Famine in Peasant SocietiesBloomsbury Academic, 24. juni 1986 - 494 sider In this controversial study, Seavoy offers a new approach to the problem of periodic peacetime famine based on the actual behavior of peasants. He maintains that it is possible to increase per capita food production without massive and inappropriate technological inputs. Seavoy shifts the focus from modern development economics to a cultural and historical analysis of subsistence agriculture in Western Europe (England and Ireland), Indonesia, and India. From his survey of peasant civilization practices in these countries, he generalizes on the social values that create what he terms the subsistence compromise. In all of the ages and culture, Seavoy finds a consistent social organization of agriculture that produces identical results: seasonal hunger in poor crop years and famine conditions in consecutive poor crop years. He argues that economic policies have failed to increase per capita food production because economists and government planners try to apply market-oriented policies to populations that are not commercially motivated. Once they understand the subsistence compromise, policy-makers can take appropriate political action. |
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... yeomen cultivators in the sixteenth century learned to accumulate money , aggregate the cultivation units of other peasants , and manage the paid labor of landless peasants . In addition to aggregating cultivation units , yeomen also ...
... yeomen cultivators in the sixteenth century learned to accumulate money , aggregate the cultivation units of other peasants , and manage the paid labor of landless peasants . In addition to aggregating cultivation units , yeomen also ...
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... yeomen craftsmen , like weavers , cutlers , or potters , certainly confirms Young's observation . Yeomen craftsmen , like yeomen cultivators , owned their means of production : yeomen cultivators owned or leased their land and yeomen ...
... yeomen craftsmen , like weavers , cutlers , or potters , certainly confirms Young's observation . Yeomen craftsmen , like yeomen cultivators , owned their means of production : yeomen cultivators owned or leased their land and yeomen ...
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... yeomen with national aspirations . City residents were a minority . Nobody in the nationalist movement and almost nobody else ever questioned the close identi- fication of interest between nationalism and yeomen . The politics of the ...
... yeomen with national aspirations . City residents were a minority . Nobody in the nationalist movement and almost nobody else ever questioned the close identi- fication of interest between nationalism and yeomen . The politics of the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
English Peasant Society from the Domesday Survey to | 43 |
Indonesian Subsistence Culture | 127 |
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achieve subsistence Agrarian agricultural labor arable land assured food surplus cassava central governments century Clifford Geertz commercial social values conacre consecutive poor crop continuous cultivation control land cultivation units demesne displaced peasants districts Dutch Economic History Review economists England English exchange commodities export farmers feed fertility food grains food production food safety grazing grow Gunung Kidul Harijans harvest hectares hunger India Indonesia Ireland Irish Java Javanese Kalimantan labor expenditures labor inputs labor of cultivation ladang landholders landless landowners livestock maize manorlords market sale money incomes moneylenders normal crop partible inheritance pastures peasant households peasant societies peasantry percent plantations planted plowing policies political population densities population increases potatoes produce an assured purchase rent rice Rural sago sawah Second Series sharecrop shifting cultivation soil square kilometer Studies subsistence compromise subsistence food safety subsistence sharing tegalan tenure trees Tropical usually village village's villein wage labor weeding yeomen yields Yogyakarta
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