Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods : Smallholders Today
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9783038423423
- ISBN-10: 3038423424
- Publisher: Mdpi AG
- Publish Date: March 2017
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.19 pounds
- Page Count: 250
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