Umfang:
1 online resource (125 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415312981
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9781136503368
Inhalt:
Investigating the process of agrarian change, this book analyzes costs and productivity under the main system of primitive agriculture
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1.THE DYNAMICS OF LAND UTILIZATION -- The Historical Sequence -- Land Use in the Tropics -- The Changing Landscape -- 2. THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF LAND USE AND TECHNICAL CHANGE -- Fallow Systems and Types of Techniques -- Kind of Tool vs. Make of Tool -- 3. LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY UNDER LONG-FALLOW AND SHORT-FALLOW SYSTEMS -- From Forest Fallow to Bush Fallow -- The Advent of Plough Cultivation -- 4. CARRYING CAPACITY OF LAND AND PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR UNDER INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE -- From Natural Grazing to Produced Fodder -- From Dry to Irrigated Agriculture -- Population Growth and Labour Productivity -- 5. POPULATION GROWTH AND WORKING HOURS -- Short Hours under the Long-Fallow System -- The Dead Seasons under the Short-Fallow System -- The Hard Toil of Intensive Agriculture -- The Gradual Change of Working Habits -- 6. THE CO-EXISTENCE OF CULTIVATION SYSTEMS -- Adaptation of Land Use to Natural Conditions -- The Cases of Java and Japan -- Reductions of Population Density -- Effects of Rapid Population Growth -- 7. DIMINISHING RETURNS TO LABOUR AND TECHNICAL INERTIA -- 8. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF SPARSE POPULATION AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES -- Preconditions for the Concentration of Population -- Divergent Patterns of Agriculture -- 9. SYSTEMS OF LAND USE AS A DETERMINANT OF LAND TENURE -- General and Specific Rights of Cultivation -- The Characteristics of Landlord Tenure -- Grazing Rights and Shortening of Fallow Periods -- From Landlord Tenure to Private Property in Land -- 10. INVESTMENT AND TENURE IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES -- Organization of Investment under Tribal Tenure -- Contest over Property Rights -- 11. RURAL INVESTMENT UNDER LANDLORD TENURE -- Intensive Agriculture with Feudal Landlords -- The Neglect of Investment under Colonial Rule -- The Response to Price Incentives
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12. INCENTIVES TO INVESTMENT UNDER MODERN TENURE -- Investment under Family Farming -- Real Wages and Employment -- Food Prices and Taxation of Agriculture -- 13. THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL INPUT IN PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE -- 14. SOME PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS -- INDEX
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Boserup, Ester Conditions of Agricultural Growth Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415312981
Sprache:
Englisch
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