Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia - Couverture souple

Neilson, Jeff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501780921 ISBN 13 : 9781501780929

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Fortress Farming identifies in Indonesia's rural coffee-growing regions an alternative livelihood strategy that is reshaping relationships with land and informing Indonesia's agrarian transition. Jeff Neilson presents "fortress farming" households as ones that are reluctant to embrace productivity-maximizing agriculture, even as they interact with commodity markets and powerful downstream companies. Rather, these households tenaciously maintain access to land as a last defense against insecurity in a precarious global economy, all the while actively tapping into off-farm income sources. Fortress farming confounds assumptions that the development process entails an inevitable transition away from the land and into city-based manufacturing. Shifting away from production to take in a fuller view of rural Indonesian coffee-growing communities, Fortress Farming explores how and why defensive farming strategies have emerged, and what these tendencies mean for our understanding of agrarian transition in late-industrializing countries in the early twenty-first century. Neilson posits that late-industrializing countries may never undergo a full agrarian transition: in the alternative livelihood practice of fortress farming, we see a way that local social institutions can resist, or at least modify, the productive forces of capitalist agriculture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeff Neilson is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Sydney. He is the coauthor of Value Chain Struggles and the coeditor of Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501780921
• ISBN 13: 9781501780929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
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