Boserup Conditions of Agricultural Growth

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-50336-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten

Investigating the process of agrarian change, this book analyzes costs and productivity under the main systems of primitive agriculture. The conclusion is that technical, economic and social changes are unlikely to take place within primitive agriculture unless the rural community concerned is exposed to the pressure of population growth: a conclusion that is in sharp contrast to generally accepted ideas.
The themes in the book are central to the discussion of the problems of population explosion and the world's undernourished peoples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boserup, Ester

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Dynamics of Land Utilization

The Historical Sequence

Land Use In The Tropics

The Changing Landscape

2. The Interdependence of Land Use and Technical Change

Fallow Systems and Types of Techniques

Kind of Tool vs. Make of Tool

3. Labour Productivity Under Long-Fallow and Short-Fallow Systems

From Forest Fallow to Bush Fallow

The Advent of Plough Cultivation

4. Carrying Capacity of Land and Productivity of Labour Under Intensive Agriculture

From Natural Grazing to Produced Fodder

From Dry to Irrigated Agriculture

Population Growth and Labour Productivity

5. Population Growth and Working Hours

Short Hours under the Long-Fallow System

The Dead Seasons under the Short-Fallow System

The Hard Toil of Intensive Agriculture

The Gradual Change of Working Habits

6. The Co-Existence of Cultivation Systems

Adaptation of Land Use to Natural Conditions

The Cases of Java and Japan

Reductions of Population Density

Effects of Rapid Population Growth

7. Diminishing Returns to Labour and Technical Inertia

8. The Vicious Circle of Sparse Population and Primitive Techniques

Preconditions for the Concentration of Population

Divergent Patterns of Agriculture

9. Systems of Land Use as a Determinant of Land Tenure

General and Specific Rights of Cultivation

The Characteristics of Landlord Tenure

Grazing Rights and Shortening of Fallow Periods

From Landlord Tenure to Private Property in Land

10. Investment and Tenure In Tribal Communities

Organization of Investment under Tribal Tenure

Contest over Property Rights

11. Rural Investment Under Landlord Tenure

Intensive Agriculture with Feudal Landlords

The Neglect of Investment under Colonial Rule

The Response of Price Incentives

12. Incentives To Investment Under Modern Tenure

Investment under Family Farming

Real Wages and Employment

Food Prices and Taxation of Agriculture

13. The Use of Industrial Input In Primitive Agriculture

14. Some Perspectives and Implications