Essays about: "Agrarian political economy"

Found 3 essays containing the words Agrarian political economy.

  1. 1. Indigeneity as a base for rural development : a case study of the indigenous community Ramada, eastern Bolivia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Line Munk; [2020]
    Keywords : Bolivia; TCOs; Indigenous peoples; Agrarian question; Rural development; Agrarian political economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Central to the field of agrarian political economy, is rural development and capitalism’s advancement in the countryside and its consequences for the peasantry, ‘the agrarian question’. With the present case study, I examine the interplay between social relations of production and agrarian change in eastern Bolivia. READ MORE

  3. 2. Organic Farming is Coming to Our Valley : The Development of Pumi Eco-Agriculture and the Indigenisation of Modernity in Sino-Myanmar Borderlands

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Ze Gao; [2019]
    Keywords : eco-agriculture; indigenisation of modernity; environmentality; traditional ecological knowledge; agricultural land use; technical practices; governance; Pumi ethnicity; rural development; highland livelihoods; borderland; post-development theory; political ecology; contemporary history; agricultural policy;

    Abstract : How do indigenous people perceive and practice eco-agriculture, especially when it was introduced as a development project? This thesis aims to delve into this question by focusing on a policy-induced agrarian transition for Pumi community in Sino-Myanmar borderlands. Using ethnographic methods, I intend to offer an intimate account of a provincial programme to facilitate eco-agriculture in this ethnic region. READ MORE

  4. 3. Prosperity and marginalization : An analysis of the expanding meat production in southern Brazil

    University essay from Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Markus Lundström; [2009]
    Keywords : Livestock revolution; Brazil; food regimes; globalization; development; meat;

    Abstract : The production of meat has risen dramatically during the past decades. This process, generally referred to as the Livestock Revolution, particularly includes so called “developing countries”, hosting the most intensive augmentation of both production and consumption. READ MORE