Asian smallholders in comparative perspective / edited by Eric Thompson, Jonathan Rigg and Jamie Gillen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Eric (Eric C.), editor.

Rigg, Jonathan, editor.

Gillen, Jamie, 1977- editor.

Series:

Transforming Asia.

Transforming Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable agriculture--Asia.

Sustainable agriculture.

Land use--Asia.

Land use.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Asia.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Asia--History.

Family farms--Asia.

Family farms.

Farms, Small--Asia.

Farms, Small.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective provides the first multicountry, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and economic formation in the Asian countryside: the smallholder. Based on ten core country chapters, the volume describes and explains the persistence, transformations, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings across East and Southeast Asia. As well as providing a source book for scholars working on agrarian change in the region, it also engages with a number of key current areas of debate, including: the nature and direction of the agrarian transition in Asia, and its distinctiveness vis à vis transitions in the global North; the persistence of the smallholder notwithstanding deep and rapid structural change; and the question of the efficiency and productivity of smallholder-based farming set against concerns over global and national food security.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective

1. Cambodia: Political Strife and Problematic Land Tenure

2. Indonesia: Whither Involution, Demographics, and Development?

3. Japan: Government Interventions and Part-time Family Farming

4. Laos: Responding to Pressures and Opportunities

5. Malaysia: The State of/in Village Agriculture

6. The Philippines: Fragmented Agriculture , Aquaculture, and Vulnerable Livelihoods

7. Singapore: Making Space for Farming

8. Taiwan: Toward the Revitalization of Smallholder Agriculture

9. Thailand: The Political Economy of Post-Peasant Agriculture

10. Vietnam: From Socialist Transformation to Reform

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on 8th May, 2022).

ISBN:

1-003-69126-9

90-485-5653-8

90-485-4020-8

9781003691266

OCLC:

1127654472