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Smallholders, Householders

Name: Smallholders, Householders
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 04444381
Price: 33.87 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert McC Netting
ISBN: 9780804721028

Robert McC Netting

Language

English

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Libristo code: 04444381

Publishers Stanford University Press, September 1993

This timely and convincing book challenges the myth that only modern, large-scale, mechanized, scien... Full description

Libristo code: 04444381

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This timely and convincing book challenges the myth that only modern, large-scale, mechanized, scienti1c agriculture can provide the food needed for the world's rapidly growing population. It is a detailed and innovative analysis of the agricultural efficiency and conservation of resources practiced around the world by smallholders. Using dozens of ethnographic examples the author argues that smallholder farming, wherever it takes place, is a viable alternative to today's dominant ideal of industrial agriculture, with its dependence on fossil fuels, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. The author critiques prevailing theories of the evolution of agriculture and the political economy of 'peasants' that consign smallholders to the status of inef1cient and outmoded anachronisms with primitive technology, grueling labor, and poverty. The author predicts that wherever people are plentiful and land is scarce, the distinctive adaptation of the smallholder will persist and 1/4ourish.