The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs co...

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

This paper develops the concept of ‘critical agrarianism’ to describe and advance the pursuit of land-based work as a means of realizing social justice and environmental sustainability. Encouraging new agrarianism to more carefully scrutinize its agenda, critical agrarianism celebrates the promise of a close working relationship with the natural world while insisting that a return to the land—p...

The topic of this article is the transformation of Thailand from an agrarian into an industrial society. This kind of transformation – or development is far more difficult to realise than is generally assumed, and for quite other reasons than often thought. The main theory – based on ideas of the British anthropologist Ernest Gellner – is that there is a fundamental gap, in the political, socia...

We wish to acknowledge the financial and substantive support provided by the Swedish International Development Agency, the American people, via the Food Security III Cooperative Agreement (GDG-A-00-02-00021-00) between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, and from the USAID mission in Zambia. Re...

When droughts and floods struck ancient agrarian societies, complex networks of exchange interaction channeled resources into affected settlements migrant flows away from them. Did these evolve in part to connect populations living differing climate regimes? Here, I examine this relationship with a long-term archaeological case study the pre-Hispanic North American Southwest, analyzing 4.3 mill...

M ost people agree that computer science will play a significant role in the global information society. But what will that role be? Analyzing the part knowledge played in the agrarian, industrial, and information societies—which correspond roughly to the past, present, and future—can help answer this question. In an agrarian society, people provide the main source of energy, in the sense that ...

Agroecological transitions in the Global North are inhibited by cultural and legal norms of a ‘ownership model’ property that underpins agrarian capitalism. The resulting system limits asset transfers to agroecological regimes co-produces technologically oriented reforms. Scotland’s land reforms emergent interventions reshape ownership within Western context. By examining manoeuvres, mobilizing...

1 State University of São Paulo, Department of Animal Science, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Science Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2 University of Sao Paulo, Department of Animal Nutrition and Production, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Pirassununga, Sao Paulo, Brazil 3 Federal University of Viçosa, Department of Animal Science, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil 4 Federal Unive...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this health care provision and patient mobility health integration in the european union, ho...