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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of real-time working resistance of support in fully-mechanized working face of medium-thickness coal seam

open access: yesGong-kuang zidonghua, 2016
In order to study evolution of real-time working resistance of hydraulic support with roof breaking in fully-mechanized working face of medium-thickness coal seam, a mechanical model of main roof was established based on elastic foundation beam, and law of main roof movement was analyzed.
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Women, Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic: Evidence from the Manufacturing Censuses [PDF]

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The first half of the nineteenth century was a critical juncture regarding the emergence of female participation in the market economy, the increase in the wage of females relative to that of adult males, and the evolution of large scale firms in both ...
Claudia Goldin, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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