Types of Rural Economy: Studies in World Agriculture - Hardcover

Dumont, Rene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041658490X ISBN 13: 9780416584905

Publisher: Methuen young books, 1957

Synopsis

Physical Description: xii, 556 pages : maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Translation of Économie agricole dans le monde; Includes bibliographical references. Contents: 1. Essential criteria and agricultural policies. -2. The equatorial rain forest in the north of the Belgian Congo. [rainforest] -3. The tropical savannah of Africa from Chad to the River Casamance. -4. The overpopulated coastal plains of monsoon Asia in northern Vietnam. 5. Sheep and cereals, tress and water in north Africa . -6. Arid plateaux and 'huertas' in Spain. -7. Overpopulation and unemployment in the Italian countryside. 8. Pastoralism dominant in the Val D'Annivers in the Swiss Alps. -9. The stubaital in the Tyrolean Alps, Cultivation modernized. 10. Bavarian agriculture -- intensive and mechanized, but farm units too small. -11. The Belgian farm -- well kept but undersized. -12. The recovery of English agriculture; rapid mechanization. -13. Intensification in the Low Countries: its possibilities and limitations. -14. Agrarian reform in East Germany. -15. Hungary -- agriculture in a people's democracy. -15. From Slovak peasant to the Czech co-operative and the Soviet 'Kolkhoz'. Conclusion: Malthusian economics responsible for the World's hunger. Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects; Townscapes Painting; Agriculture Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen young books
• Publication date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041658490X
• ISBN 13: 9780416584905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568