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Dominant development discourse and policy are based on crucial misconceptions about peasants and their livelihoods. Peasants are viewed as inherently poor and hungry and their farming systems are considered inefficient, of low productivity, and sometimes even environmentally degrading....
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Peasants of the northeastern Pará cultivate cassava (manioc esculenta) using shifting cultivation. This paper discusses some factors in support of cassava production, even though it has some negative environmental impacts. These factors are the importance of cassava in the region's history,...
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-maximizing behaviour by rural people – not just peasant farmers but women, servants, serfs, landless workers, youths, and many others ⠅
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early twentieth century. Narratives on the figure of the peasant have changed dramatically and often in the intervening … years, expressing broader political debates, and suggesting the question, “what, then, is a Chinese peasant?” This paper … in contemporary political and popular discourse, the paper aims to further clarify politics on the figure of the peasant …
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