The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family

ISBN-13: 9781107033412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 512 str.

James Wood

Opis

An exploration of preindustrial agriculture that applies insights from biodemography, physiological ecology, and household demography.

Spis treści

Part I. Introductory Concepts: 1. Thinking about population and traditional farmers; 2. Farmers, farms and farming resources; 3. Limits; Part II. Macro-Demographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming: 4. A modicum of demography; 5. Malthus and Boserup; 6. The intensification debate after Boserup; Part III. Micro-Demographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming: 7. The farming household as a fundamental unit of analysis; 8. Under-nutrition and the household demographic enterprise; 9. The nature of traditional farm work and the household labor force; 10. The economics of the household demographic life cycle; 11. Seasonality and the household demographic enterprise; 12. Beyond the household; Appendix. A bibliographic essay on subsistence farming; References; Index.