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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Cash Cropping"”.
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The Impact of Groundnut Production and Marketing Decisions upon Household Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Gender Matter?
… investigates the relationship between groundnut cash cropping decisions and household food security in two regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Particular attention is paid to how the gender of groundnut growers influences this relationship. Additionally, the thesis examines how gender influences …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
… rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . Some attempt is made to take account of the diversity of local responses to that interaction. The politics of the big peasantry …
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Groups, classes and peasant politics in Ghana and Papua New Guinea
… rural elites during the development of cash cropping associated with the interaction between Ghanaian and Papua New Guinean societies and the world economy . Some attempt is made to take account of the diversity of local responses to that interaction. The politics of the big peasantry …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… which followed the widespread introduction of cash cropping. These two modes combine to alter the price signals determined by the world market, and domestic pricing policy, at an intrahousehold level. That is individual incentives are not determined by world markets but by household power …
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Changing land use and children's health in Mae Chaem, northern Thailand
… and particularly the rise of pesticide intensive cash cropping, since the late 1950’s. Introductory chapters on theory and methods precede a description of the ethnographic context. Case studies illustrating parent and farmer histories of child health and land use change spanning fifty years are …
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Feasts of Change: Food and History in the Cook Islands, 1825-1975
… Central to my arguments is that, as cash cropping and the amount of imported foodstuffs increased, Cook Islanders incorporated these new production practices and foodstuffs into pre-existing customs in innovative ways. Often at odds with the necessity, and ingenuity, of adaption is …
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Continuity and change in Mekeo society, 1890-1971
… policies of enforced labour and compulsory cash cropping are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapter Four outlines the background of social stability in the pre-war period. The effects of the Second World War - the breaking down of the former isolation of the village community and the arousing …
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Continuity and change in Mekeo society, 1890-1971
… policies of enforced labour and compulsory cash cropping are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapter Four outlines the background of social stability in the pre-war period. The effects of the Second World War - the breaking down of the former isolation of the village community and the arousing …
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Labour migration and its impact on non-capitalist social formations : a comparative study of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka in Malawi, circa 1880 to 1940
… In the centre and south developed peasant cash-cropping with some labour-migration and a weak capitalist plantation economy. More recently, labour migration to neighbouring countries has been dramatically reduced and the labour redirected to peasant cash-cropping and to the capitalist …
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Agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1948-1978 : a case study of maize production in Kasama District
… colonial government's demand for maize as both cash crop and food for urban workers after the second world war, led to the creation of settlement schemes in Kasama District and elsewhere, in an effort to shift the local population from subsistence to cash cropping. But despite the support given …
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Agricultural change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1948-1978 : a case study of maize production in Kasama District
… colonial government's demand for maize as both cash crop and food for urban workers after the second world war, led to the creation of settlement schemes in Kasama District and elsewhere, in an effort to shift the local population from subsistence to cash cropping. But despite the support given …
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Immoral Economy: Negative Ethics and Everyday Economic Life in the Southern Peruvian Andes
… money, gift exchange, wealth inequality, and cash cropping, I argue that routine evaluative judgements about bad actions and characteristics of others are deeply implicated in attempts to make a good living and to live well. The dissertation is based on 18-months of ethnographic research in …