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Grassroot Empowerment (1975-1990): A Discussion Paper
Banerjee, Narayana K - eSocialSciences - 2010
The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on the empowerment of women at the grassroots - namely, to the organisations of poor women in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505783
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Livelihood Diversity of Peasants in Hilly Region of Southwestern China
Li, Tiange; Gao, Peng; Zhang, Yaran; Wang, Tao - In: Asian Agricultural Research 1 (2009) 08
peasants and land. A total of 185 peasant households in the 4 villages are investigated from the aspects of family scale, age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546927
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Persistence of family farming, learning from its dynamics
Calus, Mieke; Lauwers, Ludwig H. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
Traditionally, the family farm has always been seen as a cornerstone of the agricultural production system. Given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998934
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Production Efficiency in Peasant Agriculture: An Application of LISREL Model
Mariam, Yohannes; Eisemon, Thomas; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
The study examined a simplified conceptual model which incorporates variables that influence the processes and consequences of household decision-making in the Ada and Selale districts of the Ethiopian highlands. Linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis was performed on three conceptual...
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Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency: Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c 1900 – 1940
Green, Erik - Ekonomisk-historiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
The role of factor endowments and institutions as drivers of socio-economic change and development is a central theme in economic and agrarian history. The common approach is to identify either factor endowments or institutions as triggers of change. Meanwhile, institutions and factor endowments...
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Natural Regeneration of Tree in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones in West Africa
Bakhoum, Charles; Agbangba, Emile Codjo; Ndour, Babou - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 2 (2012) 12, pp. 820-834
The synthesis of acquired published in this article focuses on the investigation of natural regeneration of tree in arid and semi-arid West Africa. The results showed that, even if the threat on ecosystems was ancient, research / actions in that were relatively recent. It was recognized that...
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A Constituição do Campesinato na Amazônia e suas Estratégias de Reprodução: o caso da comunidade São Bento no Estado do Acre
Andrade, Francisco Gomes; Mattos, Adriano Lincoln … - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
of cognitive stigma that has charcaterized the peasant as un “unable” person. The arguments developed in this article are …” configuration enbodied as a rubber tree peasant. The analysis tries to show that strategy used by these peasants in order to …
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Spatial Dynamics and the Persistence of Inequality in Siam during 1782-1855 (in Thai)
Preechametta, Arayah - In: Applied Economics Journal 21 (2014) 2, pp. 1-29
foreign trades, risk diversification in transition economy, and the interaction between patron and peasant under the feudal …
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Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - Department of Economic and Social History, University … - 2012
-maximizing behaviour by rural people – not just peasant farmers but women, servants, serfs, landless workers, youths, and many others ⠅
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What, then, is a Chinese peasant? Nongmin discourses and agroindustrialization in contemporary China
Schneider, Mindi - In: Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2015) 2, pp. 331-346
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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