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2011
This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by tracing the discursive means of their erasure.
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This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by tracing the discursive means of their erasure.
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Journal of Peasant Studies, 1995
In this review article, Robert Netting's book, Smallholders, Householders. Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive Sustainable Agriculture ‐ the product of a lifetime of study and fieldwork by an American anthropologist, schooled in cultural ecology ‐ is considered. The book, which is essentially about adaptations to population increase in different
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In this review article, Robert Netting's book, Smallholders, Householders. Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive Sustainable Agriculture ‐ the product of a lifetime of study and fieldwork by an American anthropologist, schooled in cultural ecology ‐ is considered. The book, which is essentially about adaptations to population increase in different
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Technology and Culture, 2006
Nearly absent from the current popular interest in food is a sense of the political and ecological implications of corporate control over agriculture and the countryside. In Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food, George Pyle expresses anger for the way that corporate agriculture and the United ...
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Nearly absent from the current popular interest in food is a sense of the political and ecological implications of corporate control over agriculture and the countryside. In Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food, George Pyle expresses anger for the way that corporate agriculture and the United ...
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Smallholder Vulnerability and Response to Drought
1988Previous sections have outlined the drought climatology of the Kirinyaga-Embu-Machakos area and the results of several agroclimatic models that indicate agricultural and livestock potentials in different climatic scenarios. Even using very simple models, it is clear that climate and weather are the primary variables in determining potential ...
Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T.
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The Circular Migration of Smallholders in Kenya
Journal of African Economies, 1996Circular migration is a central phenomenon in the lives of smallholders in East Africa. Many migration decisions are not individual decisions but rather household decisions in which the household allocates its labor force among activities to maximize household utility.
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Smallholder Farming and Smallholder Development in Tanzania
The Geographical Journal, 1969J. A. Hellen +4 more
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2014
Global food and agriculture systems face a series of inter-related challenges; to assure food security for a growing world population while supporting decent livelihoods and reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture. Agroecological approaches can address these challenges by contributing to a greener economy. Agroecological systems are diverse,
Scialabba, Nadia El Hage +2 more
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Global food and agriculture systems face a series of inter-related challenges; to assure food security for a growing world population while supporting decent livelihoods and reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture. Agroecological approaches can address these challenges by contributing to a greener economy. Agroecological systems are diverse,
Scialabba, Nadia El Hage +2 more
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The Smallholdings and Survival
1991Rubber was the first commercial crop to receive really widespread participation from small farmers in Malaya. Earlier products, such as coffee in the 1890s, had attracted some Malays on the west coast of the Peninsula, but the short life of the boom left them wary of dependence on the market.
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Climate change adaptation of smallholders on the Tibetan plateau under government interventions
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022Jianzhong Yan, Xinjun He
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