Comparative Agriculture

• Main Author: Cochet, Hubert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Agricultural economics.; Life Sciences.; Agricultural Economics.; History, general.; Sustainable Development.

How to define comparative agriculture? What can it offer to the analysis of agrarian realities and agricultural development processes? How did it become a driving force behind the proposals at the service of sustainable development? In the footsteps of René Dumont, Hubert Cochet offers a thorough an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• SECTION ONE: THEORETICAL APPROACH TO COMPARATIVE AGRICULTURE
• Chapter 1. Comparative agriculture, Object and Issues
• Chapter 2. The Origins of Comparative agriculture and René Dumont’s Legacy
• Chapter 3. “Agrarian System”, Integrating Concept of Comparative agriculture
• Chapter 4. Diachronic Approach to Agrarian Systems
• Chapter 5. Comparing Productive Processes
• SECTION TWO: METHODS AND EXPERTISE OF COMPARATIVE AGRICULTURE
• Chapter 6. Micro-Regional Approach to Agrarian Issues
• Chapter 7. Terrain and Surveys
• Chapter 8. Making History in Comparative agriculture
• Chapter 9. How to Build Farm Typologies?
• Chapter 10. Economy of Agricultural Production Process
• Chapter 11. Comparative agriculture and Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.