Inthe first section dedicated to theoretical thoughts on comparative agriculture, Hubert Cochet introduces the notion of agricultural development, the very subject of comparative agriculture, with a restored endogenous dimension. He then describes how this approach was slowly consolidated, around the concept of agrarian system in particular. The comparison of agricultural transformations in time and space highlights the importance of the comparatist approach to production processes, their trajectories and differentiation on a worldwide scale. The second section which focuses on the methods...
Inthe first section dedicated to theoretical thoughts on comparative agriculture, Hubert Cochet introduces the notion of agricultural development, the...
Based on an in-depth analysis of several contrasting agricultural regions, this book aims to assess South Africa s ongoing agrarian reform and the country s agrarian dynamics. Without fundamentally questioning the highly specialized, fossil energy and synthetic input dependent, oligopolistic entrepreneurial agricultural production model, which is presently structuring the sector and is guiding the reforms, a more equitable redistribution of resources and value-addition will by no means be possible. This book examines and contributes to the structural questions that underpin the current...
Based on an in-depth analysis of several contrasting agricultural regions, this book aims to assess South Africa s ongoing agrarian reform and the cou...