Table of contents:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Purpose, Classification, and Organization, Turner & Brush
2. Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change, Brush & Turner
II. PALEOTECHNIC AND CONSUMPTION-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
3. Amazonia Swidden, Beckerman
4. The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Peasant Economy of Yucatan, Ewell & Merrill-Sands
5. Swiddeners in Transition: Lua Farmers in Northwestern Thailand, Kunstadter
6. Upland and Swamp Rice Farming in Sierra Leone: An Evolutionary Transition, Richards
III. MIXED TECHNIC AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
7. Agricultural Ecology in the Mid-Hills of Nepal, Ashby & Pachico
8. Irrigation, Mechanized Agriculture, and the State: The Case of an Upper Egyptian Village, Hopkins
9. Intensification in Peasant Farming, Punjab in the Green Revolution, Leaf
10. Intensive Paddy and Garden Agriculture in Bangladesh: Change in Shyampur Village, Ali
IV. NEOTECHNIC AND COMMODITY-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
11. Dryland Wheat Farming in the Central Great Plains: Sedgewick County Northeast Colorado, Spaeth
12. Growing against the Grain: Rice Farming in the Sacramento Valley, Pudup & Watts
13. Mechanized Cooperative System in Southeastern Hungary, Karacsony, Szathmary, & Szucs
14. High Tech Farming Systems in Champagne, France: Change in Response to Agribusiness and International Controls, Dorel
Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, Farming Systems offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture. The 12 farming systems explored here encompass the broad array of environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions in which agriculture exists-from Amazonian swidden to Hungarian cooperative farms. B.L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush have provided a three-part classification of the systems based on output intensity, technology employed, and production goals. The contributors bring to their case studies the perspectives of anthropology, economics, geography, and rural sociology.
Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, Farming Systems offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture.
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Purpose, Classification, and Organization, Turner & Brush
2. Nature of Farming Systems and Views of Their Change, Brush & Turner
II. PALEOTECHNIC AND CONSUMPTION-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
3. Amazonia Swidden, Beckerman
4. The Milpa and Its Alternatives in the Maya Peasant Economy of Yucatan, Ewell & Merrill-Sands
5. Swiddeners in Transition: Lua Farmers in Northwestern Thailand, Kunstadter
6. Upland and Swamp Rice Farming in Sierra Leone: An Evolutionary Transition, Richards
III. MIXED TECHNIC AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
7. Agricultural Ecology in the Mid-Hills of Nepal, Ashby & Pachico
8. Irrigation, Mechanized Agriculture, and the State: The Case of an Upper Egyptian Village, Hopkins
9. Intensification in Peasant Farming, Punjab in the Green Revolution, Leaf
10. Intensive Paddy and Garden Agriculture in Bangladesh: Change in Shyampur Village, Ali
IV. NEOTECHNIC AND COMMODITY-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
11. Dryland Wheat Farming in the Central Great Plains: Sedgewick County Northeast Colorado, Spaeth
12. Growing against the Grain: Rice Farming in the Sacramento Valley, Pudup & Watts
13. Mechanized Cooperative System in Southeastern Hungary, Karacsony, Szathmary, & Szucs
14. High Tech Farming Systems in Champagne, France: Change in Response to Agribusiness and International Controls, Dorel
Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, Farming Systems offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture. The 12 farming systems explored here encompass the broad array of environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions in which agriculture exists-from Amazonian swidden to Hungarian cooperative farms. B.L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush have provided a three-part classification of the systems based on output intensity, technology employed, and production goals. The contributors bring to their case studies the perspectives of anthropology, economics, geography, and rural sociology.
Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, Farming Systems offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture.