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Subsistence agriculture
About: Subsistence agriculture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8069 publications have been published within this topic receiving 156876 citations. The topic is also known as: subsistence farming.
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TL;DR: The legacy of traditional agriculture demonstrates that the combination of stable and diverse production, internally generated and maintainable inputs, favourable energy input/output ratios, and articulation with both subsistence and market needs, comprises an effective approach to achieve food security.
Abstract: SUMMARY Today in Latin America there are still regions with microcosms of traditional farming systems, (i.e. in Mesoamerica, the Andean region, and the Amazon Basin) that have emerged over centuries of cultural and biological evolution. These are based on locally available resources and the cultivation of a diversity of crops and varieties in time and space, and have allowed traditional farmers to maximize harvest security and the multiple use of the landscape with limited environmental impact. Agro-biodiverse traditional agroecosystems represent a strategy which ensures diverse diets and income sources, stable production, minimum risk, efficient use of land resources, and enhanced ecological integrity. This legacy of traditional agriculture demonstrates that the combination of stable and diverse production, internally generated and maintainable inputs, favourable energy input/output ratios, and articulation with both subsistence and market needs, comprises an effective approach to achieve food security, ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine an overlooked low-income community that shares elements of subsistence contexts and reveal multiple ways in which a trailer park community residents experience and manage intertwined disadvantages, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization.
Abstract: Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence consumers are interconnected and co-constitutive; being disadvantaged in one domain often intersects with other disadvantages, contributing to an overall vulnerability within the market system. Drawing from the intersectionality paradigm, the authors examine an overlooked low-income community that shares elements of subsistence contexts. The findings reveal multiple ways in which a trailer park community residents experience and manage intertwined disadvantages. Several overlapping identity categories (i.e., socio-economic status, health status, and type of housing) vis-a-vis structural and relational dynamics are fleshed out. Implications for research on subsistence marketplaces and the usefulness of the intersectionality approach for macromarketing research are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a Ricardian model with several qualities of land is proposed, which is more differentiated than standard models assuming homogeneous land (or simply including land in "capital K").
Abstract: The reader may notice the similarity between the title of this paper and that of Arthur Lewis's classic paper.l It is intentional. Like Lewis, I shall discuss development under conditions of perfectly elastic factor supply. But land has been substituted in the title for labor because ours is a land surplus rather than a labor surplus economy. However, a land surplus economy is only interesting if there are several qualities of land, and this takes us to Ricardo's theory of differential rent.2 Moreover, the scope of this paper is narrowed down to colonial economic development and that means agricultural development; under old-style imperialism, development in the colonies was concentrated to agriculture with infrastructure, trading facilities, and administrative institutions. I stop short of dealing fully with industrialization but do discuss its preconditions in our particular setting, and I shall briefly touch upon the possible application to a neocolonial setting with multinationals operating in independent less developed countries (LDCs) with surplus land. A Ricardian model with several qualities of land is, of course, more differentiated than standard models assuming homogeneous land (or simply including land in "capital K"). Our aim, however, is not just to set up a model with n qualities of land rather than one. In associating particular qualities of land with particular social classes, we shall go a step further in differentiation. Thus we shall take it that subsistence agriculture by illiterate and uneducated native farmers takes place exclusively
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how, why and to what extent cooperatives are involved in integrating family farmers into the biodiesel chain and what this means for the social sustainability of biodiesel.
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