Famine in Peasant SocietiesBloomsbury Academic, 24 Ιουν 1986 - 494 σελίδες 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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... short periods of flooding or low water levels owing to careless water control . The result is marginal increases in yields . “ We production scientists ... are confused by the limited adoption of the new tech- nology and the modest ...
... short periods of flooding or low water levels owing to careless water control . The result is marginal increases in yields . “ We production scientists ... are confused by the limited adoption of the new tech- nology and the modest ...
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... short periods of time . The harrowing was often a sloppy procedure , accomplished by tying a light rake to the tail of a horse . The harvest , however , required an intense effort in a short time . Harvesting oats was called saving the ...
... short periods of time . The harrowing was often a sloppy procedure , accomplished by tying a light rake to the tail of a horse . The harvest , however , required an intense effort in a short time . Harvesting oats was called saving the ...
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... Short History of Ireland , 14–41 . 2. George O'Brien , The Economic History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century , 173– 176 , 244–245 , 269–272 . James C. Beckett , A Short History of Ireland , 44. Michael Perceval - Maxwell , The ...
... Short History of Ireland , 14–41 . 2. George O'Brien , The Economic History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century , 173– 176 , 244–245 , 269–272 . James C. Beckett , A Short History of Ireland , 44. Michael Perceval - Maxwell , The ...
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Introduction | 1 |
English Peasant Society from the Domesday Survey to | 43 |
Indonesian Subsistence Culture | 127 |
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