Peasant Economics Second Edition: Farm Households in Agrarian Development (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521457114 ISBN 13: 9780521457118

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is a revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same building blocks designed to explore household decision-making in a social context. Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change. For these and other topics, household economic behaviour represents the outcome of social interactions within the household, and market interactions outside the household. A new chapter on the environment combines exposition of economic tools not previously covered in the book with examination of household and community decision-making in relation to environmental resources.

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Review

' ... a significant contribution to material on the economic analysis of peasant household agricultural production.' International Journal of Agricultural Economics

' ... a succinct and accessible review of an area important to both development and agricultural economics.' Journal Development Studies

Book Description

A revised and expanded edition of a popular textbook on the economics of farm households in developing countries. The second edition retains the same successful features of the first with the addition of a new chapter on the environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521457114
• ISBN 13: 9780521457118
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 328