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by Harold Brookfield and Helen Parsons

Routledge

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Asking agrarian questions; defining the family farm -- Farming as it was -- Setting up the farm: accessing land and water -- Workforce, livestock, tools and seeds -- From the farm to the consumer -- Farmers and the state: the leading role of the North Atlantic countries -- Farms collectivized and de-collectivized: Russia and China -- The periphery: from structuralism to neo-liberalism -- Farmers as landscape custodians: environmentalism, land degradation and pollution -- Conservation and growing complexity since the 1980s -- Collisions over land in developing countries: Mexico and Brazil -- Contrasted de-agrarianization: Africa and Asia -- Two paths into the new century: pluriactivity and organics

AU Parsons, Helen 1955- , TI

HD

1476

.A3 B76

2007

HD 1476 .A3 B76 2007

2007