Conditions of Agricultural Growth.

Investigating the process of agrarian change, this book analyzes costs and productivity under the main systems of primitive agriculture. The conclusion is that technical, economic and social changes are unlikely to take place within primitive agriculture unless the rural community concerned is expos...

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Main Author: Boserup, Ester
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; 1. THE DYNAMICS OF LAND UTILIZATION; The Historical Sequence; Land Use in the Tropics; The Changing Landscape; 2. THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF LAND USE AND TECHNICAL CHANGE; Fallow Systems and Types of Techniques; Kind of Tool vs. Make of Tool; 3. LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY UNDER LONG-FALLOW AND SHORT-FALLOW SYSTEMS; From Forest Fallow to Bush Fallow; The Advent of Plough Cultivation; 4. CARRYING CAPACITY OF LAND AND PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR UNDER INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; From Natural Grazing to Produced Fodder; From Dry to Irrigated Agriculture. 
505 8 |a Population Growth and Labour Productivity5. POPULATION GROWTH AND WORKING HOURS; Short Hours under the Long-Fallow System; The Dead Seasons under the Short-Fallow System; The Hard Toil of Intensive Agriculture; The Gradual Change of Working Habits; 6. THE CO-EXISTENCE OF CULTIVATION SYSTEMS; Adaptation of Land Use to Natural Conditions; The Cases of Java and Japan; Reductions of Population Density; Effects of Rapid Population Growth; 7. DIMINISHING RETURNS TO LABOUR AND TECHNICAL INERTIA; 8. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF SPARSE POPULATION AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES. 
505 8 |a Preconditions for the Concentration of PopulationDivergent Patterns of Agriculture; 9. SYSTEMS OF LAND USE AS A DETERMINANT OF LAND TENURE; General and Specific Rights of Cultivation; The Characteristics of Landlord Tenure; Grazing Rights and Shortening of Fallow Periods; From Landlord Tenure to Private Property in Land; 10. INVESTMENT AND TENURE IN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES; Organization of Investment under Tribal Tenure; Contest over Property Rights; 11. RURAL INVESTMENT UNDER LANDLORD TENURE; Intensive Agriculture with Feudal Landlords; The Neglect of Investment under Colonial Rule. 
505 8 |a The Response to Price Incentives12. INCENTIVES TO INVESTMENT UNDER MODERN TENURE; Investment under Family Farming; Real Wages and Employment; Food Prices and Taxation of Agriculture; 13. THE USE OF INDUSTRIAL INPUT IN PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE; 14. SOME PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS; INDEX. 
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