Focusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsistence agriculture and development goals. Found inside – Page 598a study of a dry zone village in Sri Lanka Jan Roderic Bialy. ll 2 1982 n Roderic. flows in subsistence ADD00mfll7b01 DATE DUE. Agriculture dominates the Ethiopian economy, accounting for about 50 percent of its GDP and 82 percent of its employment. Found insideAn Experimental Survey A. Farouk, Syed Ataur Rahim. - A/-A - %4- MODERNIZING SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE Agriculture AN EXPERIMENTAL SURVEY. Found insideACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper was prepared as part of a series of ongoing IFPRI research projects on the effects of increased commercialization of semisubsistence agriculture on income, food consumption, and nutrition. This study was ... Found insideFocusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America. This is an area of special concern in the uses of food products as the basis for new energy resources - an issue of increasing importance in the advancing use of ethanol as a fuel drawn from corn products. Found inside – Page 18For example, within any rural area or agricultural sector one can find pure subsistence farmers, commercial farmers, and all the “inbetweens. The book includes: A practical discussion of 12 major land use options for boosting food production and enhancing local economies while protecting the natural resource base. How can Malawi better leverage its smallholder agriculture sector to improve nutrition? This report provides a series of primary and secondary data anal­yses that examine different aspects of this question. The need in increasing food production to meet the food and nutritional demands of the ever growing population has necessitated this attempt to unveil the strategies of fostering subsistence agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Found insideterms is that the words “subsistence” and “commercial” have far too many meanings ! The first agriculture was pure subsistence agriculture. This book is of major interest to the relevant audience since it offers for the first time a global perspective on the bioarchaeology of the transition to agriculture. This book presents South Asia as a case study, due to the high soil erosion caused by monsoon rainfall and geophysical conditions in the region, which necessitate conservation agriculture approaches, and the high percentage of people in ... Found insideAn exploration of preindustrial agriculture that applies insights from biodemography, physiological ecology, and household demography. This book is the third in a series evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. "This book focuses on the latest research in conservation agriculture (CA), with an emphasis on the applicability of results worldwide. Found insideThis book brings together studies by administrators, agronomists, anthropologists, forest ecologists, geographers and jurists, who describe a variety of swidden systems and their effect on soil, forest, society, and economy. This book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption, environmental sociology and social movements. The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Found insideThrough the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural ... This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet ... Found inside – Page 268Chapter 7 FINAL REMARKS The major objective of this work was to analyze the role played by subsistence agriculture in the process of capital accumulation in Brazil since the constitution of a free labor market . With the emancipation of the ... The question arises, has migration modified longstanding subsistence agricultural practices centered on local varieties of rainfed maize? If not, what might explain the continuities and changes in agricultural practice observed? Much of the information presented is not readily available within PNG. The book contains results of many new analyses, including a food budget for the entire nation. The text is supported by 165 tables and 215 maps and figures. Found inside – Page 126There is no intention of making a systematic condemnation of agricultural mechanisation on the native level, but ... Melanesian subsistence agriculture from the point of view of nutrition Possible solutions to the problems of Melanesian ... Food requirements; Pre-agricultural man; primitive and shifting agriculture; Agricultural progress measured in grain equivalents; Production and productivity; Rents and prices of agricultural land; Labour and land; Transport; Consuption; ... 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