The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9781138071308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg

Opis

Revised edition of the author's The new peasantries, 2008.

Spis treści

1. Peasants and peasant agriculture: basic concepts and data  2. A further specification of peasant agriculture  3. Delineating and comparing peasant and entrepreneurial farming  4. Rural development: processes of repeasantization in Europe  5. The struggle for land in Latin America: waves of repeasantization and depeasantization  6. China: the potential of peasant agriculture  7. Self-organizing territories  8. The construction of new, nested markets  9. Theorizing the peasantries of the twenty-first century  10. Food empires and the peasant principle

O autorze

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is Emeritus Professor of Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor, College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University in Beijing, China.