Changing land use, changing livelihoods : smallholders today / edited by Claudia A. Radel, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radel, Claudia A., editor.

Vadjunec, Jacqueline M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Other Title:

Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017.

Summary:

This book brings together eleven works by scholars within and beyond geography, to argue the case for a continued engagement with smallholder agricultural studies. The research detailed is largely empirical and draws on a wide spectrum of mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The case studies cover a range of geographic locations, including Brazil, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Vietnam, and the USA, with greatest emphasis in sub-Saharan Africa. Key themes that emerge include the structural and relative nature of "smallholder" as a category, the dynamic reality of smallholder livelihoods, the importance of smallholder farming and land-use practices to questions of environmental sustainability, and the challenges of vulnerability and adaptation in contemporary human-environment systems. Overall these studies show that smallholder studies are more pertinent than ever, especially in the face of finite resources and global environmental change.

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