Changing Land Use, Changing Livelihoods: Smallholders Today - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3038423424 ISBN 13 : 9783038423423

Editeur : Mdpi AG, 2017

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mdpi AG
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3038423424
• ISBN 13: 9783038423423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Éditeur: Radel Claudia A, Vadjunec Jacqueline M
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible