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