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...

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 ...

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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...

"The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structu...

We investigate the existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and technical efficiency in Philippine brackishwater pond aquaculture. The study is motivated by the exemption of fish ponds from the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Laws and suggestions in the literature of inefficient management of fish farms. The analysis of technical efficiency is based on the estimation of a multi...