Author: Netting, Robert McC.
Title: Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xxi, 389 pp. Textual photos & tables. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Prologue;: An Ethnological Essay in Practical Reason; The Technology & Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices; The Farm-Family Household; Labor-Time Allocation; Energy Inputs, Outputs, & Sustainable Systems; Farm Size and Productivity; Smallholder Property & Tenure; Inequality, Stratification & Polarization; Chinese Smallholders; Intensive Agriculture, Population Density, Markets, & the Smallholder Adaptation; Peasant Farming & the Chayanov Model; Epilogue: Does the Smallholder Have a Future?

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Agriculture Ecology, Agrarian Economics, Sociology Ethnology, Ethnography Social, Farms Agricultural, Smallholders, Smallholder Economy, Sustainable Farming